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

[rory_20_uk]

He died when active treatment was withdrawn. They did not kill him - Intensive Care is not a "natural" state of affairs. There is no "right" to intensive treatment that has no hope of working. It is completely logical not to focus resources on the hopeless. Else why do we stop CPR after an amount of time? Why not just keep on going until the body starts to rot? To do otherwise by your logic is nonsensical.

Starving patients to death is a time honoured method in the USA as well - since this is not undertaking any action to cause death, merely taking no action to prevent it. I have not seen you espouse for others when life support is withdrawn because the family want it to be. This is a barbaric way to die that certainly in the UK if one were to treat an animal in that way one would face criminal prosecution as the animal should be humanely (oh the irony) put down... but we do not do that to humans.

Of all the needless deaths in the NHS - of which every year there are thousands - I can not fathom why you focus on one needful death.