{"id":3901,"date":"2020-11-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/a-note-by-dignitas-8\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:43:43","slug":"world-right-to-die-day-2020-lawmakers-should-respect-their-citizens-end-of-life-decisions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/world-right-to-die-day-2020-lawmakers-should-respect-their-citizens-end-of-life-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"World Right to Die Day 2020: Lawmakers should respect their citizens\u2019 end-of-life decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While assisted dying has been legalised in several countries in recent years and initiatives to do so are underway in others, opponents keep spreading myths and trying to create fears about assisted dying. Reality proves them wrong. It is time for lawmakers everywhere to respect their citizens\u2019 wishes regarding freedom of choice and self-determination in end-of-life decisions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a style=\"text-align: justify;\" href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-02112020-e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While assisted dying has been legalised in several countries in recent years and initiatives to do so are underway in others, opponents keep spreading myths and trying to create fears about assisted dying. Reality proves them wrong. It is time for lawmakers everywhere to respect their citizens\u2019 wishes regarding freedom of choice and self-determination in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[41,499],"class_list":["post-3901","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-international-en","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}