‘We will fight to the end’: Archie Battersbee’s parents to appeal decision to end life-support treatment

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  1. >”If tomorrow’s the last day then so be it, but we will be applying to the Supreme Court.”

    >The judges have refused to grant permission to appeal against their ruling at the Supreme Court.

    So how’s this going to work then? Can they just apply to the supreme court even if they don’t have permission?

  2. >”Over in the UK it’s… execution of your child and that’s it. It’s disgusting, it’s a let-down.”

    And with that kind of rhetoric my empathy is gone for this woman.

  3. You cannot kill/ execute, call it what you will, someone who is already dead. A ventilator is pushing air into dead lungs, giving a semblance of life. Not only is he dead, his body is now decaying.

  4. You cannot kill/ execute, call it what you will, someone who is already dead. A ventilator is pushing air into dead lungs, giving a semblance of life. Not only is he dead, his body is now decaying.

  5. Guys stop posting about this. The sub doesn’t need several updates a day. We’ve got the same picture of this boy 3 times on the front page.

  6. Wouldn’t the family’s efforts be better served trying to stop other kids from doing whatever stunt it was that killed their son?

  7. They need some serious grief counselling. Well, they needed it a few weeks ago but definitely now. Maybe we all need to be talking more openly about death and how to cope when a loved one gets to the end. So it doesn’t end up like this. :/

  8. What’s the reason in taking a child off life support? There’s people who’ve been in a coma for decades and woken up.

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