The Archie Battersbee Case. And before that the Alfie Evans’ Case.
The issue for me is can they take Archie out of the hospital.
With all the publicity a thought I have– couldn’t they ‘crowd fund’ making a room in their home into a sort of intensive care unit to keep him alive.
But I suspect it will be like the Alfie Evans’ case. Where the court will not allow the parents to take the child because (they have decided) it would be too much for his body.
Or statements like ‘it is burdensome for him’, ‘contrary to human dignity’.
I accept that is a position that one can justifiably adopt.
Cut to the chase- Holly Dance Archie’s mother just keeps asking for more time. She says that the decision by the hospital to go to court to get his life support turned off was ‘within a month’
‘Within a month! Hamlet says exasperatedly when he finds out his mother has married his uncle within a month of his Father’s death.
And Archie’s mother sounds exasperated at the haste with which the hospital went to the court to have the life support for her son turned off.
That’s not long enough. Archie’s mum says that she feels he is ‘still there’ and he squeezes her hand.
You know there are many many examples of people waking up from comas. Sometimes after many years.
Its a terrible situation..
Its for the Doctors to decide. Mmm..
The family it seems cannot make rational decisions because they are too ’emotionally involved’ the argument goes.
The doctors decide and the judges confirm it in.law.
Is that right? I remember there were ‘rescue attempts’ by the friends and family in the Alfie Evans’ case. Police positioned outside the hospital when it was thought he could be ‘sprung’.
Mmm…as I say I do take seriously those arguments that all the feeding tubes and wires could be causing undue distress.
I am not for keeping people alive at all costs.
Its just those 2 things I dont like. The unseemly rush to end life support. And this other thing where the parents are physically not allowed to take their children elsewhere (some medical setting) to get treatment or simply to keep them alive in the hope they wake up. The parents should have the last word in my opinion.
Nominated by: Miles Plastic
And on the same subject but different pov, here’s one from cuntator
Hollie Dance (aka Lisa Pittaway) Mother of Archie Battersbeel
I don’t know who’s worse, this foul-mouthed Essex slut, or the presumably legal-aid funded lawyers, who kept challenging the clever-docs at the prestigious Royal London Hospital with regard to turning off the ventilator for her hapless brain-dead 12 year old son who somehow managed to hang himself.
Needless to say the BBC gave her plenty of coverage, portraying her as the devoted mother. Somehow they forgot to mention her previous life as a stripper with a history of violence.
Details of her past are well documented in the link below.
