Terminally ill Archie died

The mother had announced on Friday that the equipment should be turned off on Saturday morning.

England

Teddy JAANS

The mother had announced on Friday that the equipment should be turned off on Saturday morning.

(dpa) – The terminally ill English boy Archie is dead. He died on Saturday at 12.15 p.m., his mother Hollie Dance said, according to the PA news agency, in the afternoon outside the London hospital where Archie was connected to life-support equipment for the past few months. The mother had announced on Friday that the equipment should be turned off on Saturday morning.

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Archie’s vital devices will likely be turned off soon. But where that will happen is still a matter for the British courts.

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Archie has been in a coma since April. He suffered serious brain injuries in an accident at home in Southend-on-Sea. The treating doctors saw no chance of recovery. The parents had recently failed before the Court of Appeal in London and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg with applications Moving Archie from the hospital to a hospice for his final hours.

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Archie’s vital devices will likely be turned off soon. But where that will happen is still a matter for the British courts.

Against the will of the parents, the twelve-year-old is supposed to die in a hospital.

The family of the terminally ill Archie has already fought through all instances in Great Britain to prevent his death – so far without success.

British Supreme Court

In the fight for the life of a terminally ill boy in England, his parents failed in the final court instance.