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August 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda - The one-year-old had a ‘catastrophic accident’ in May and is in a coma
- Doctors say treatment has become ‘futile’ and the child has no ‘desire to survive’
- His parents believe ‘where there’s life there’s hope’
By
Emily Allen
07:08 EST, 1 August 2012
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02:58 EST, 2 August 2012
A judge has ruled that a brain-damaged baby should be allowed to die even though his deeply religious parents want him kept alive on a life-support machine.
The one-year-old had a ‘catastrophic accident’ in May and is in a coma but Mr Justice Hedley declared at London’s High Court that it’s in the child’s best interests if he is now given palliative care.
He said it was ‘unrealistic’ that his condition would ever improve and said doctors had told him that any treatment had now become ‘futile’.
Decision: A judge at London’s High Court has ruled that a brain-damaged
baby should be allowed to die even though his religious parents
want him kept alive
The judge has said hospital staff should now decide when to turn off the child’s life-support machine.
The child, the first of a married
couple who cannot be named, was born healthy but was involved in an
accident in May which meant he now has profound and irreversible brain
damage.
Mr Justice Hedley said he had pondered ‘long and anxiously’ about the decision
The parents said
their faith meant that they have resisted switching off their son’s life
support machine, and said they believed that ‘where there’s life
there’s hope’.
But consultants told the judge that the child lacked awareness of his surroundings, showed no interaction or recognition of his parents and didn’t cry or smile.
One doctor said: ‘In my opinion Baby X no longer has the human instinct and desire to survive’.
Mr Justice Hedley said he had pondered ‘long and anxiously’ about the decision and expressed his profound sympathy to the parents.
However, he said that preservation of life by medics ‘cannot be everything’.
He added: ‘No understanding of life is complete unless it has in it a place for death which comes to each and every human with unfailing inevitability.
‘There is unsurprisingly deep in the human psyche a yearning that, when the end comes, it does so as a ‘good death’.
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Heartbreaking.
As much as I feel for these parents, this little baby is alive but has no life. It seems kinder to let them go than keep them going with no quality of life.
RIP little one, and I hope the parents can understand and come to terms with their child’s death xx
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I’m sad for the family. But if it’s gods will, he will survive without the machines.
Turn them off. Let him rest.
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If this baby is on a Life Support Machine then he isn’t actually living. But if he survives after the machine is switched off then that is another story. It has been known to happen.
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Please thing if the poor child here and do what is the very best for him. So sorry for the parents to have to make this decision
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My heartfelt sympathy to the parents but I’m afraid I cannot agree with them. Just because we have developed the technology to prolong life, it doesn’t mean we should. My son was left severely brain damaged from meningitis and only survived because he was resuscitated several times. Now in his 20’s he has daily epileptic seizures, cannot walk or speak, is doubly incontinent, has a gastrostomy feeding tube, and understands very little. For years we have had to fight tooth and nail to get the support he needs. I cannot put into words how dreadful it is to see your child struggle and how it affects every member of the family. I love him very much but I grieve every day for the child I never had. An outcome worse than death? Yes, and we’re living it.
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This is sickening.
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Such a sad story. I think it’s one of these situations that you can’t really understand fully until you go thru it urself. But I think if medics say there is no hope then the judge is probably right, really really feel for parents tho.
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How dare you insinuate that this child has no desire to survive!
Would you actually expect the parents to be okay with turning the machine off regardless of whether they are religious or not, its still there baby, the mother carried this life in her womb for 9 months loved him looked after him kissed him.
I in fact am appalled and offended at the thought of the authorities throwing away this babys life like a piece of trash.
His parents decision should be final, why shouldnt they be allowed to look after him the way he is, as they have said where there is life there is hope!
All the best to them all x
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What a sad story – I feel so sorry for the parents I don’t think that being religious is the only motivator here though. No parent wants to give up on their child. It must be heartbreaking for them.
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