Just some clarification here : these parents are not suing the hospital to have their daughter dehydrated and killed - it seems their daughter is now living with them at home.
They are suing the hospital for giving them bad advice, lying to them, telling them they should order that the little girl be taken off life support, and then turning around and ignoring the very order they procured from the parents in the first place.
It would be like going to hospital with a serious condition, having the doctor present you with DNR paperwork and convincing you its the best choice, then completely ignoring the order.
The hospital a) told the family the girl could not survive off life support, b) would be blind, c) would be deaf, d) would be better off if life support was removed. After convincing the parents this was the correct choice, EVERY single point the hospital made turned out to be incorrect. And that, in being incorrect, they now had the power to revoke the order they convinced the parents to agree to in the first place!
No ones even thinking about what that must have been like for the parents emotionally.
Whether or not their good people, or good parents, or if the hospital acted correctly or not - there was a chain reaction of incompetence here.
Should the hospital have let the baby die? NO, of course not. But that’s not really what this is about. The baby wouldn’t even have been in that situation if the doctors hadn’t told the parents she wasn’t even capable of eating without intense pain. Anyway, yeah, it’s unfortunate this is being phrased in terms of “they didn’t let my baby die’ instead of in terms of ‘they convinced me to let my baby die, and even took steps to kill her, but they were wrong about everything.’
"I would tell them to come to our house for a week and see what it's like to live with a child like ours," said Mantha. "See the involvement that's needed -- the time and energy in terms of everything involved in our life."