{"id":803,"date":"2008-01-28T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2008\/01\/28\/a-good-death-how-do-we-measure-the-value-of-a-life"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T10:57:00","slug":"a-good-death-how-do-we-measure-the-value-of-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2008\/01\/28\/a-good-death-how-do-we-measure-the-value-of-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Death &#8211; how do we measure the value of &#8216;a life&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/unfspb.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/22\/a-good-death\/#more-336\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/unfspb.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/22\/a-good-death\/#more-336   <\/a>there is an interesting discussion that arises out of the death of the actor<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7203797.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Heath Ledger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His death is often described in media reports as a &#8216;tragedy&#8217; &#8211; but how do we balance the value of a young life lost and an old life? Is the length the aspect that prevents us from seeing a death as tragic?<\/p>\n<p>Does the author at UNFSB really think that Heath&#8217;s death was a &#8216;good&#8217; one? Or is the idea of a short, wonderful life being better than a long, but maybe bland one a useful corrective to our usual view &#8211; or a naive and overly-romantic notion?<\/p>\n<p>dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at http:\/\/unfspb.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/22\/a-good-death\/#more-336 there is an interesting discussion that arises out of the death of the actor Heath Ledger. His death is often described in media reports as a &#8216;tragedy&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death","category-good"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}