{"id":3923,"date":"2017-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/press-release-by-dignitas-7\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T13:55:38","slug":"dignitas-freedom-of-choice-and-self-determination-in-life-and-at-lifes-end","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/news\/dignitas-freedom-of-choice-and-self-determination-in-life-and-at-lifes-end\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGNITAS: Freedom of choice and self-determination in life and at life\u2019s end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>21 August 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In many countries, assisted suicide is still prohibited \u2013 although a majority of the population supports it. DIGNITAS enables its members\u2019 self-determination and freedom of choice through comprehensive advisory work. Through its international legal work, it also contributes to opening up the public debate on end-of-life issues and having them discussed on the political and legislative level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/stories\/pdf\/medienmitteilung-21082017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\">media release (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 August 2017 In many countries, assisted suicide is still prohibited \u2013 although a majority of the population supports it. DIGNITAS enables its members\u2019 self-determination and freedom of choice through comprehensive advisory work. Through its international legal work, it also contributes to opening up the public debate on end-of-life issues and having them discussed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[540,499],"class_list":["post-3923","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","tag-dignitas-en","tag-media-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3923","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=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dignitas.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}