Baby Sun: Should they let nature take it's course?

[kwillia]

The fate of a critically ill infant is back in the hands of a judge who decided three weeks ago to allow a hospital to turn off the machines keeping him alive.

Sun was born with an often-fatal skeletal condition. Officials at Texas Children's Hospital have said a team of doctors and bioethics specialists determined it would be "unethical to continue with care that is futile and prolongs Sun's suffering."

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Sun suffers from thanatophoric dysplasia, a genetic condition characterized by extremely short limbs, a narrow chest, small ribs and underdeveloped lungs. Infants usually are stillborn or die shortly after birth from respiratory failure. There have been rare documented cases of survivors, however.

"He is slowly suffocating to death because his lungs lack the capability to support his body," the hospital said.

Hudson hasn't seen her son in more than a month, but says she believes she communicates with him telepathically.

"Sun is going to live forever," she said. "As long as the Sun is in the sky he will live. I don't believe in death."

 

[willie]

Pull the plug. The child only has misery ahead.

 

[FromTexas]

Hudson hasn't seen her son in more than a month, but says she believes she communicates with him telepathically.

After the kid reads that, it may just want out of this deal instead of years of therapy later.

 

[Suz]

The fate of a critically ill infant is back in the hands of a judge who decided three weeks ago to allow a hospital to turn off the machines keeping him alive.


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This is just horriffic. I was devestated Sunday to have to make this type of decision about my beloved pet--I can't imagine having to make a decision such as this about of all things A INFANT!!!

As for the woman who hasn't been to see her child in over a month....... I can not bring myself to call her a mother....

 

[dems4me]

After the kid reads that, it may just want out of this deal instead of years of therapy later.

: :

 

[kwillia]

May he R.I.P.

A critically ill baby at the center of a lengthy court battle died Tuesday shortly after being removed from life support at a Houston hosptal.