"I'm ill, but I want to live." Hospital asks judge to end her life
UNITED KINGDOM
British doctors want to end the life of a fully conscious 19-year-old schoolgirl in intensive care because she can't get better. And the judge agrees, the girl’s will doesn’t count
ST is a young 19-year-old girl who has spent the last year being treated in an intensive care unit in a hospital. She wants to live but her doctors have decided that her illness offers no prospect of improvement and therefore she should die immediately. Unlike cases where the patient is an unconscious baby, child or adult supposedly on death’s doorstep, ST is a young adult, completely conscious, capable of making decisions, who has expressly stated her will to live. Nonetheless, the court has taken away her right to decide for her life. This is the case today in the UK, which marks an ulterior step in the barbarism that has become a hallmark of the British National Health Service (NHS).
The story of ST (real name suppressed due …