Something doesn’t smell right, about this story.
I suspect there are some major factors that have been left out. It seems like the story has been ‘sanitized’ to provoke an emotional reaction, and some major facts have simply been deleted. I’d gather that the missing ‘facts’ have a lot to do with this ‘rare metabolic disorder’ and the ‘lung failure’.
Was the child born without intestines? Are the lungs immature? Was the child born to a drug addicted mother, thus had severe deformation of the lungs, heart, brain and digestive tract? The fact is, none of us knows.
With modern medicine, we can keep almost any physical body part alive indefinitely, whether the person has a brain, or if the head has been completely removed. The cold, hard facts of life is that any hospital has a limited amount of equipment, and limited financial access. If a child who will never recover is using the equipment, a child who has a high likelihood of recovery certainly may die, waiting to use that piece of equipment to become available. It’s first come, first serve. The MD’s cannot disconnect a patient from a machine, so the machine can be moved to another patient, lest they lose their license to practice medicine.
Exactly, without detailing the child’s condition and prognosis, there is no way to say yay or nay.
There was a thread on free republic a year or two back about a young girl in England that successfully sued for the right to end treament and go home home to die.
you should have seen some of the responses,people and goverments sometimes need to shutup and let the doctors do their job