{"id":9767,"date":"2011-06-11T12:02:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T16:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2011-06-11T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T16:02:26","slug":"pterry-plans-his-own-end-in-his-own-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/06\/11\/pterry-plans-his-own-end-in-his-own-time\/","title":{"rendered":"PTerry plans his own end, in his own time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short of a miracle cure for Alzheimer&#8217;s, Terry Pratchett outlines how he plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2011\/06\/11\/author-pratchett-plans-his-own-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">commit suicide<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Terry Pratchett, a 62-year-old British writer of comic fantasy novels who was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s in 2007, says he intends to commit suicide, sitting in a lawn chair outside his country home, listening to the classical church music of Thomas Tallis on his iPod, with a glass of brandy in one hand and a potion of life-ending pills in the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps, a second brandy, if there is time,\u201d the euthanasia and assisted-suicide advocate quips.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd since this is England, I had better add, \u2018If wet, in the library.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Mr. Pratchett will play host to a real-life suicide when BBC2 television airs a controversial documentary in which he helps a 71-year-old man with motor neurone disease kill himself in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short of a miracle cure for Alzheimer&#8217;s, Terry Pratchett outlines how he plans to commit suicide: Terry Pratchett, a 62-year-old British writer of comic fantasy novels who was diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s in 2007, says he intends to commit suicide, sitting in a lawn chair outside his country home, listening to the classical church music of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,28],"tags":[496,632],"class_list":["post-9767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-liberty","category-media","tag-euthanasia","tag-terrypratchett"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2xx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}