If you live in the USA, this has Terri Schiavo-energy all around. It’s different, I know. Terri was alive and braindead. This infant is gonna die. The court is sparing the infant pain.

But why would you keep a child alive to suffer? It’s like Terri in that the parents refuse to think about anyone other than themselves. That’s just cruel / terrible / bad.

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    This has happened a couple times in the UK. It’s a lot different than the USA for a few reasons, one being the NHS isn’t gonna waste money on someone who has like a .0001% chance of recovery (and why should they?).

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      These decisions aren’t about the cost of care, they’re about the interests of the individual and, in this case, not prolonging suffering unnecessarily.

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      This issue is coming up that it won’t be NHS resources being used because the baby will be in Italy using a Technically Private hospital, in Italy. There isn’t a good reason to deny that, especially when the baby has Italian citizenship.

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      People with ALS also have a terminal condition that requires life support. Maybe the NHS will start removing their ventilators too, to spare them further suffering.