It's pretty common way to parish in the civilized and uncivilized world we live in... My father had Parkinson's and couldn't easily swallow and when he died at 82 he weighed 86 pounds. Cognitive, alert and humorous.
He started to death..
I had 12 great aunt's and uncle's, about half had Alzheimer's and all died wasted away to nothing curled up in a fetal ball, All starved to death..
We all die, we all hope for fast and painless. But alas it always does not work out that way.
It always seems to be a infant or a child that's thrust into the limelight to show how bad man can be, but in reality it's just a slow news day.
None of us are making it out of here alive..
I agree that no one gets out alive. I agree others have starved to death.
I bet your father, aunts, and uncles were not ordered to starve to death by the government, though. This is the difference to me.
This kid is going to die. It might be today, it might be in 96 years. I'm leaning a lot closer to today, regardless of medical treatment, based on what I've been able to read. That means exactly nothing. The problem is the government's insistence this kid die sooner rather than later while denying the parents the right to try another treatment at exactly zero cost to the UK government/taxpayer.
It may be that not a sole in the world can help him. That's not for the courts to decide, in my opinion. Especially when the UK taxpayer is not on the hook to pay for it. By ordering the denial of food they are killing him regardless of any illness the child has. They are deciding the Italian government has no right to pay for trying to help this kid - regardless of how futile it seems that may be.
Why should the government have that authority?