{"id":3363,"date":"2011-06-08T23:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.92.17.21\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2011-06-08T23:15:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:15:57","slug":"daily-kaddish-jack-kevorkian-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"daily kaddish: for jack kevorkian, md"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[powerpress]<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Jack Kevorkian\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2011\/06\/04\/us\/KEVORKIAN\/KEVORKIAN-articleInline.jpg?resize=190%2C211\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"211\" \/>Last Friday, Dr <a title=\"New York Times obituary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/04\/us\/04kevorkian.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Kevorkian died at age 83<\/a> of natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kevorkian helped people die on their own terms, of so-called &#8220;assisted suicide&#8221; rather than hideously drawn-out battles with painful diseases, and for his compassion he was rewarded with criminal trials and jail time.<\/p>\n<p>When our critters are suffering, we put them out of their misery and help them make a graceful exit, but we don&#8217;t display the same compassion for our fellow humans.<\/p>\n<p>Kevorkian did.<\/p>\n<p>A Kaddish for Dr Death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Dr Jack Kevorkian died at age 83 of natural causes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,253],"tags":[582,235,237,583],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaddish-in-two-part-harmony","category-podcasts","tag-assisted-suicide","tag-compassion","tag-euthanasia","tag-jack-kevorkian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}