{"id":174019,"date":"2026-07-28T05:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=174019"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:20:03","slug":"advance-decisions-can-ease-end-for-terminally-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/?p=174019","title":{"rendered":"Advance decisions &#8216;can ease end for terminally ill&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newsstatic.rthk.hk\/images\/mfile_1863893_1_M_20260727115443.jpg\" alt=\"news image\"><br \/>Terminally-ill patients are encouraged to discuss care planning for the later stages of their life with loved ones and whether or not they should refuse resuscitation or life-sustaining treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The call from the Hospital Authority came as patients are set to be allowed to make such decisions ahead of time once the Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Ordinance comes into effect on Friday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.rthk.hk\/rthk\/en\/component\/k2\/1863893-20260727.htm\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#38405;&#35835;&#26356;&#22810;&#65288;Read More&#65289;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terminally-ill patients are encouraged to discuss care  [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-localnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gocpmall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}