Canadian Family Fights to Keep Boy's Breathing Tube in Place

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FoxNews.com:



The Canadian family of a 13-month-old boy teetering on life support has defied a court order to remove the boy’s breathing tube and now are looking to an American hospital for what experts say would be a miracle recovery.

The boy, Joseph Maraachli, has been in a vegetative state at a hospital in London, Ontario, since last fall. He’s been treated for a neurodegenerative disease that doctors ruled leaves no hope for the boy.

A Superior Court judge, in turn, ordered that Maraachli’s breathing tube be removed on Monday. But his family refused, insisting that the boy be released to his family’s care, according to CBC News. The family says removing the ventilator would promise an agonizing death for the boy. They asked that doctors at least perform a tracheotomy that would allow Joseph to die at home, but the Canadian hospital has refused.


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I Googled the disease, a lot of research is being done, but as yet no cure has been found.

I guess this is what is going to happen under Ocare. But I wonder if insurance cos. would finance keeping him alive with the diagnosis he has?

I never had any kids, but I can still imagine what they are going through. 'Let the kid die' isn't something a parent wants to hear. Like them, I would do anything to try to save my son.