Archie Battersbee, the brain-dead 12-year-old boy left in the middle of a legal battle in Britain, has died: "He fought to the end" – Up Jobs News

LONDON.- Archie Batterbee, the child of 12 years brain dead who was left in the middle of a strong legal battle between his family and the doctors, He died this Saturday after being taken off life support. her mother announced outside the Royal London Hospital.

Archie fought to the end and I am so proud to be his mother. said his mother, Hollie Dance.

“Sadly, Archie passed away today at 12:15. I would just like to say that I am the proudest mother in the world,” the woman said, through tears.

Archie, a gymnast and mixed martial arts lover, was found unconscious with something tied around his neck at his home in Southend, Essex, on April 7. His mom thinks I was participating in an online challenge on social networks.

Since then he was in a coma, without regaining consciousness. He was kept alive by a combination of medical interventions, including intubation and drug treatments.

His parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, supported by a Christian organization, they multiplied resources to prevent the disconnection that would lead to the death of their son. But the doctors maintained that his case is hopeless and that this justified stopping the interventions.

In a series of rulings, judges found that Archie had suffered severe brain damage and that the burdens of treating his condition “along with the complete lack of prospects for recovery” outweighed the benefits of continuing to keep him alive on life support.

The doctors said that they believed that the child’s brainstem was dead. However, due to the lack of response, they were unable to perform full tests, so they had not been legally declared brain dead. At the hearings, the judges lined up with the medical evidence and ruled that life support only served “to prolong his death, without being able to prolong his life”.

Archie’s family appealed the rulings, saying they wanted let him die at the time “chosen by God.” They argued that because of his Christian beliefs and the thoughts he had expressed in the past, Archie’s intention would have been to continue on life support.

Last Wednesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused to issue an injunction for Archie to be transferred to a hospice to die. The body declared itself incompetent to intervene and refused to “interfere” in what was established by the British Justice. Another request to the ECHR to intervene was rejected on Friday night, after a higher court ruled that the child should remain at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, east of London.

Dance called the doctors’ decision to schedule when life support would be withdrawn a “choreographed performance” for his son, and asked why the parents “Their decisions and their rights are taken away.”

In an interview with Sky News taped on Friday, Dance said the hospital had made it clear there were no other options and life support would be withdrawn at 10am this Saturday.

“The last few weeks since April 7… I don’t think there’s ever been a day that wasn’t really horrible.”, said the woman in the interview.

“It was very difficult,” he added. “Despite the strong face and appearance in front of the cameras so far, I’ve been pretty devastated.”

When asked if there was anything else he could do, he said: “No. I did everything I promised my little boy I would do.”

In Britain, when parents and doctors disagree about what is best for a child, a court is called to decide. Similar high-profile cases have emerged in recent years, such as those involving Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans.

ANSA agency and newspaper The New York Times