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Today in Focus

The rightwing Christian group and the battle over end-of-life care

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Christian Legal Centre is behind a number of end-of-life court cases that could be ‘prolonging suffering’, according to doctors. Josh Halliday reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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One day in April 2022 his mum Holly came up to his room and found him in a state that must have been

1:17.0

impossible to comprehend.

1:20.8

Archie was unconscious.

1:25.0

Holly thinks he might have been attempting something he'd seen on Tik-Tock called

1:31.0

the blackout challenge, a prank that had gone terribly wrong.

1:35.6

It's a horrendously sad case.

1:39.6

Archie was rushed to hospital, the Royal London Hospital to be examined and while he was there,

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medics wanted to do what's called a brain stem death test so they could essentially understand

1:52.4

the extent of Archie's injury and the prospects for any recovery.

1:57.0

They'd kept him on life support for a few weeks and they felt that the kindest thing to do now was to let him go.

2:04.8

Archie's parents disagreed and so the NHS trust appealed to the high court

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which ruled that his treatment should be withdrawn.

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You put yourself in the parent's shoes when you read about these stories. Any relative

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