Alfie Evans Survives being taken off child support, parents continue legal battl - Sensationalist Headlines

Whole lot of people on the hashtag of the MAGA-persuasion blaming NHS/liberals/UK govenment. Load of cunts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43933056

what's sad about this situation is that people are focusing more on the parents needs than the child. who is the actual patient? who needs protection from bad decisions? what if the parents decided they wanted to take their child to uganda and then they perform some sort of ritual treatment that caused them suffering. you are essentially defending the idea of playing the child as a ragdoll rather than looking at what is best for the child. This happens over and over again and the hospital suffers, the staff suffers and it doesn't help the patient.

TThus whole debacle is incredible. You can easily see who actually knows the facts and who is outraged by a headline. Doctors abiding by their Hippocratic oath are somehow being made out to be child killers. The parents are being incredibly selfish, anyone should be Blessed to see that

the parents are entitled to challenge their opinion but the public should be ashamed.

In all honesty I don't see why they don't just them them take the kid to Italy. The kid is dead either way so it really makes no difference. I understand why the hospital wants to stop putting resources that could be going to other kids into a kid that's practically dead, but there's really little harm in letting them take him to Italy.

I think the thing that grinds me most is that this seems less like they wanted to save Alfie's life and more like they wanted to be The Parents Who Doth Take This Fell Child Upon Thy Shoulders, Hefting Him Towardst The Heavens With All Their Might However Futile, like they're suddenly disciples of St. Jude reaching for the sun.

the parents are under fire for being asshats - the father basically doxxed the info of the doctors treating his son, harassed staff and helped organize the rallies that tried to storm the hospital.

The parents were ridiculous cunts (as were the protestors) but I feel like this does highlight a law that to many people appears very strange.

The parents and protestors are cunts and i firmly stand by this belief due to the fact they were acting incredibly selfish about their precious kiddo and ignoring literally every other child in the damned hospital Grief and suffering can only excuse so much behavior until you're basically a criminal

There's obviously a point where further treatment is just inappropriate toying with a corpse - say, giving some 95 year old, long-time sick grandma heart massage for three hours. The outlook in this case would be about the same, so while I can sympathise with the idea that parents should be able to "try" every treatment option, I don't find it wrong that someone at some point puts their foot down. It's obviously hard in cases like this where the patient is in a sort of grey zone, but the idea that parents should be able to do just about anything to a doomed patient I don't buy.

It's not a simple process to ship a patient who needs life support to another country. you can't just buy a ticket on RyanAir and zip over. It requires special aircraft with the equipment to maintain the patient, and that shit is expensive. The hospital doesn't want to take on a massive expense to move the kid to Italy because it won't help in any way.

Cmpound the fact that the child was pretty much dead at this point with a disease that was incurable, it would be idiotic to fly him down there.

I mean if the Vatican were willing to pay for it I don't see why they should care. The kid was literally going to die either way they might as well have just let them take him to Italy, it's not like it could have made him worse than dead. The hospital should have just backed off.