{"id":13136,"date":"2017-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/local-pollie-promises-euthanasia-law-for-sa-after-watching-his-mum-die\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T00:00:00","slug":"local-pollie-promises-euthanasia-law-for-sa-after-watching-his-mum-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/local-pollie-promises-euthanasia-law-for-sa-after-watching-his-mum-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Pollie Promises Euthanasia Law For SA After Watching His Mum Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>After Victoria\u2019s passing of Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation, Kyam Maher MLC has vowed to fight for a similar law in SA, sharing the personal story of his mother\u2019s \u201chorrendous\u201d passing.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"700\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kyam-post.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI\u2019ve always supported this but now I\u2019m even more determined,\u201d Maher wrote in an emotional Facebook post following the news from Victoria.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe unnecessary and unwanted pain and loss of dignity my mum suffered at the end of her battle with pancreatic cancer in August was the most horrendous thing I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cShe was then forced to slowly waste away, drifting in and out of consciousness \u2013 often in half aware states of panic as the medication, food and water was stopped and her body finally did what her mind had already painstakingly decided to do.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cMy resolve to have Voluntary Euthanasia laws passed in South Australia next year hasn\u2019t diminished.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FKyamMaherMLC%2Fposts%2F935356343288910&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"636\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Victoria\u2019s passing of Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation, Kyam Maher MLC has vowed to fight for a similar law in SA, sharing the personal story of his mother\u2019s \u201chorrendous\u201d passing. \u201cI\u2019ve always supported this but now I\u2019m even more determined,\u201d Maher wrote in an emotional Facebook post following the news from Victoria. \u201cThe unnecessary and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-13136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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