Dod101 wrote:As anyone interested will know, Archie died earlier today. I cannot imagine what that must be like for the parents but life happens, as many of us will know and so does death. No point in criticising the mother but I cannot help thinking that she was very poorly advised at some point, and where the funds came from for all these court appeals I do not know. I hope not from public funds.
He will now be at peace unless as Spet has said he in fact died in any normal meaning of the word some time ago.
Dod
While the funding for the lawyers representing the family came from various charities (as I understand it), the cost of the lawyers representing the hospital and of course the very substantial cost of Archie’s care for several additional months were met by the NHS.
Having read one of the latest judgments in this case (posted up thread) I’m afraid my heart has hardened somewhat with respect to the parents. His condition really was hopeless and he required very invasive and expensive (24:7 1:1 or even 2:1 nursing) care for additional months while all this played out.
Through the parents’ self-indulgence hundreds of thousands of pounds has been wasted. They thought they were fighting for Archie but really they were fighting for themselves. Given the NHS budgetary pressures, lives may not now be saved because of these costs. Sad all round, but I fear we have to look more carefully at these cases.