'We hope no family has to go through what we have been through': Archie Battersbee's family say 12-year-old's death was '野蛮な' as group calls for '緊急の review and 改革（する）' after schoolboy's 事例／患者

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Archie Battersbee's family has?said they 'want something good to come out of this 悲劇' as they 公約するd to call for 'change' に引き続いて the 12-year-old's death yesterday.

The schoolboy passed away in hospital at 12.15pm on Saturday surrounded by his family after his life-support 治療 was 孤立した at 10am.

He was 存在 kept alive by a combination of 医療の 介入s, 含むing ventilation and 麻薬 治療s.

Doctors 扱う／治療するing the schoolboy for the last four months 宣言するd Archie to be 'brain-茎・取り除く dead', 誘発するing a 非常に長い but 最終的に failed 合法的な 戦う／戦い by his family to continue his life support 治療 in the hope he would 回復する.

In 最近の days, his parents had made 企て，努力，提案s to the High 法廷，裁判所, 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 and European 法廷，裁判所 of Human 権利s to have him transferred to a hospice to die, but these were 拒絶するd.

In a 声明 解放（する）d through the Christian 合法的な Centre, which has been 伴う／関わるd in the 事例／患者, the family said today: 'Yesterday we lost our beautiful boy, Archie. He has fought against all the 半端物s since April, and we are so proud of him.

'We are thankful for the 抱擁する 量 of support we've received from so many different people. We are 感謝する to our 合法的な team and others who have stood with us as we have 直面するd these difficult challenges.

'We want something good to come out of this 悲劇 and the horrendous experience we have been put through by the system. No parent or family must go through this again. We have been 軍隊d to fight a relentless 合法的な 戦う／戦い by the Hospital 信用 while 直面するd with an unimagi nable 悲劇.

'We were 支援するd into a corner by the system, stripped of all our 権利s, and have had to fight for Archie's real ''best 利益／興味s'' and 権利 to live with everything stacked against us. This has now happened too often to parents who do not want their 批判的に ill children to have life-support 除去するd.

'The 圧力 of the 過程 has been unbelievable. There must be an 調査 and 調査 through the proper channels on what has happened to Archie, and we will be calling for change.'

The family 解放（する）d a new photo of their beloved boy as part of their 尊敬の印, showing the youngster smiling while dressed in a smart grey 控訴 and blue 屈服する tie.

支持者s have been lighting candles and leaving flowers outside the 王室の London?Hospital in Whitechapel, east London, where Archie was 存在 扱う／治療するd.

Mother Hollie Dance and aunt Ella were の中で の近くに 親族s who told reporters yesterday he had died.

Hollie said: 'It is our deepest sadness to tell you all that Archie passed at 12.15 today.?

'Can I just say that I'm the proudest mum in the world, such a beautiful little boy, and he fought 権利 until the very end - and I am so proud to be his mum.'

All were visibly heartbroken, 特に as Ms Carter 述べるd Archie's final moments. She said: 'He was taken off all 医薬 at 10 o'clock. His entire stats remained 完全に stable for two hours until they 減ずるd ventilation. And then he went 完全に blue.'

The family 慰安d each other as they broke 負かす／撃墜する in 涙／ほころびs, before turning away and leaving the area.?

The fianc?e of Archie's eldest brother Tom,?Ella Rose Carter, said: 'There is 絶対 nothing dignified about watching a family member or a child 窒息させる.

'We hope no family has to go through what we have been through. It's 野蛮な.'

The 12-year-old had been in a 昏睡 since he was 設立する unconscious by his mother on April 7.?

His family believe he may have been taking part in an online Tiktok?challenge after he was 設立する unconscious by his mother with a cord wrapped around his neck.?

長，指導者 医療の officer at Barts Health NHS 信用 Alistair Chesser said: 'Archie Battersbee passed away on Saturday afternoon at The 王室の London Hospital after 治療 was 孤立した in line with 法廷，裁判所 判決，裁定s about his best 利益／興味s.

'Members of his family were 現在の at the 病人の枕元 and our thoughts and 深く心に感じた 弔慰s remain with them at this difficult time.

'The 信用 would like to thank the 医療の, nursing and support staff in the paediatric 集中的な care department who looked after Archie に引き続いて his awful 事故.?

'They 供給するd high 質 care with 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の compassion over several months in often trying and 苦しめるing circumstances. This 悲劇の 事例／患者 not only 影響する／感情d the family and his carers but touched the hearts of many across the country.'

Archie's mother, Hollie Dance, said last night she is 'broken', but has done everything she 約束d Archie she would do in her fight to give him more time.

In an emotional interview with Sky News, she said: 'The last however many weeks since 7th April, I don't think there's been a day that hasn't been awful really.

'It's been really hard. にもかかわらず the hard strong 直面する and 外見 明白に in 前線 of the cameras up until now, I've been pretty broken.

'Archie really is the heart of our family, he is so loved. He leaves an 衝撃 wherever he goes. He's a lovable little boy. Very bubbly - he's just happy all of the time.'?

After fighting to 持続する life support 治療 in the hope he would 回復する にもかかわらず 多重の 専門家s 証言するing to the contrary, the family lost a last-溝へはまらせる／不時着する 戦う／戦い to move him to a hospice to die '平和的に', after doctors said it was too risky.

His loved ones held on to the hope he would get better, but doctors 警告するd in April he had little chance of 回復, before 説 they believed him to be 'brain 茎・取り除く dead' - which is considered 非，不，無-recoverable. 連続する 法廷，裁判所s heard that all of Archie's bodily 機能（する）／行事s were 扶養家族 on hospital 機械／機構.

Floral and candle 尊敬の印s were left outside the 王室の London Hospital in dedication to Archie. Family friends and 支持者s of their （選挙などの）運動をする gathered in 団結 o utside its 入り口.?

Shelley Elias, 43, said she had come to the 王室の London Hospital because she '手配中の，お尋ね者 his mum Hollie and the family to know I was thinking of them'.

Mrs Elias, a mother of two from Stepney, east London, who said she ばく然と knew Archie's mother, brought flowers, a card and some candles.

She said: 'I did not know what to 令状 because there are no words that will take the 苦痛 away. I just 手配中の，お尋ね者 the mum and her family to know that I am here for them.

'My boy is 12, the same age as Archie, and this just puts things in 視野. When things like this happen, you just think 'I have nothing to moan about in life'.'

Candles flickered in the 形態／調整 of the letter 'A' and also formed a love heart around a card with Archie's 指名する in a 一時しのぎの物，策 尊敬の印 at a statue in 前線 of the hospital.

It was created by passers-by who said they 手配中の，お尋ね者 to show their support.

Archie's 事例／患者 is just one of 多重の 最近の 悲劇s where parents have fought against doctors' 決定／判定勝ち（する）s to stop 供給するing life support to their children, after it has been decided it is no longer in their best 利益／興味s.

Most agree such 戦う／戦いs are 極端に difficult for all 関心d, and there are calls to review 現在の 法律制定 around 明言する／公表する and parental 権利s ーするために 避ける children's lives 存在 fought over in 類似の 出来事/事件s in the 未来.

Such 事例／患者s are always ひどく contested, and the 関与 of 宗教的な groups can make 決定／判定勝ち（する）s all the more difficult for family and friends.?

Archie's doctors argued in 法廷，裁判所 that he was almost certainly 'brain dead' and その上の 治療 was not in his best 利益／興味s. They said Archie had 苦しむd 'irreversible 停止 of brain 茎・取り除く 機能（する）／行事' and had d ied at the end of May.

But his family 同意しないd: Hollie 述べるd Archie gripping her 手渡す, 開始 his 注目する，もくろむs and even crying. Doctors ran 実験（する）s in the wake of this but 設立する no 改良 in Archie's 条件.?

Archie's mother 以前 said: 'I know I've done a very good 職業 存在 Archie's mum. Based on my own childhood I was 決定するd to be as good as a mother as I can かもしれない be and I feel like I have done that to the very best of my ability. It's one of the 推論する／理由s I am here.'

She continued: 'All I have ever asked is to get him to six months ? where is the 害（を与える） in that for them? They have spent a fortune on 合法的な 料金s fighting me in 法廷，裁判所 ? money they could have spent on Archie's care and others'.'

'There has been a lot of 焦点（を合わせる） on Archie's dignity, and I passionately believe that the most 尊厳死 for him would be away from the machines and noise of a hospital 区.'?

'At its heart this has been a 事例／患者 about a mother's love, but also their 権利s. At what point did Archie's dad and I lose our parental 権利s ーに関して／ーの点でs of deciding what we want for our child?'

の近くに family friend and ボクシング coach Ollie Bessell 株d news on social マスコミ that the 過程 of 身を引くing 治療 had begun.

He said: 'I have the heartbreaking 責任／義務 to let all of our 信奉者s know that this morning, The 王室の London Hospital began the 除去 of Archie's life support system.

'Talking from a personal point of 見解（をとる）, this is a hard one to take. A few weeks ago, I was sat in a room with Archie and I felt the life in him. Although he was not in a good position, he was still very much there.'

Doctors 扱う／治療するing the schoolboy for the last four months 宣言するd Archie to be 'brain-茎・取り除く dead' in May, 誘発するing a 非常に長い but ulti mately failed 合法的な 戦う／戦い by his family to continue his life support 治療 in the hope he would 回復する.?

Barts Health NHS 信用 had said 以前 that no changes will be made to Archie's care 'until the 優れた 合法的な 問題／発行するs are 解決するd'.?

Archie's parents 適用するd to the 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 on Friday, after losing a High 法廷，裁判所 企て，努力，提案 to have him moved to a hospice before his life-支えるing 治療 is 孤立した.

The 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 確認するd that 許可 to 控訴，上告 had been 辞退するd.

In a 判決，裁定 at the High 法廷，裁判所 on Friday morning (August 5) Mrs 司法（官） Theis 結論するd it was not in Archie's best 利益／興味s to be moved from 王室の London Hospital, as it could 急いで his 悪化／低下.?

In the same 事例／患者, she 支配するd that the 供給（する） of palliative oxygen, which is used to 上げる oxygen levels in breathless 患者s, 'should be left to the 臨床の team on the ground.' It is unknown at this 行う／開催する／段階 whether Archie received oxygen after ventilation had been 減ずるd.

She 追加するd: 'Sadly, the 証拠 points to it 存在 ありそうもない he will breathe once 治療 is 孤立した 予定 his 厳しく 妥協d 医療の position and the extent of his 傷害s.'

After the update from the 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 on 存在 moved to a hospice, （選挙などの）運動をする group Christian 関心 - which is supporting the family - said Archie's 合法的な team 適用するd to the European 法廷，裁判所 again.?

They challenged the High 法廷，裁判所 判決，裁定 made on Friday morning, arguing that there has been a 違反 of articles six and eight of the European 条約 on Human 権利s, the group said.?

Article six is the 権利 to a fair 裁判，公判 and article eight is the 権利 to 尊敬（する）・点 for 私的な and family life. But the 法廷，裁判所 拒絶する／低下するd to become 伴う／関わるd in the 事例／患者 after the UK 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告's 裁判／判断.?

The family had sought 許可 in the UK to challenge Mrs 司法（官） Theis's 判決，裁定 but the 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 裁判官s considering the 使用／適用 結論するd the High 法廷，裁判所 裁判官 had dealt 'comprehensively with each of the points raised on に代わって of the parents'.?

The 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 裁判官s said they had 'reached the （疑いを）晴らす 結論 that each of her 決定／判定勝ち（する）s was 権利 for the 推論する／理由s she gave'.?

They 追加するd: 'It follows that the 提案するd 控訴，上告 has no prospect of success and there is no other 説得力のある 推論する／理由 for the 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 to hear an 控訴，上告.'?

The 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 裁判官s also said one of the arguments 現在のd by Archie's parents was '欠陥d 合法的に', 追加するing: 'It is also not 平易な to understand as it 捜し出すs to argue that Archie's best 利益／興味s have 中止するd to be 関連した.'?

Hollie and Paul, Archie's father, 述べるd the 圧力 of the 合法的な 戦う／戦い as '巨大な'.

Hollie 追加するd: 'Time after time we have been told at the last minute that we have until 9am the に引き続いて day to sort our submissions. It has been very difficult.?

'All the way through I 港／避難所't had a chance to 過程 everything that has happened.?

'All I have known is that I can't let my guard 負かす／撃墜する and break 負かす／撃墜する emotionally because the second I do that I won't have the strength to fight for my little boy.'

Hollie 公約するd to give her dying son mouth-to-mouth if doctors 否定する him oxygen after 身を引くing life support.

She said: 'All our wishes as a family have been 否定するd by the 当局. We are broken, but we are keeping going, because we love Archie and 辞退する to give up on him.'?

His doctors said Archie's 条件 is too 安定性のない for a 移転 and that moving him by 救急車 to a different setting 'would most likely 急いで the premature 悪化／低下 the family wish to 避ける, even with 十分な 集中的な care 器具／備品 and staff on the 旅行'.??

Mrs 司法（官） Theis agreed with medics on Friday and said:?'He should remain at the hospital… I hope now Archie can be afforded the 適切な時期 to die in 平和的な circumstances, with the family who meant so much to him, as he 明確に does to them.'?

In her 判決，裁定, the 裁判官 also 辞退するd the parents' 使用／適用 for a new 専門家 to give an 査定／評価 of the 危険s of 移転 to a hospice, 追加するing that she understood 'the enormity of what lays ahead for Archie's parents and the family' and that 'their 無条件の love and dedication to Archie is a golden thread that runs through this 事例／患者'.

Archie's loved ones had 誓約（する）d to 'fight to the end' with their last-minute 企て，努力，提案 to have him transferred to die in a hospice 'with dignity' - with one centre already 用意が出来ている to take in the boy if it is 認めるd 許可 to do so, によれば a family spokesperson.?

But they have now reached the end of the line after the 法廷，裁判所 of 控訴，上告 辞退するd to hear an 控訴，上告 against Friday's hospice 判決，裁定.

Ms Dance said she 手配中の，お尋ね者 her son to 'spend his last moments' together with family 個人として, complaining of a 欠如（する） of privacy at the hospital.?

She told Times 無線で通信する on Thursday: 'We can't even have the chance to be in a room together as a family without nurses.'?

She 追加するd: 'There's 絶対 no privacy, which is why, again, the 法廷，裁判所s keep going on about this 尊厳死 - why aren't we 許すd to take our child to a hospice and spend his last moments, his last days together 個人として??

'Why is the hospital 妨害するing it?'?

A High 法廷，裁判所 order made in July 要求するs that Archie remains at the 王室の London Hospital while his 治療 is 孤立した, a 判決，裁定 which was 最終的に upheld yesterday.

The 事例／患者 is the 最新の in a series that have pitted parents against Britain's 法廷，裁判所 and healthcare systems.

After a 高度に 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金d 戦う／戦い between the hospital and his parents, 23-month-old Alfie Evans died in April 2018 when doctors in Liverpool, in northwestern England, withdrew life support.

His parents, who had the support of ローマ法王 Francis, 手配中の，お尋ね者 to take him to a clinic in Rome but lost a final 法廷，裁判所 控訴，上告 just days before he died.

Charlie Gard, born in August 2016 with a rare form of mitochondrial 病気 that 原因（となる）s 進歩／革新的な muscle 証拠不十分, died one week short of his first birthday after doctors withdrew life support.

His parents had fought a five-month 合法的な 戦う／戦い for him to be taken to the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs for 実験の 治療.

His 事例／患者 drew 幅の広い sympathy, 含むing from then US 大統領，／社長 Donald Trump and ローマ法王 Francis, while 350,000 people 調印するd a 嘆願（書） 需要・要求するing he be 許すd to go to the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs.

Barts Health NHS 信用, which runs the hospital where Archie resides, had told his 荒廃させるd family members it would 除去する mechanical 介入 at 11am on Thursday after the European 法廷，裁判所 of Human 権利s 辞退するd an 11th-hour 使用／適用 to continue 治療 the night before.

The Strasbourg 法廷，裁判所 said the 控訴，上告 was '認容できない', 追加するing that it would 認める such requests only 'on an exceptional basis' when 'the applicants would さもなければ 直面する a real 危険 of irreversible 害（を与える）'.?

In the 影響 Ms Dance 認める a 'dignified passing at a hospice' was all she had left to fight for, but the hospital 信用 said it would fight to stop him leaving the hospital as his 条件 is too 安定性のない to be moved.

The NHS 信用 gave Archie's family a 9am 最終期限 to 控訴，上告, and the 事例／患者 returned to the High 法廷，裁判所 one last time yesterday afternoon in 前線 of Mrs 司法（官） Theis.

Asked what the last 溝へはまらせる／不時着する 試みる／企てる was going to be like, Ms Dance grew tearful and said: 'It's going be awful today.

'I woke up 絶対 sick to my stomach. Like I just feel this hospital have so much to answer for and I don't really know what else to say today.'

In a 声明?Ms Dance said: 'If Archie is 否定するd oxygen if and when life-support is 除去するd I will continue to give him oxygen.

'I pray that the High 法廷，裁判所 will do the 権利 thing. If they 辞退する 許可 for us to take him to a hospice and for him to receive palliative oxygen it will 簡単に be 非人道的な and nothing about Archie's 'dignity'.

'The whole system has been stacked against us.

'改革（する） must now come through Charlie's 法律 so that no parents have to go through this. We will fight to the end for Archie's 権利 to live.'