Alfie Evans and the end of the myth of the UK as a free country.

[Husar]

( @Husar: The German Dr. Haas, and considerations around his advisements and testimony in this case, suggest to me that the German healthcare system is likely to act in a way that maintains the child or disabled patient on life support indefinitely:

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According to the last paragraph in this article, yes: https://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundhei...rechte-medizin

It says German doctors and courts usually decide for life support for as long as possible because the right to life is seen as especially worthy of protection here. Then again, given the rare disease in this case, I'm not sure we've had (m)any comparable cases in Germany. It says doctors here treat patients for as long as there is hope of improvement, however minuscule it is. The article is about the Gard case where there was a slim chance of treatment with the experimental method, the given case of this thread seems to have had no such chance.
It also doesn't necessarily mean that they would let the parents do whatever they want with the child regarding alternative treatments and so on.

It has resulted in those persons involved as being treated as Wards of the State and not as free people able to choose their own way in life.

The state tends to do that if the parents don't have the best interests of the child in mind. The child cannot act as a free person and make decisions, although I guess you could free it of all the tubes the doctors inserted and see what it does by its own free will...