The patient is 18, not 81.
No indications organs are shutting down.
I understand in the UK-they pay incredible amounts of taxes for universal health care.
Now they are rationing medical care for UK citizens?
I wonder why, what with the reports of free elective cosmetic surgery, and sex change operations, a true medical need for care is a worry for the hospital doctors or the courts.
Are they now looking at ROI (Returns on Investments)?
Or are they judging quality of life?
Is there a published chart for citizens to know exactly when they have exceeded their share of “free” medical care, or have been judged useless to the government?
Again, no indications of organ failure in this article.
So they are not artificially animating a dead body.
Unless you have more information not posted here.....
All I can say is that I am prolife but I see no problem in withdrawing futile care.
And there is one major organ failure, the brain in this case.