{"id":4921,"date":"2020-05-14T22:05:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.tvndy.ca\/faq\/whats-the-difference-between-withholding-or-withdrawal-of-treatment-and-assisted-suicide-or-euthanasia-arent-they-the-same-thing\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:50:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:50:30","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-withholding-or-withdrawal-of-treatment-and-assisted-suicide-or-euthanasia-arent-they-the-same-thing","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/faq\/whats-the-difference-between-withholding-or-withdrawal-of-treatment-and-assisted-suicide-or-euthanasia-arent-they-the-same-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"14. What\u2019s the difference between withholding or withdrawal of treatment, and assisted suicide or euthanasia? Aren\u2019t they the same thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several important differences.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When a person asks for medical treatment to be taken away (withdrawn) or not given (withheld) they are saying they don\u2019t want to be touched, or want that \u201ctouching\u201d to stop.\u00a0 The right not to be touched has been recognized by many courts as a most basic and important right.<\/li>\n<li>When a person asks for assisted suicide or euthanasia, they are saying they want something done to them.\u00a0 People can ask for a medical treatment, but there is no charter right to any and every medical treatment they ask for.<\/li>\n<li>Stopping a medical treatment doesn\u2019t always mean the person will die, or that death is intended.\u00a0 The person\u2019s condition could get better, and the person still has the chance to change her mind.\u00a0 Assisted suicide and euthanasia are intended to make the person die, and that is the most likely outcome because a poison is added to the person\u2019s medical problems in order to kill her.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n   ","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","faq_groups":[],"class_list":["post-4921","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/4921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_groups?post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}