{"id":6093,"date":"2015-02-12T18:03:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T02:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2018-03-05T19:46:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T03:46:05","slug":"dying-dutch-euthanasia-spreads-across-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6093","title":{"rendered":"Dying Dutch: Euthanasia Spreads Across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Newsweek<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Winston Ross<\/p>\n<p>In one of the last photographs my family took of my grandmother, she looks as if she&#8217;s been in a fistfight. Jean Bass Tinsley is lying in a hospital bed in Athens, Georgia, wearing a turquoise button-up shirt and staring blankly at the camera. A bandage obscures her fractured skull, along with the bridge of her bloodied nose. She is 91 years old.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother essentially did this to herself. In June 2013, she fell out of her wheelchair headfirst, after ignoring her caregivers&#8217; warnings not to get out of bed without help. Earlier that year, she&#8217;d broken both of her hips, in separate falls. Before that, her pelvis-all while trying to do what for most of her life she&#8217;d managed just fine on her own: walk.<\/p>\n<p>In her last year, dementia crept into my grandmother&#8217;s mind. The staff at her long-term-care facility plotted ways to protect her from herself. It&#8217;s against the law in Georgia to restrain patients in such facilities, so they lowered her bed to the floor and put a pad down next to it. They even installed an alarm that went off if she left her mattress. My grandmother disabled the alarm, moved the pad and freed herself, repeatedly. In the end, she was both too weak and too strong. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2015\/02\/20\/choosing-die-netherlands-euthanasia-debate-306223.html\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek Winston Ross In one of the last photographs my family took of my grandmother, she looks as if she&#8217;s been in a fistfight. Jean Bass Tinsley is lying in a hospital bed in Athens, Georgia, wearing a turquoise button-up shirt and staring blankly at the camera. A bandage obscures her fractured skull, along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6093\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dying Dutch: Euthanasia Spreads Across Europe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,402,32,2179,162,403,1301,1093,9,25,757,28],"tags":[1982,1980,1976,1406,1978,1977,2871,1972,1951,1973,1971,1975,1974,1979,265,1981,1950,515,360,362,1970],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assisted-suicide","category-belgium","category-canada","category-european-union","category-euthanasia","category-france","category-luxembourg","category-netherlands","category-news","category-switzerland","category-united-kingdom","category-usa","tag-atul-gawande","tag-barbara-wagner","tag-bert-keizer","tag-brittany-maynard","tag-diane-coleman","tag-eduard-verhagen","tag-ezekiel-j-emanuel","tag-fione-zonneveld","tag-gerbert-van-loenen","tag-jack-kevorkian","tag-jannie-willemsen","tag-montana","tag-new-mexico","tag-not-dead-yet","tag-oregon","tag-randy-stroup","tag-theo-boer","tag-vermont","tag-washington-state","tag-wesley-j-smith","tag-winston-ross"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Dying Dutch: Euthanasia Spreads Across Europe - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6093\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dying Dutch: Euthanasia Spreads Across Europe - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Newsweek Winston Ross In one of the last photographs my family took of my grandmother, she looks as if she&#8217;s been in a fistfight. 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