Tag: life support

Boy at Heart of UK Court Battle Dies After Life Support Ends

LONDON—A 12-year-old boy who had been in a coma for four months died Saturday at a London hospital after doctors ended the life-sustaining treatment his family had fought to continue. Archie Battersbee’s mother, Hollie Dance, said her son died at 12:15 p.m., about two hours after the hospital began withdrawing treatment. British courts had rejected…


Baby Born 17 Weeks Early Survives After His Parents Refused Twice to Turn Off His Life Support

A baby in England has defied the odds despite arriving 17 weeks early and after his parents twice refused doctors’ advice of turning off his life support. Little Chay Jefferys weighed just 1 pound when he was born at 23 weeks on June 2, 2021, and spent nine months fighting for his life and battling…


Baby Tinslee Survives Hospital’s Attempt to Push Her Off Life Support

Commentary If it were up to the doctors, Tinslee Lewis would have been in her grave before age one. Instead, in a legal and advocacy triumph affirming the proper relationship between patient/family and doctors, the intrinsic equal dignity of the seriously ill—as well as a testament to the power of a mother’s love—the now 3-year-old…