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    Junge stirbt, nachdem das Oberste Gericht angeordnet hat, dass die lebenserhaltenden Maßnahmen eingestellt werden


    Junge stirbt, nachdem das Oberste Gericht angeordnet hat, dass die lebenserhaltenden Maßnahmen eingestellt werden

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y3xz9gw4no.amp

    Von Resident-Welder-207

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    1. greatdrams23 on

      This is a tragic situation that is complex and not easy to navigate. I have known and worked with children like this and worked with their parents.

      Parents are under immense pressure and of course will always defend their children, no matter what the circumstances.

      As an educator is these children, we always did our best to give them the best opportunities, but often this involved just attempting to communicate something – anything we could, in an attempt to understand their needs.

      Some children could be in constant pain but without the ability to communicate that in any way. That’s difficult to understand, but the brain can be so underdeveloped it so damaged that even communicating pain is impossible.

    2. PetersMapProject on

      It is always tragic when children die, but it’s always worth reading the judgement. 

      He’s so ill that he is permanently on a ventilator and cannot leave hospital. He cannot move or communicate; even his eye movements are deteriorating. He cannot express pain. He cannot play. 

      His secretions need to be cleared, or it feels like he’s drowning. But the suction required is described by other patients as feeling like a hot poker going down your throat. 

      He had no real quality of life, and no prospect of ever gaining a quality of life…. and as he was cognitively intact, he was fully aware of his own suffering. 

      It is terrible when a child is so sick, but it is even more terrible when a child is allowed to suffer for as long as possible with no hope of improvement. 

      https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/great-ormond-street-hospital-for-children-v-braqi/

    3. Zealousideal_Day5001 on

      Very sad. I understand Ayden’s mother appealing this all the way up to the High Court – maybe I would do the same – and I appreciate her not turning it into a media storm. Godspeed youngster, to whatever comes next

    4. AonghusMacKilkenny on

      Glad this didn’t turn into another one of these ‘Alfie’s barmy army’ type cases

    5. MoMxPhotos on

      If the only thing keeping you alive and I use that term very loosely since really the child is simply existing in a vegetable state is due to a machine, then you are already dead, keeping them like that is pure cruelty.

      I’m happy that the child is now free of suffering in silence.

    7. HauntedButtCheeks on

      A little boy is finally no longer tortured by pain. Sad things can be good things sometimes. RIP

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