{"id":179995,"date":"2021-10-10T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T13:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/death-interrupted-martha-sep-lveda-will-no-longer-be-colombia-s-first-non-terminal-patient-to-die-from-euthanasia"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:38:53","slug":"death-interrupted-martha-sep-lveda-will-no-longer-be-colombia-s-first-non-terminal-patient-to-die-from-euthanasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/death-interrupted-martha-sep-lveda-will-no-longer-be-colombia-s-first-non-terminal-patient-to-die-from-euthanasia","title":{"rendered":"Death, interrupted: Martha Sep&#250;lveda will no longer be Colombia&#8217;s first non-terminal patient to die from euthanasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staring death in the eye, Martha Sep&#250;lveda appeared to be the picture of unabashed ebullience. During a recent interview with Noticias Caracol &#8217;s Juan David Laverde, the 51-year-old &#8211; who was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) nearly three years ago &#8211; momentarily forgot about her crippling condition, joked alongside her son and threw back a few beers. &#8220;I&#8217;m in good spirits,&#8221; she told the outlet. &#8220;I&#8217;m at peace since they authorized the procedure; I laugh more, get better sleep.&#8221; That procedure was euthanasia. Following a Colombian court&#8217;s expansion of euthanasia to include non-terminal patients over the summer, Ms Sep&#250;lveda submitted a request for assisted death, which was granted a week later. Having finalised all the details, down to the date and exact time she was to go (she chose this Sunday, given her religious background), local health authorities announced on Saturday they reconsidered their ruling and Ms Sep&#250;lveda&#8217;s request had been overturned. Included in their reasoning, the organisation alluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staring death in the eye, Martha Sep&#250;lveda appeared to be the picture of unabashed ebullience. During a recent interview with Noticias Caracol&#8217;s Juan David Laverde, the 51-year-old &#8211; who was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101],"tags":[59,102],"class_list":["post-179995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-health","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}