“Archie died at 12.15pm today,” Hollie Dance, the boy’s mother, who had been kept in a coma in an east London hospital since April, told TV. “He fought until the very end,” she added, in tears.
The treatments that kept the young boy alive had been interrupted about two hours earlier, after his parents had exhausted all legal remedies, before British and European justice, to oppose the cessation of treatment, then to request his transfer to a palliative care facility.
From Saturday morning, flowers or candles arranged to form an A or a heart were placed by supporters at the foot of a statue, facing the hospital.
An online challenge
Archie Battersbee was considered brain dead and British justice had authorized the hospital in mid-July to end the treatments that kept him alive.
His parents, Hollie Dance and Paul Battersbee, supported by a Christian organization, had taken final legal action to have their son left the Royal London Hospital and transferred to a palliative care facility, in vain.
The child was found unconscious at his home on April 7 and had never regained consciousness since. According to his mother, he participated in a social media challenge to hold his breath until he passed out.
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