Boy battling cancer wakes from coma as family agree to cut life support
NZ Herald 3 April 2018
Family First Comment: A perfect example of why euthanasia is so dangerous – not only for adults but also for children. Don’t let the politicians go near it!
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A two-year-old boy in the UK woke up from a coma right after his family agreed to switch him off life support.
Dylan Askin, from Shelton Lock, Derbyshire, suffered from a very rare type of lung cancer. He received the one-in-ten-million diagnosis of Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH).
On Good Friday of 2016, Dylan’s outlook was so tragic the parents made the heartbreaking decision to turn off his life support the following day.
Little Dylan fought through and, by Easter Sunday, was deemed to be in “stable” condition.
Two years on, Dylan has beaten cancer.
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