A final goodbye: Archie Battersby’s life support ends Saturday

On April 7th of this year, a 12-year-old boy was found tied up on social media at his home in the South East of England.

The young man suffered brain damage in a “freak accident” and has not responded since.

Earlier on Friday, Holly Dance and Paul Battersby lost a last-minute legal bid to remove their 12-year-old son from the Royal London Hospital and move him to hospice. the sun reported.

They wanted him to be able to “spend his last moments” in peace without nurses or doctors around.

The parents appeared before the Court of Appeals to challenge the High Court’s ruling, but were dismissed.

The High Court ruled that the move was not in Archie’s best interests and said the risks were “significant and unpredictable.”

Campaign Group’s Christian Concern announced that his family was told to stop life-sustaining treatment beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday.

A spokeswoman for the group said it had “exhausted all legal routes.”

“Family is devastated and spending precious time with Archie.”

The Barts Health NHS Trust said it would not change its position in that it would not make any changes to Archie’s treatment “until the outstanding legal issues have been resolved”.

In her judgment, Mrs. Theis Judge said Archie should remain in the hospital when treatment was discontinued.

She agreed with the concerns of the medical trust responsible for Archie’s care, who discovered that Archie’s condition was too unstable to be transported.

Doctors are concerned that traveling by ambulance “is most likely to hasten early deterioration, which the family wants to avoid.”

The family is currently appealing the judge’s decision.

Judge Theis had allowed a delay in stopping Archie’s treatment until 2:00 p.m. Friday to allow time to file an appeal.

In an interview with Sky News, Hollie denounced the High Court’s ruling – which was reached late Thursday night but was announced Friday morning – as “disgusting and outrageous.”

“All our wishes as a family have been denied by the authorities,” she added.

“We are broken, but we love Archie and refuse to give up on him, so we carry on.

Holly previously called refusing to move Archie “inhumane” and said, “It’s utterly barbaric and absolutely unacceptable that Archie isn’t even allowed to choose where to spend his last moments. I am disgusted,” he said.

It is revealed that Holly may give her son mouth-to-mouth if the doctor removes oxygen when his son’s machine is turned off.

The mother vowed to “keep him on oxygen” if doctors were to switch off the 12-year-old boy’s machine and be “ready to do anything” to keep his son alive.

A spokesman for the Christian Legal Center, a campaign organization that supports the family, told The Sun that word of mouth about his son “might be something Holly has to rely on.”

He referred to the “traumatic” incident of young Alfie Evans. His parents had a similar legal battle to Archie’s when doctors tried to turn off his machine.

Alfie’s father, Tom, gave the boy a mouth-to-mouth to keep the dying child alive in his devastating final moments.

The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday dismissed Holly and Paul’s final appeal to keep Archie’s life support machine on, leaving Holly “fully deflated.”

A spokesman for the European Court of Human Rights has requested from representatives of Archie’s parents, under rule 39, to issue “provisional measures” in “exceptional” cases where “the applicant is considered to be in serious danger”. It said it had received a request to allow it to apply. , irreparable damage if measures are not applied”.

“[But]the submission did not appear to contain a clear request for the court to take specific action under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court,” a spokesman said.

“With regard to the Convention appeals under Articles 6 and 8, because they related to a request to transfer Archie Battersby to hospice care for discontinuing treatment, the Chief Justice held that these appeals were subject to rule 39. determined to be outside the scope of

The next day, the family applied to the High Court to move Archie from the Royal London Hospital to a hospice of last resort.

“If Archie becomes deprived of oxygen, I will continue to give him oxygen even if life support is removed,” Holly said in a statement.

“I hope the Supreme Court does the right thing. If they refuse permission for us to take him to hospice and receive palliative oxygen, it’s simply inhumane and Archie’s ” dignity has no effect.

“The whole system is piled up against us.

“Reform must now take place through Charlie’s Law, so parents don’t have to go through this.

“We will fight to the end for Archie’s right to life.”

The family’s lawyers had until 9am on Thursday to appeal to the High Court to have their young son transferred from the Royal London Hospital.

A heartbroken Holly confirmed that the family intends to continue fighting the court’s decision, saying, “It’s absolutely barbaric and that Archie isn’t even allowed to choose where he spends his last moments. I hate it,’ he said.

“We will fight to the end. We will fight for our son’s right to live,” she vowed earlier.

In an East London hospital, a combination of medical interventions, including a ventilator and medication, keeps him alive.

This article was originally Sun Reprinted here with permission.