Ont. couple's appeal to bring baby home dismissed (death, doctor, infections)

[Jadex]

LONDON, Ont. — A Windsor, Ont. couple's fight to bring their gravely ill baby home to die ended in bitter tears Thursday when a Superior Court judge dismissed their appeal to stop doctors from removing the infant's breathing tube at the hospital.

Ont. couple's appeal to bring baby home dismissed (http://www.vancouversun.com/health/couple+appeal+bring+baby+home+dismissed/4304482/story.html - broken link)

How terrible that the parents have no say in their childs life like this.

[Zimbochick]

Yeah, it's worth reading through this entire article, it's not as cut and dried as it appears on first glance. It's a very complicated situation for sure.

[KoobleKar]

Yeah.....they've accepted that their child will die and only want that to happen in the presence of family members.

I don't really understand why the doctor's object to a tracheotomy on the grounds that it may spawn infections and such when he's going to die anyhow. Removing the breating tube will cause him to choke to death....not a very pleasant way to die.