Surely they can review brain activity and determine this with precision. A brain can be dead, but body metabolism can be maintained for as long as someone is wi

Surely they can review brain activity and determine this with precision. A brain can be dead, but body metabolism can be maintained for as long as someone is willing to fund it, with food etc., so at what point is a person dead? If the parents can fund this process, but their own means, this is fine. Even a fund raiser is fine. At some point they will be forced by economics to stop when sources run out. As for the state? It looks as if the NHS has assessed this and has provided evidence to the judiciary, and they agree. There are many wealthy families who have maintained their brain dead kin for man many years. The Schumacher saga is one. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/michael-schumacher-ski-accident-10360005 https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/michael-schumacher-.... That family can afford this, this one can not, thus the HNS etc might well be placed on the hook for huge costs - which the judge said is not in the public interest. Goin to Italy looks like some crooked Italian doctors looking for a cash cow, which under the EC rules can pass these huge costs to the NHS. Enough is enough, stop the effective torture of this poor child.