{"id":2873,"date":"2012-01-23T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2012-01-23T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:59:36","slug":"mfdj012312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2873","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For January 23, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Well-Timed Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Timing played an important role in the death of English King George V (1865-1936).  The announcement of his impending demise was recorded in the famous bulletin, &#8216;The life of the King is moving peacefully to its close,&#8217; written on the back of a menu by his doctor, Lord Dawson.  In 1968 it was revealed by Dawson&#8217;s biographer, Francis Watson, that the doctor had taken it upon himself to accelerate death with a lethal mixture of morphine and cocaine injected into the king&#8217;s jugular vein.  Dawson had resorted to euthanasia not for the comfort of the king &#8211; since he was already comatose &#8211; but so as not further to exhaust the assembled onlookers.  A second reason was also given: Dawson wished the announcement of George&#8217;s death to appear in the morning papers; laggardliness on the king&#8217;s part ran the risk of the news appearing less &#8216;appropriately&#8217; in the &#8216;evening journals&#8217;.  <\/p>\n<p>Culled from: Death: A History Of Man&#8217;s Obsessions and Fears by Robert Wilkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Well-Timed Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Timing played an important role in the death of English King George V (1865-1936). The announcement of his impending demise was recorded in the famous bulletin, &#8216;The life of the King is moving peacefully to its close,&#8217; written on the back of a menu by his doctor, Lord Dawson. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}