{"id":2035,"date":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2012\/01\/12\/that-which-does-not-kill-us-makes-us-stronger-nietzsche-how-valid-is-this-statement-with-reference-to-the-topic-of-euthanasia\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"that-which-does-not-kill-us-makes-us-stronger-nietzsche-how-valid-is-this-statement-with-reference-to-the-topic-of-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2012\/01\/12\/that-which-does-not-kill-us-makes-us-stronger-nietzsche-how-valid-is-this-statement-with-reference-to-the-topic-of-euthanasia\/","title":{"rendered":"That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes Us Stronger &#8211; Nietzsche. How Valid is This Statement with Reference to the Topic of Euthanasia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHuman decency is not derived from religion, it precedes it\u201d- Christopher Hitchens <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause to take away a man\u2019s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person\u201d. \u2013 Madeleine L\u2019Engle <\/p>\n<p>In this project I have decided to explore the extremely controversial topic of Euthanasia with reference to one of the most polemic figures concerning Human Rights and Religion, Christopher Hitchens. I hope to uncover a fresh and modern perspective concerning whether Euthanasia is morally permissible as well as exploring the thoughts of those who argue for and against this topic. I hope to uncover whether what doesn\u2019t kill you does in fact make you stronger or whether accepting a persons wish to end their life prematurely is in fact what makes them stronger\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night\u201d-Nietzsche<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesca Leat, 2012, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,22,123],"tags":[600,601,6],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-592","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-euthanasia","tag-hitchens","tag-nietzsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}