A terminally ill baby and a court that stops his life-prolonging measures – against the wishes of the parents: what happened in England to little Indi Gregory and her family would be legally possible in Austria – but in practice it would probably be the exception. We have conducted research into the situation surrounding legal euthanasia.
The grief of Indi’s parents must be unimaginable: the eight-month-old girl, who suffered from an incurable mitochondrial disease due to a genetic defect, died in a hospice in Nottingham on Monday evening.
Just hours earlier, life-sustaining measures had been stopped by order of the Supreme Court. The parents had fought to be able to take their child to Rome; he is said to have received further treatment at the Vatican Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù.
But the English court did not allow this either: the doctors were convinced that further treatment of the child would only have prolonged the child’s suffering with no prospect of improvement and would only have caused him unnecessary pain. How would that have gone in Austria?
Source: Krone
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