{"id":31136,"date":"2019-01-30T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31136"},"modified":"2019-01-30T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T10:22:15","slug":"tens-of-thousands-refuse-extension-of-life-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31136","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands refuse &#8216;extension of life&#8217; in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"84.0213640099\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tens of thousands of terminally ill patients decided to die without life-saving medical assistance over the past year after a new that allowed &#8220;dying with dignity&#8221; came into effect, a news report said\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>The law went into effect on February 4 last year, allowing patients to sign up to forgo a &#8220;meaningless extension of life&#8221; by stopping or postponing four life-sustaining treatments, the Yonhap news agency reported. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>It took nearly two decades of national debate before the South Korean National Assembly passed the so-called &#8220;dying-well&#8221; law. The issue drew public attention after two doctors were convicted of assisted murder and given suspended prison terms in 1997 for ending the life of a brain-damaged patient at the request of his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Since the law passed,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.yna.co.kr\/view\/AEN20190130002300320?section=search\" target=\"_blank\">35,431 patients opted to die<\/a> without receiving any further medical treatment, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Additionally, data also showed about 16,000 terminally ill patients have registered with authorities to opt out of receiving further life-saving medical assistance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span>Another 113,000 people sent a letter of intent to hospitals and public organisations to stop receiving treatment once they become terminally ill.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of terminally ill patients decided to die without life-saving medical assistance over the past year after a new that allowed &#8220;dying with dignity&#8221; came into effect, a news report said\u00a0on Wednesday. The law went into effect on February 4 last year, allowing patients to sign up to forgo a &#8220;meaningless extension of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}