{"id":38866,"date":"2021-11-13T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/13\/it-is-about-being-in-control-how-new-zealands-assisted-dying-law-is-bringing-comfort-to-one-family"},"modified":"2021-11-13T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:00:09","slug":"it-is-about-being-in-control-how-new-zealands-assisted-dying-law-is-bringing-comfort-to-one-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38866","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It is about being in control\u2019: how New Zealand\u2019s assisted dying law is bringing comfort to one family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Smith may be the first person in the country to qualify for the euthanasia<strong> <\/strong>procedure. He says it\u2019s a \u2018solution\u2019 and a \u2018choice\u2019<\/p>\n<p>When Steve Smith dies, he wants to be at home, in the arms of his beloved wife. He wants it to be a moment he chooses, before the aggressive tumour in his brain takes hold. He may get his wish.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who was diagnosed with glioblastoma in May, might be the first New Zealander to become eligible for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/assisted-suicide\">medically assisted death<\/a>, after the country\u2019s End of Life Choice law came into force this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/13\/it-is-about-being-in-control-how-new-zealands-assisted-dying-law-is-bringing-comfort-to-one-family\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Smith may be the first person in the country to qualify for the euthanasia procedure. He says it\u2019s a \u2018solution\u2019 and a \u2018choice\u2019When Steve Smith dies, he wants to be at home, in the arms of his beloved wife. He wants it to be a moment he chooses, b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1002,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-assisted-dying","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38867,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38866\/revisions\/38867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}