The Archie Battersbee case: Life, death and all the hard decisions in between

Archie Battersbee.
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SUBSCRIBETHE tragic case of Archie Battersbee, who died this morning, according to his family, has led to an outpouring of sympathy for his parents, and focused attention on laws around consent and life support systems.
As people listen to his mother, they ask what they would do in her place or if they were the doctors or judges.
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