Posted on 04/28/2018 10:36:36 AM PDT by Morgana
Hundreds of tearful supporters of Alfie Evans and his family gathered at a park near Alder Hey Childrens Hospital to release balloons today to honor the little boy after his death.
Five days after a childrens hospital yanked his life support without his parents permission, little Alfie Evans has died. Alfies death comes after a massive legal battle between the hospital and his parents Tom and Kate.
An administrator of the Alfie Army Facebook page posted a video of the moving ceremony.
Supporters shouted I love you and let off balloons outside Alder Hey hospital as the world paid tribute to the warrior who lay down his shield. A tearful crowd sang Youll Never Walk Alone and released blue and purple heart-shaped inflatables into the sky above Liverpool, where Alfie spent his short life.
One supporter was heard shouting I love you Alfie! during a countdown to the release, while others chanted his name.
In posts on Facebook, Alfies mother and father confirmed his passing.
Our baby boy grew his wings tonight at 2:30 am. We are heart broken. Thank you everyone for all your support, she wrote.
My gladiator lay down his shield and gained his wings at 02:30 absolutely heartbroken, the boys father Tom Evans wrote on Facebook.
Pope Francis has responded to the death of little Alfie Evans, the disabled boy who died just days short of his 2nd birthday. The leader of the Catholic Church expressed the kind of sentiments that people around the world are expressing today. He talked about his sadness and he talked about Alfie being embraced by the Lord in heaven.
I am deeply moved by the death of little Alfie. Today I pray especially for his parents, as God the Father receives him in his tender embrace, the pope tweeted on Saturday.
The legal battle sparked anger nationwide in England but also internationally as people stood up for Alfies parents and strongly opposed courts and hospitals making life and death decisions for patients over their families objections.
There is concern that the hospital contributed to his death.
As LifeNews reported, after removing his life support without permission, officials at Alder Hey Childrens Hospital waited 28 hours before finally feeding the 23-month old boy, who was fighting a rare neurological condition. Alfies Father Tom Evans confirmed at the time that his son was finally being fed but he condemned hospital officials for waiting so long to finally get him the nutrition he needs.
They only started feeding him at one oclock yesterday. Its disgusting how hes being treated, Evans said. Not even an animal would be treated like this. Hes proving them wrong. Its time to give him some grace and dignity and let him go home or to Italy.
The other day, Alfies parents changed course and decided to end their battle.
Alfie Evans father Tom Evans called for supporters of Alfie and his family to stand down so they can begin building a bridge with Alder Hey Childrens Hospital and its staff. The statement from Alfies father was surprising given the animosity that had developed between the Evans family and the hospital. Hospital officials have spent months in court preventing Alfies family from taking him to a hospital in Italy or even taking him home. Hospital officials even went as far as misleading courts by saying that they never said Alfie would die quickly after his life support was removed even though they initially said Alfie would die within minutes after yanking his life support over his parents objections.
But perhaps seeing that there was little opportunity left to fight for Alfies rights and their right to take him abroad or take him home or sensing a need to appease the hospital to bring him home, Tom Evans struck a conciliatory tone.
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Later, the family of Alfie Evans blasted a false news report saying his parents are supposedly preparing for his death.
Alfies parents had hoped to take the little boy to the hospital in order to potentially get experiemental treatment that could help his rare degenerative neurological condition but courts repeatedly denied that. Justice Hayden ruled that Alfies family would not be able to fly him to Italy for treatment and appeared to say that this was the final decision related to his case. He said flying Alfie to Italy could harm his health because, as court testimony indicated, the flight could trigger possible continuous seizures due to stimulations of the flight. But Alfies parents are concerned Alfie will die if he doesnt get care and possible experimental treatment in Italy.
A British doctors group, The Medical Ethics Alliance, expressed its horror over the treatment of Alfie Evans that it called a medical tyranny.
And Italys Healthcare Chief has slammed the decisions by UK courts to treat Alfie the way that they had. The President of the Italian National Institute of Health lambasted the UK High Courts decision yesterday on Alfie Evans that resulted it the childrens hospital being allowed to remove life support over Alfies parents objections.
Pope Francis repeatedly spoken on Alfies behalf and urged that Alfies parents be allowed to bring him to Italy.
Members of Parliament are leading a new campaign for a law to prevent the tragic situation happening to Alfie Evans and his parents from happening to any other family. The new campaign calls on MPs to debate the matter in the House of Commons with potential plans for Alfies Law.
And these poor parents will get stuck with the funeral bill, to add insult to injury. The hospital and goobermint took custody of this child, killed him and will now make mom and dad pay. Disgusting.
They should have been demonstrating.
I was in contact with a Brit last night over this story and what it comes down to, the hospital staff and the courts know better than the parents............And this Brit supported their decisions..........
I wonder if they will be charged with a crime for that act of defiance (no, I'm not kidding). Dolphins, turtles, and birds have been harmed when they mistake balloons for food and eat them. The socialist Left cares almost as much about cute animals as they do about crushing those who resist them. With this double motivation, they are probably already searching for the appropriate charges, anything from littering or illegal dumping to harming endangered species, whatever their carefully-selected judge can make fit that carries the harshest prison sentence.
The UK is now as bad as Hitler’s Germany!
Bastards tortured this family and their poor child. To deny a possible treatment over politics and stubbornness. Evil.
“Hundreds of Tearful Alfie Evans Supporters Release Balloons to Honor Him After His Death”
...And were arrested immediately for violating Britain’s anti-littering laws which carry a 1,000 Pound fine and six month confinement
I believe that the British government didnt want the world to see what a failure the NHS is. The NHS is the largest financial entity in Europe. They have more money than any other institution on the continent. Thats saying something when you have companies like FIAT, Damlier-Benz, Siemens and Bayer. The above mentioned generate revenue while the NHS sucks money from the hapless British citizens.
That rumbling you feel under St. Martins church in the UK is Winston Churchill spinning in his grave. The beloved country that he fearlessly led is no more.
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