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That's a really long article. Care to share the part you are referring to?
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Here's the problem with that comparison. There is nothing to indicate that Connie Yates and Chris Gard are anything less than loving and capable parents. Michael Schiavo was living with and had fathered children with another woman. It's not reasonable to begrudge him companionship. If he wanted to move on after what happened to Terri then so be it. But he shouldn't have had spousal legal privilege if he was living a lifestyle that would invalidate a marriage. This is a guy who told a jury during his malpractice suit that he would use the settlement money to become a nurse to care for Terri for the rest of her life. Then after he received the settlement began the process of ending her life. There are plenty of reasons to think Michael Schiavo wasn't motivated by Terri's best interest. There are none to think that Connie Yates and Chris Gard don't have Charlie's best interests in mind.
In the case of an infant that is known as negligent homicide.
Nothing on British statutes comes close. The only negligence around here is yours, with facts.
Not only that, but take away resources for people that actually stand a chance. For people who always talk about "I don't want my tax money going to [insert group]" are perfectly fine with spending all these resources to artificially keep someone with no hope of any sort of meaningful life alive and in the end its solely for the parents that don't want to let go or are expecting some sort of "miracle" to happen.
Anyway, its pointless talking rational with people that think this is a human being
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This happens all the time with elderly parents and the grown children have to make the call. My father had a stroke and survived for 18 months getting worse and worse, finally on a respirator he was 91. My sister and I had vehement discussions, she wanted him kept alive, even though he was unconscious and unresponsive and on life support....crying like a baby I finally had to make the call......
Get your facts right. Persistent vegetative state and brain death are two different things. Brain death is a complete loss of brain function, including involuntary functions. Terri Schiavo was not being kept alive by heroic measures. She was not on a ventilator or anything like that. All she needed to remain alive was food and water, like anyone else.
How is living for years and years as a human vegetable a "life"?
