{"id":122392,"date":"2022-01-26T16:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122392"},"modified":"2022-01-26T16:31:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:31:44","slug":"letter-written-to-president-asking-permission-to-end-ones-life-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/26\/letter-written-to-president-asking-permission-to-end-ones-life-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter written to President asking permission to end one&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> A lawyer by the name of B.A.W. Abeywardena has sent a letter to all Members of Parliament, including the President and the Speaker, requesting permission from Parliament to end his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has stated that he arrived at such a decision following his dismissal from the Land Reforms Commission where he worked and his inability to repay the education loan from the people&#8217;s tax money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202201\/1643199180_9189417_hirunews.jpg\" alt=\"Letter+written+to+President+asking+permission+to+end+one%27s+life+%28Video%29+\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This letter was recently addressed to the Speaker of Parliament and all Members of Parliament under the headline &#8220;Seeking Parliament&#8217;s Approval for Suicide on Debt Consolidation&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0d9c\u0db1\u0dca\u0db1 \u0db4\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0db8\u0dda\u0db1\u0dca\u0dad\u0dd4 \u0d85\u0dc0\u0dc3\u0dbb\u0dba \u0db4\u0dad\u0db1 \u0d85\u0dc0\u0d82\u0d9a \u0dbb\u0dcf\u0da2\u0dca\u200d\u0dba \u0dc3\u0dda\u0dc0\u0d9a\u0dba\u0dcf - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-LMQtimQZvA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter also stated that the people of this country are heavily indebted to the taxpayers of this country due to their long education at the Universities of Peradeniya and Colombo and abroad, from the alphabet to the Advanced Level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter was received by the Hiru News team through a reliable source, and we sought the advice of Attorney-at-Law BAW Abeywardena <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News A lawyer by the name of B.A.W. Abeywardena has sent a letter to all Members of Parliament, including the President and the Speaker, requesting permission from Parliament to end his life. He has stated that he arrived at such a decision following his dismissal from the Land Reforms Commission where he worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122392","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=122392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}