If you read the article, the patient cannot really move, is not fully sentient and cannot make decisions for himself. He is irreparably brain-damaged and dying.
The hospital workers must feel like they are torturing a caged animal.
Mom and Dad have been fighting for years for this kid, and cannot stop their fighting even when it is for the best.
Life is like that, so annoying for the staff.
Thank God we're finally getting to a time where laws will mandate that staff annoyance assessment comes before a family's fight for their child's life.
I mean, is just a matter of obvious, simple resource allocation. I for one can't understand why people don't show a little respect for optimum systems throughout.
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.....