{"id":7997,"date":"2010-02-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/suicide-tourism\/"},"modified":"2010-02-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T12:00:00","slug":"suicide-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/suicide-tourism.php","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can you do if you want help committing suicide, but you live in a state (all but Oregon) or country where assisted suicide is illegal?&nbsp; Travel to <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703414504575001363599545120.html\">Switzerland<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>From the start, Mr. Minelli [founder of Dignitas] has kicked up controversy for his willingness to help foreigners die. Most groups in Switzerland don't assist foreigners. Dignitas only helps foreigners. The number of foreigners Dignitas helps each year&mdash;132 in 2007, compared to 91 in 2003&mdash;has increasingly left the Swiss uncomfortable with the country's growing reputation for \"suicide tourism.\" As of the end of last year, Dignitas had helped a total of 1,046 people to commit suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>I do not see a convincing reason for bans on assisted suicide.&nbsp; Informed consent rules&nbsp;are reasonable, but that seems sufficient to me.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/344cf_6379328854053402400-7293154373455559839?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you do if you want help committing suicide, but you live in a state (all but Oregon) or country where assisted suicide is illegal?&nbsp; Travel to Switzerland:From the start, Mr. Minelli [founder of Dignitas] has kicked up controversy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/suicide-tourism.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}