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In reply to the discussion: Family Is ‘Devastated’ After a Hospital Removes Their 2-Year-Old Son from Life Support Against Their [View all]Sand Rat Expat
(290 posts)Instead, she chose to call her lawyer, as if her lawyer had the power in that moment to stop what was happening. She made a choice to do that rather than be with her child as his heart stopped beating. She made that choice after months of litigation in which it became painfully clear that the disconnection was going to occur. Let's not pretend that the hospital did anything underhanded or sneaky here. They didn't wait til the child's parents were away from his bedside to do this.
I'm very sorry for their loss, and very sorry this child is dead. It is a tragic ending for a young life, but the world is, sadly, full of such tragedies every single day. But it is in no way the hospital's or the staff's fault that at the critical moment this woman chose to phone her lawyer instead of being with her child. That choice was hers and hers alone, and to blame anyone else for it is ridiculous.