Posted on 11/15/2009 6:41:51 PM PST by pillut48
THE mother of a severely-disabled little boy known as Baby RB told today how she cuddled him with his father as they switched off his life support system.
The young boy was the subject of an emotionally-charged High Court case after his father challenged doctors who argued that the child's life support should be switched off "in his best interests".
The father later withdrew his objections and the judge agreed he should be allowed to die in peace.
His mother today revealed the couple cuddled him as they switched off the machine on Friday. The child died shortly afterward.
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What a horrible thing to go through. May God give them both strength.
I don’t know anything about this condition, so I can’t say what I would have done or would have wanted to do, but will say that the decision rightfully rested with the parents and not anyone else.
These doctors and the judge are a bunch of child killers. The blood of this innocent child is in their hands. I bet they must feel real good about themselves. They must be the toast of the liberal class in the UK. I have more words, but I know they are not appropriate. I do know that God has received this child into his kingdom.
This seems like a tragic case, but not a Schaivo-esque situation involving a feeding tube and uncertain authority.
This looks like it was a ventilator. As difficult as it is to say, I do not believe that anyone has the right to say, in effect, “the taxpayers of my country must keep my child (or any loved one) alive as long as I say so, regardless of futility or cost.”
Just as we can see into the future of Mr. Obama’s death panels, one could also see a future, given medical advances, of thousands of people on ventilators, at obscene expense, alive only because their next of kin insisted on it.
There is a BIG line between euthanasia and allowing Nature to take its course.
Correct headline: UK baby KILLED; Choked to death by NHS Death doctors
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Sounds like she is having some terrible regrets along with losing her child.
Were you aware that the baby in question had FULL brain functioning, and was aware of his surroundings and responded to the people and stimulus around him?
He was killed, as surely as Terri Schiavo was. :*(
I don't think that the cost to the state should be an issue, since the state insisted on taking over health care, though I'm sure it always is and always will be
I do agree, though as to your larger point, and am not comfortable standing in judgment of these parents - I understand the positions both of them took. May God grant them peace.
You’ll love Obamacare!
Wait’ll its your turn, watching them kill you, aware but helpless.
Prayers for them. That had to be the most heart wrenching thing to suffer, the death of an infant and to know it was your hands. Regardless of how justified it was, you know pyschologically they will suffer with that guilt.
I can’t say I would want my child to live in a hospital every minute for the rest of their life. I am just sorry these people were put in this horrible position.
Here we go again!
I don’t think this case is the same as Schiavo or just the state not wanting to pay, or even the parents not wanting to have their child live. This mother spent 10 hours a day with her child, that is not a mother who doesn’t care.
I have had family that had to decide on life support... it’s not an easy decision and not for someone to judge.
Yes, and that’s all he had. He couldn’t even breath without a tube down his throat. Couldn’t be held, couldn’t eat, couldn’t play, couldn’t do anything at all but lie in a bed and get stuck with needles. Quite a life there.
At least Terri could interact with others, limited as that was.
And this wasn’t just a ventilator. The baby’s lungs were filling up with fluid and had to be drained every couple of hours, and his condition was degenerative (earlier in his very short life, he’d been able to manage without a ventilator at least for a few hours at a time). He’d never been out of the hospital, and was never going to get out. Just suffer more and more and more until even all the machines and procedures couldn’t keep him alive anymore. They did the right thing letting him go (and probably should have done it a few months ago).
There is a BIG line between euthanasia and allowing Nature to take its course.
so let’s see....might as well get rid of iron lungs, respirators, heart/lung machines, feeding tubes, IV’s, and just let nature take its’ course
We had to make a decision in June about removing my mother’s ventilator. It is the most agonizing, horrible, dreadful thing you ever do. It’s not an easy choice, or one made because it’s just becoming a hassle dealing with someone in the hospital. I would have sat there every day for the rest of my life if it would have helped her in any way possible. But she was dying and all we did try to make it as painless as possible. Heavily sedated, she was gone in 5 minutes. I will never judge someone else who’s made this decision.
RIP.
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