Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#1
‘Thou shalt not kill but needst not strive
Officiously to keep alive.’
Discuss.
Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
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Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
#3
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
This was tragic for the little boy and his family as there was never going to be a happy ending.
The thing I fail to understand is why do hospitals and doctors think they are always right and refuse to allow treatment elsewhere even if it is likely to be futile. Alfie was going to die regardless of what treatment he was given so why not allow his parents request to take him to Italy?
Surely when there is no hope the parents wishes should be paramount not a group of medics and their legal team.
I remember the little boy with the brain tumour that the parents had to kidnap so he could receive proton treatment abroad, the last report I saw the child was doing well.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Guest 1831- Registered: 1 Sep 2016
- Posts: 395
#5
Mummy please don’t cry now.
For I must go to sleep.
I’ll be beside you always.
To dry the tears you weep.
Daddy please be strong now.
It’s time for me to rest.
The three of us together dad.
We fought, we done our best.
You took my fight to everyone.
The courts, the queen, the pope.
While still caring for your baby.
You never give up hope.
And now the pain bears heavy.
As the time has come to part.
Though you no longer hold me in your arms.
I’ll live on in your heart.
For the good Lord he has called me.
To sit there by his side.
Watching over both of you.
With never ending pride.
A last message to my army.
Please hold your loved ones tight.
For no one’s time is promised.
Now I must say goodnight.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#6
Its always emotive and difficult
whose best to make such decisions medical staff? parents?
should parents be allowed to make him suffer?
Its always going to be emotive
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Guest 1535- Registered: 27 May 2015
- Posts: 399
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Jan Higgins wrote:This was tragic for the little boy and his family as there was never going to be a happy ending.
The thing I fail to understand is why do hospitals and doctors think they are always right and refuse to allow treatment elsewhere even if it is likely to be futile. Alfie was going to die regardless of what treatment he was given so why not allow his parents request to take him to Italy?
Surely when there is no hope the parents wishes should be paramount not a group of medics and their legal team.
I remember the little boy with the brain tumour that the parents had to kidnap so he could receive proton treatment abroad, the last report I saw the child was doing well.
We don't live in a free country Jan and we must abide by rules and laws even if it means they are wrong and we the people suffer; as these parents their needs and wants for their 'own son' taken from them. The little boy is free but the mother and father left with this all, whilst drs etc forget about it all it was just another case they done their deeds.
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If only everyone could be kind and honest what a better world we would be in.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
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I think that on the balance of probabilities most parents want the best for their child and most medical professionals do too. And on the same basis, that medical professionals are typically more likely than parents to know how that may be achieved. The UK also has a mechanism for dealing with differences of opinion. I can even see that, regrettably, there may be a need for crowd-funding to access that mechanism. However, and speaking with some personal experience, what I find grotesque is the notion that non-anonymised differences of opinion are somehow proper for debate in the public domain
(Not my real name.)
