{"id":3902,"date":"2020-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/a-note-by-dignitas-9\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:32:59","slug":"ireland-the-vote-on-assisted-dying-is-a-vote-on-a-human-right","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/ireland-the-vote-on-assisted-dying-is-a-vote-on-a-human-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland: The vote on assisted dying is a vote on a human right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">DIGNITAS\u00a0welcomes the move by TD Gino Kenny for the D\u00e1il to reconsider a Dying with Dignity Bill. The freedom to decide on the time and manner of one\u2019s own end in life is a human right, and suffering Irish people should be allowed the choice of ending their suffering and life in a legal, safe and self-determined manner at home. A rising number of states have legalised assisted dying, and their experiences prove the fearmongers wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-02102020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIGNITAS\u00a0welcomes the move by TD Gino Kenny for the D\u00e1il to reconsider a Dying with Dignity Bill. The freedom to decide on the time and manner of one\u2019s own end in life is a human right, and suffering Irish people should be allowed the choice of ending their suffering and life in a legal, safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[587,499],"class_list":["post-3902","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-ireland","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3902","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=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}