BREAKING: Archie Battersbee was fatally injured ‘inadvertently during a prank or experiment that went wrong’, a coroner has found.
Archie Battersbee, a gravely ill 12-year-old, died after doctors switched off his life support last year
‘I think he did so without necessarily a good reason, 12-year-old boys don’t always have reasons,’ Brookes added.He said that ‘something very similar happened the night before’ when the schoolboy’s sister saw him putting a cord around his head to try to pull a door closed. The boy’s death prompted big questions over who has the right to make life or death decisions about gravely ill children In a case over who can make life or death decisions for gravely ill children, doctors felt there was little hope Archie would make a recovery as he had suffered severe brain damage – his brainstem, they said, was dead.
Archie’s family, who are Christian, repeatedly appealed the rulings, insisting they wanted Archie to die at a time ‘chosen by God’. The ruling went on: ‘Archie’s condition and the awful predicament that he and his family are in have achieved widespread Press and media publicity, much of which has included a photograph showing Archie as a most engaging boy.
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