{"id":1372,"date":"2013-07-01T03:21:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T03:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2013-07-01T03:22:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T03:22:07","slug":"implied-consent-2nd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2013\/07\/implied-consent-2nd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Implied Consent: A Play on the Sanctity of Human Life by G. Stolyarov II \u2013 Second Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Implied Consent - A Play on the Sanctity of Human Life - Second Edition - by G. Stolyarov II\" src=\"http:\/\/rationalargumentator.com\/Implied_Consent_Cover_Thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Implied Consent \u2013 A Play on the Sanctity of Human Life \u2013 Second Edition \u2013 by G. Stolyarov II<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 95-year-old self-made multi-billionaire Quintus Grummond collapses from heart failure and enters a state of brain death. Meanwhile, his son Oswald makes plans for his father to never again awaken. Oswald hires a shyster lawyer who attempts to legitimize Grummond\u2019s termination by claiming that the multi-billionaire is no longer truly alive and that he has given Oswald \u201cimplied consent\u201d to make decisions regarding his fate. This play depicts a battle over a principle: the question of whether anybody has the right to terminate an innocent individual\u2019s life against his explicit wishes.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Second Edition of <i>Implied Consent<\/i>, with original and <a class=\"cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/rationalargumentator.com\/Implied%20Consent%20Cover.png\">freely downloadable cover art by Wendy Stolyarov<\/a>. This play was originally written in December 2004 and January 2005; the First Edition was published in May 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Edition of <i>Implied Consent <\/i>is available in PDF, MOBI, and EPUB formats.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"Implied Consent: A Play on the Sanctity of Human Life - Second Edition - G. Stolyarov II\" href=\"http:\/\/rationalargumentator.com\/Stolyarov_Implied_Consent_Edition_II.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #800000; text-decoration: underline;\">Download the PDF version<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"Implied Consent: A Play on the Sanctity of Human Life - Second Edition - G. 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Oswald hires a shyster lawyer who attempts to legitimize Grummond\u2019s termination by claiming that the multi-billionaire is no longer truly alive and that he has given Oswald \u201cimplied consent\u201d to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2013\/07\/implied-consent-2nd-edition\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,41,104],"tags":[467,147,40,2247,1761,103,521,2250,44,45,2248,2249,1583,2205],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-philosophy","category-transhumanism","tag-choice","tag-ethics","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-implied-consent","tag-lawsuit","tag-life","tag-life-extension","tag-life-support","tag-objectivism","tag-objectivist","tag-play","tag-story","tag-transhumanist","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}