I feel compassion for Archie and his family, it’s a horrific situation. But he died over 2 months ago and we now have this circus. Each case like this sets a worrying precedent for the public that you can demand life sustaining treatment and waste masses of money and time to try and get it. The inference that the staff want to kill Archie for his organs shows such a staggering level of misunderstanding, ignorance and suspicion and this spreads like a disease when publicised in the media/
Technically though if his body is on life support, it is in a limbo state between life and death!
But I do agree that if his brain stem has gone, he has no chance at all of life, and all the life support machinery should be turned off, and let the poor child die in peace!
I do wish his mother and the rest of the family would agree to this, as it must be so expensive to keep him alive in an ICU bed. Maybe the hospital needs to issue a clear statement saying that they have no intention of using Archie or any child as an organ donor, against the wishes of the rest of the family. (I dont have an issue with organ donation, if it is agreed by the family, but.....if it is complex!)
I do wish in these cases there was more emphasis on .......if we want to see a true miracle....and see how well Archie and others could cope naturally, we should of course remove all the artificial life support. Give palliative care as appropriate, but let the body cope by itself, not full of man made drugs or interventions.
So sad