Archie Battersbee

The parents of Archie Battersbee, 12, who suffered severe brain injuries in April, have been trying to keep him on life support for weeks, taking the case as ...

In July, three Court of Appeals judges agreed with original ruling, that found life support for the boy could end. Back in June, a High Court judge ruled Battersbee was “dead” on the basis of MRI scans. Assisted by the Christian Legal Centre, his parents exhausted available legal routes to keep him on life support. In August, the European Court of Human Rights told the family it could not accept an application to postpone life support. But the Court of Appeals refused the request. His parents, Peter Battersbee and Hollie Dance, believe he may have been taking part in a social media challenge at the time.

The 12-year-old has died after his life support was withdrawn, following a four-month legal fight.

Doctors believe it is “highly likely” that the child is in effect dead and that it is in his best interests to stop life-support treatment. Their application to the ECHR, arguing that the high court’s ruling violated the European convention on human rights, fails. In the family division of the high court, Arbuthnot oversees three days of evidence and argument about Archie’s treatment. Royal London hospital sets a date for Archie’s treatment to be withdrawn, on 1 August at 2pm. He is taken to hospital with traumatic head injuries. Barts Health, the NHS trust in charge of Archie’s care at the Royal London hospital, starts proceedings in the high court to test his brain stem and to withdraw mechanical ventilation.

His parents made unsuccessful appeals at Britain's highest courts and the European Court of Human Rights against ending the life support.

It has not been edited by Globe staff. The parents of Archie Battersbee made unsuccessful appeals at Britain’s highest courts and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against ending the life support. A 12-year-old British boy with brain damage at the centre of a legal battle over whether to continue his life support system died on Saturday after a hospital ended treatment, his family said.

The decision to terminate the brain-damaged boy's life support was made by a British court over his parents' protests.

Pope Francis and Polish President Andrzej Duda spoke in defence of Alfie, with President Duda suggesting he could grant the boy Polish citizenship if the parents requested it and for him to be treated in a Polish hospital. Alfie Evans was eventually granted Italian citizenship, but ultimately he was not transferred to Italy and died in the same hospital in which he spent almost a year and a half of his life. The parents were also refused to take the boy out of the hospital and put him in a hospice, where he could receive palliative care. The case of Archie Battersbee was not the first one in which a UK court decided to terminate life support for a child, siding with the doctors over the protests of its parents. Archie’s heartbroken mother said that the state effectively took away their right to make decisions about the well-being of their child. “The Court [...] decided not to issue the interim measure sought.

The 12-year-old had been in a coma since he was found unconscious by his mother Hollie Dance in April.

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Archie Battersbee died Saturday after he was taken off of life support by doctors at the Royal London Hospital.

Doctors felt that the boy's situation was hopeless and that he would not recover because his brain stem was dead. The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family," said Williams. "I would just like to say I am the proudest mum in the world.

But doctors treating the boy had declared Archie to be "brain stem dead", and argued that the youngster should be disconnected from a ventilator.

"They provided high-quality care with extraordinary compassion over several months in often trying and distressing circumstances. It's been really hard. It's barbaric." Chief executive Andrea Williams said: "The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family. "The events of the last few weeks raise many significant issues including questions of how death is defined, how those decisions are made and the place of the family," the Christian Legal Centre says. "Urgent review and reform" is needed in light of Archie Battersbee's death, a group that has been supporting his family has said.

Archie Battersbee, 12, died hours after he was taken off of life support at Royal London Hospital in London. The death happened after a judge decided ...

The parents pushed for their son to undergo experimental treatment before a court sided with doctors, who argued for ending life support. Doctors at the Royal London Hospital argued Archie was brain-stem dead and should be allowed to die. "Their unconditional love and dedication to Archie is a golden thread that runs through this case,″ Theis wrote in her decision. In the case, the will of the parents were again pitted against those of medical professionals. The European Court of Human Rights refused to intervene in the case. Archie Battersbee, 12, died at a London hospital around noon on Saturday, about two hours after doctors discontinued treating him.

Archie Battersbee sorrowed brain damage in a happening at home on April 7 and did not recover consciousness.

After Archie's death, the Barts Health NHS Trust informed the press that they would like to thank the hospital and the caregivers for their undying support. Hollie was, however, informed by the hospital authorities that there were no other methods left for her son to continue living. The little boy had major brain injuries and needed life support, including mechanical ventilation and medicinal treatment.

Ella Carter, described how there was 'nothing dignified' about Archie Battersbee's death, who died at the Royal London Hospital.

‘It’s been really hard. ‘He was such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end, and I am so proud to be his mum.’ This included bids to the High Court, Court of Appeal and European Court of Human Rights to have him transferred to a hospice to die.

Doctors like me agonise over the harrowing decisions around the end of treatment – but we must always be ready to listen, says Rachel Clarke.

When the next case like Archie’s occurs – with an inevitable rerun of the frenzy and drama and whipped-up hostilities – please know that doctors like me agonise over the complex decisions around withdrawal of treatment. That professionalism is in stark contrast to some of the florid and sensationalist coverage of the case. But brain death means a permanent, irreversible and complete loss of brain function, including the lower part of the brain that connects to the spinal cord. This part, the brain stem, controls most of the body’s automatic functions that are essential for life, such as breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure and swallowing. However, once the full extent of his injuries became clear – including scans showing catastrophic and irreversible brain damage – the clinical team concluded that prolonging treatment was no longer in Archie’s best interests. The professional and legal duties of doctors in the UK require nothing less.