Charlie Gard

[Xiahou]

Half of me simply says they should greenlight it, so the problem transfers to the United States so we can move on and put an end to the matter. However, there is an actual ethnical side involved because said American doctors don't actually care for Charlie Gard, just the publicity and the money involved. They can use it to help fund pet research projects or experiment with treatments which apparently "only work in theory".

Overall, this is a very unfortunate case of a child being prevented from their natural death by use of technology and zealous parents doing their most, detrimental to Charlie himself, in refusing to let him go.

It's just all rather surreal to me that his parents and legal guardians have the means to try further treatment, well-respected doctors who think that it's worth trying and yet their government is telling them that they have to let their child die.

I don't think anyone would fault the parents if they decided his case was hopeless and decided to end life support. Nor would anyone blame the NHS for denying payment for expensive long-shot treatment. But again, they have the means to provide the care on their own. So what if it's only a 10% chance? Let them try it. If it works, and Charlie is able to have any meaningful improvment- that's wonderful. If not, he can still be allowed to die.

It seems to me that all the dragging ass on this is only making any possible treatment less likely to succeed as his muscles further deteriorate and prolonging his suffering if there is any. Why not just let them attempt the treatment and then have the issue behind us?