Re: The Alfie Evans case has proven we have to change the law in favour of parents
Originally Posted by
AnnieS
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We have people being forced to live in agony for years because we don't allow them the voluntary euthanasia they desire and then we have people having their life support switched off because it's too cruel to keep them alive.
Am I the only one who thinks there is something wrong in the system?
Have to admit when you put it like that there does seem to be a glaring disparity ...
but isn't that more a failing in denying voluntary euthanasia rather than questioning the right of the medical profession and courts to determine what is best for a terminally ill child in a semi-vegetative degenerative limbo that could hardly be called life?
I can see both sides of this.
A tend to agree that parent/parents should have final say and ultimate decision over the point and location of death when it involves their child. It can be interpreted that the State trumps a parents rights.
On the other hand, the little lad was not going to get any better, there was no cure for him and I suspect most of the legal wrangling was due to the parents unable to accept their little boy was doomed to die. Which is understandable.
If the Pope and the Italians were so sure they could help the child why didn't they fly over a consultant who could submit a medical report to the Courts?
Sadly, it just turned into a farce. Sad for the parents who once on the media merry-go-round struggled to get off it until the end ... when hopefully they spent some small, grievously short but good quality time with their little boy before it was too late. Better that memory to treasure rather than mobs outside a hospital.