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Originally Posted by Niamh.
Oh OK, if that's the case then I completely understand why they're fighting, if there's any chance of saving him, wouldn't every parent fight tooth and nail to try?
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The issue is that neurological damage can only ever be halted, it can't be reversed... And if doctors here have assessed the child as being beyond recovery, then attempting to prolong his life with pioneering treatments isn't necessarily the right thing to do.
These cases are the toughest ones really because like the dad says, what you actually see is a "healthy looking boy" and we have instincts for identifying people who are very ill or dying. If a dying family member LOOKS very ill, people tend to accept it. But in these cases, there's nothing wrong with their physical bodies so they can look physically totally fine even when effectively brain dead. I think it creates a situation for family that's very hard to process.