{"id":3313,"date":"2007-09-18T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/09\/18\/california-death-squads\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T09:45:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T14:45:27","slug":"california-death-squads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/09\/california-death-squads\/","title":{"rendered":"California death squads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">SACRAMENTO \ufffd Physician-assisted suicide advocates \ufffd unable to pass legislation and short on cash to push a statewide ballot initiative \ufffd will announce today the creation of a consultation service to offer information to the terminally ill and even provide volunteers for those who would like someone to be present when committing suicide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Volunteers will neither provide nor administer the means for aid in dying,&#8221; said the Rev. John Brooke, a United Church of Christ minister from Cotati and one of the organizers of the new End of Life Consultation Service. &#8220;Clients will obtain and self-administer these means. We will not break or defy the law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Randy Thomasson, president of the Campaign for Children and Families, part of an opposition coalition, said it sounded like the formation of &#8220;California death squads&#8221; to him.<\/p>\n<p>Thomasson, pointing to laws against suicide, called for an investigation by authorities once the consultation service begins.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the new End of Life Consultation Service say they will advise the terminally ill on how to better access pain treatment and end-of-life care. Clergy and trained volunteer counselors also will advise the terminally ill against violent suicide, instead helping identify a path to a peaceful death.<\/p>\n<p>A counselor will remain present to comfort a terminally ill person taking their own life, if that person wishes, program representatives said. <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/timesstar\/localnews\/ci_6926252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" border=\"0\" height=\"26\" width=\"76\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO \ufffd Physician-assisted suicide advocates \ufffd unable to pass legislation and short on cash to push a statewide ballot initiative \ufffd will announce today the creation of a consultation service&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}