{"id":661,"date":"2005-11-23T23:35:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/11\/23\/euthanasia-tourism\/"},"modified":"2005-11-23T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2005-11-24T03:35:13","slug":"euthanasia-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/11\/23\/euthanasia-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthanasia Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7446'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"286\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/dedbot.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\">PHNOM PENH: The governor of a Cambodian<br \/>\n        province is suing an American internet cafe owner over a website that<br \/>\n        promotes a sleepy corner of the war-scarred southeast Asian nation as<br \/>\n        an ideal place for people who want to kill themselves. <\/p>\n<p>      Kampot governor Puth Chandarith said yesterday he had filed a suit against<br \/>\n      Californian Roger Graham for disseminating false information and defaming<br \/>\n      the province on his websites.<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;A lot of foreigners were scared to stay here when they learned about<br \/>\n      the website saying Kampot was a good place to commit suicide with no pain,&quot; he<br \/>\n      told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Still emerging from decades of war, including the Khmer<br \/>\n        Rouge genocide of the 1970s in which 1.7 million people died, Cambodia<br \/>\n        has no laws governing euthanasia, and diplomats say it does not rank<br \/>\n      as a high priority in one of Asia&#8217;s poorest nations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/stuff\/0,2106,3473169a12,00.html\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euthanasiaincambodia.com\/\">web<br \/>\n      site in question<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">People die in Cambodia. You know this to be true. Life<br \/>\n          is the way to death. Whether in Cambodia or some where else, we will<br \/>\n          all die. Whether by design or by chance, whether by choice or duress,<br \/>\n        sooner or later we will all die.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">You&#8217;ve just been diagnosed with Cancer. Now comes the<br \/>\n          time to answer the question you have always feared. What comes next? <\/p>\n<p>          If You are Considering Choosing the Time, Place, and Manner of Your End<br \/>\n        of Life Experience Then I Would Like to Recommend that You Visit Cambodia. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>We hear evryone is going there now, when all they<br \/>\n          used to talk about was Jonestown.&nbsp;Sounds like a growth industry,<br \/>\n        although they shouldn&#8217;t count on much repeat business&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euthanasiaincambodia.com\/\">Welcome to Euthanasia in Cambodia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH: The governor of a Cambodian province is suing an American internet cafe owner over a website that promotes a sleepy corner of the war-scarred southeast Asian nation as an ideal place for people who want to kill themselves. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/11\/23\/euthanasia-tourism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}