{"id":4929,"date":"2020-05-06T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T02:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.tvndy.ca\/faq\/these-suicide-requests-do-not-arise-from-mental-illness-these-are-fully-informed-competent-people-who-are-not-under-anyones-control-or-influence-they-are-making-a-rational-choice-to-avoid-2\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:14:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:14:44","slug":"these-suicide-requests-do-not-arise-from-mental-illness-these-are-fully-informed-competent-people-who-are-not-under-anyones-control-or-influence-they-are-making-a-rational-choice-to-avoid-2","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/faq\/these-suicide-requests-do-not-arise-from-mental-illness-these-are-fully-informed-competent-people-who-are-not-under-anyones-control-or-influence-they-are-making-a-rational-choice-to-avoid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"6. Won\u2019t legalizing and regulating assisted suicide reduce the number of wrongful deaths?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no evidence to show this has happened, or will happen. If we\u2019ve learned anything, it\u2019s that abuses continue where assisted suicide is legal. We\u2019ve also seen that the eligibility criteria are applied more and more loosely, as in the case of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/14\/marc-eddy-verbessem-belgium-euthanasia_n_2472320.html\">Marc and Eddy Verbessem<\/a>\u00a0in Belgium. [Source: Huffington Post] That is called a \u201cslippery slope.\u201d<\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","faq_groups":[],"class_list":["post-4929","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faqs\/4929","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=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvndy.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq_groups?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}