{"id":111096,"date":"2021-01-28T16:46:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111096"},"modified":"2021-01-28T16:46:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:46:45","slug":"disposal-of-dead-bodies-of-covid-19-victims-and-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/01\/28\/disposal-of-dead-bodies-of-covid-19-victims-and-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"DISPOSAL OF DEAD BODIES OF COVID 19 VICTIMS AND \u2018HUMAN RIGHTS\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Palitha Mapatuna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Among certain individuals, confusion seems to be evident\nwith regard to disposal of dead bodies of Covid 19 victims and what they call\n\u2018human rights\u2019. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the issue here seems to be&nbsp;<em>not<\/em>&nbsp;a\nquestion of \u2018human rights\u2019, but the&nbsp;<em>most pruden<\/em>t form of disposal\nof these dead bodies, given the uncertainties regarding the survival of the\nspecific virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this regard, the&nbsp;<em>deciding <\/em>factor&nbsp;for any\nauthority with a proper sense of responsibility seems necessarily to be the\nwelfare of&nbsp;<em>all <\/em>and not narrow-visioned considerations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palitha Mapatuna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palitha Mapatuna Among certain individuals, confusion seems to be evident with regard to disposal of dead bodies of Covid 19 victims and what they call \u2018human rights\u2019. &nbsp; However, the issue here seems to be&nbsp;not&nbsp;a question of \u2018human rights\u2019, but the&nbsp;most prudent form of disposal of these dead bodies, given the uncertainties regarding the survival [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}