{"id":1981,"date":"2024-09-23T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/missouri-mom-gayle-hendrix-79-to-head-to-europe-for-assisted-suicide\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T00:00:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T00:00:24","slug":"missouri-mom-gayle-hendrix-79-to-head-to-europe-for-assisted-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/missouri-mom-gayle-hendrix-79-to-head-to-europe-for-assisted-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri mom Gayle Hendrix, 79, to head to Europe for assisted suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A terminally ill Missouri mom is heading to Switzerland to end her own life before her disease makes the trip impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Gayle Hendrix, a 79-year-old mother of two from Cape Girardeau, has struggled with a brutal combination of lupus and interstitial lung disease for the past four years. And although her friends say she doesn\u2019t seem like she\u2019s nearing the end, she says she knows otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friends will say, \u2018But you don\u2019t look or sound or act like somebody who is near death.\u2019 But I am dying, and that\u2019s what I want to control,\u201d the former&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/22\/us-news\/missouri-mom-gayle-hendrix-to-head-to-europe-for-assisted-suicide\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terminally ill Missouri mom is heading to Switzerland to end her own life before her disease makes the trip impossible. Gayle Hendrix, a 79-year-old mother of two from Cape Girardeau, has struggled with a brutal combination of lupus and interstitial lung disease for the past four years. And although her friends say she doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-schweiz","7":"category-switzerland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}