{"id":7617,"date":"2019-09-30T04:20:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/is-death-optional\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:20:22","slug":"is-death-optional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/is-death-optional\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Death Optional?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martine Rothblatt is the founder of a biotech firm called United Therapeutics, which intends to grow new organs from people\u2019s DNA.  \u201cClearly, it is possible, through technology, to make death optional,\u201d Rothblatt said.  \u201cIt\u2019s  enormously  gratifying to have the epitome of the establishment, the head of the National Academy of Medicine, say, \u2018We, too, choose to make death optional!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>From Tad Friend&#8217;s article, &#8220;The God Pill.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martine Rothblatt is the founder of a biotech firm called United Therapeutics, which intends to grow new organs from people\u2019s DNA. \u201cClearly, it is possible, through technology, to make death optional,\u201d Rothblatt said. \u201cIt\u2019s enormously gratifying to have the epitome of the establishment, the head of the National Academy of Medicine, say, \u2018We, too, choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312,577,5153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}