{"id":6278,"date":"2016-02-01T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/news\/in-new-zealand-the-health-select-committee-of-the-parliament-has-received-a-petition-of-hon-maryan-street-and-8974-others-requesting-that-the-house-of-representatives-investigate-fully-publ\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:52:53","slug":"in-new-zealand-the-health-select-committee-of-the-parliament-has-received-a-petition-of-hon-maryan-street-and-8974-others-requesting-that-the-house-of-representatives-investigate-fully-publ","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/news\/in-new-zealand-the-health-select-committee-of-the-parliament-has-received-a-petition-of-hon-maryan-street-and-8974-others-requesting-that-the-house-of-representatives-investigate-fully-publ\/","title":{"rendered":"In New Zealand, the Health Select Committee of the Parliament has received a petition of Hon Maryan Street and 8,974 others requesting \u201cThat the House of Representatives investigate fully public attitudes towards the introduction of legislation which would permit medically-assisted dying in the event of a terminal illness or an irreversible condition which makes life unbearable.\u201d An investigation into ending one\u2019s life in New Zealand was undertaken and public submissions were called on this petition, no. 2014\/18."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In New Zealand, the Health Select Committee of the Parliament has received a petition of Hon Maryan Street and 8,974 others requesting \u201cThat the House of Representatives investigate fully public attitudes towards the introduction of legislation which would permit medically-assisted dying in the event of a terminal illness or an irreversible condition which makes life unbearable.\u201d An investigation into ending one\u2019s life in New Zealand was undertaken and public submissions were called on this petition, no. 2014\/18.<\/p>\n<p>June 2015 \u2013 February 2016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.nz\/en\/pb\/sc\/make-a-submission\/document\/0SCHE_SCF_51DBHOH_PET63268_1\/petition-of-hon-maryan-street-and-8-974-others\" target=\"_blank\">Website of the New Zealand Parliament (Link)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/images\/stories\/pdf\/diginpublic\/stellungnahme-investigation-into-ending-ones-life-in-nz-30012016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Submission by DIGNITAS &#8211; To live with dignity &#8211; To die with dignity (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New Zealand, the Health Select Committee of the Parliament has received a petition of Hon Maryan Street and 8,974 others requesting \u201cThat the House of Representatives investigate fully public attitudes towards the introduction of legislation which would permit medically-assisted dying in the event of a terminal illness or an irreversible condition which makes life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-6278","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/6278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}