{"id":2600,"date":"2009-08-31T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2009-08-31T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T03:11:08","slug":"slouching-toward-death-with-a-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/slouching-toward-death-with-a-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Slouching toward death (with a push)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/01\/us\/01montana.html\">Montana Court to Rule on Assisted Suicide Case<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Robert Baxter was by all accounts a tough man. Even in the end, last year, as lymphocytic leukemia was killing him, Mr. Baxter, a 76-year-old retired truck driver from Billings, Mont., fought on. But by then he was struggling not for life, but for the right to die with help from his doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe yearned for death,\u201d his daughter, Roberta King, said in a court affidavit describing her father\u2019s final agonized months.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in death, Mr. Baxter is at the center of a right-to-die debate that could make Montana the first state in the country to declare that medical aid in dying is a protected right under a state constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana Court to Rule on Assisted Suicide Case: Robert Baxter was by all accounts a tough man. Even in the end, last year, as lymphocytic leukemia was killing him, Mr. Baxter, a 76-year-old retired truck driver from Billings, Mont., fought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/slouching-toward-death-with-a-push\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[324,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}