The eleven-month-old was similarly condemned to die. Last summer, Charlie Gard was similarly deemed life unworthy of life. Sadly, Alfie was not the first child to be offered up at the altar of the gods of death.
John Paul II meant when he talked about the culture of death. This is a textbook example of what Pope St. A two-year-old child was left to die, because the hospital and the court decided that death was “in his best interest.”
In the meantime, the Italian government had given Alfie citizenship, a hospital in Rome was willing to attempt to treat him, an air ambulance stood at the ready to take him to Rome, and they were all told to back off. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Alfie finally expired, after surviving without life support for five days. His life had already been determined to be not worth living, you see the experts had already spoken. On April 25, a UK Appellate Court decided that-despite this small oversight on the part of the hospital staff-it was still best for Alfie to die. This, however, did nothing to dissuade the benevolent experts to claim that death was still in Alfie’s best interest. Their staggering miscalculation was exposed as Alfie continued to live, he was left for six hours without water and for about a day without food.
Hospital “experts” assured everyone that young Alife would not survive more than a few moments after the ventilator had been removed.
On Monday, April 23, following the ruling of a UK court, 23-month-old Alfie Evans was removed from life support. This all leads me to ask, “What happened?” Most of the people who clapped on when Valvano gave his speech are still alive. The many times Thomas’ verse has been quoted approvingly and the times people have drawn inspiration from those words to fight on was not that long ago. I mention these examples of a more traditional attitude toward death because 19 were not that long ago.
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