{"id":6371,"date":"2019-01-30T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.5.12\/nnn\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T06:42:21","slug":"tens-of-thousands-opt-to-die-with-dignity-after-passage-of-law-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6371","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands opt to die with dignity after passage of law: Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>SEOUL, Jan\u00a030 (NNN-BERNAMA-YONHAP)\u00a0\u00a0&#8212; More than 35,000 terminally ill patients have chosen to forgo life-prolonging treatment since South Korea <g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">legalised<\/g> the right to die with dignity, Yonhap news agency reported, quoting\u00a0government data Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law went into effect on Feb&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of patients who opted to die without receiving any further medical treatment between Feb&nbsp;4 last year and Jan&nbsp;28 this year came to 35,431.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Male patients stood at 21,291, with the remainder being women. Nearly 68 per cent of the total refused life-prolonging treatments, with consent from at least two family members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four treatments &#8212; cardiopulmonary resuscitation, artificial ventilation, hemodialysis and anti-cancer drug administration &#8212; are only meant to prolong lives without treatment purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postponing life-sustaining treatments means that terminally ill patients don&#8217;t receive any treatment from the start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data also showed slightly over 16,000 terminally ill patients have so far registered with authorities to die with dignity without receiving further treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 113,000 people have registered a letter of intent with relevant hospitals and public organisations to stop receiving treatment once they became terminally ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA-YONHAP <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Jan\u00a030 (NNN-BERNAMA-YONHAP)\u00a0\u00a0&#8212; More than 35,000 terminally ill patients have chosen to forgo life-prolonging treatment since South Korea legalised the right to die with dignity, Yonhap news agency reported, quoting\u00a0government data Wednesday. The law went into effect on Feb&nbsp;4 last year, allowing patients to sign up to forgo a &#8220;meaningless extension of life&#8221; by stopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}