Our reporter Nadine Van der Linden about an impossible goodbye: “With their parental love they wanted to be stronger than death”

What if it were my child? Any parent following the Archie Battersbee case feels the need to ask. What is the right decision about someone’s death, if hope is still alive? If you’re just not ready to say goodbye? “Archie’s parents see this as a personal failure”, writes our journalist Nadine Van Der Linden. “Rather than an exhausting lawyers’ war, I would have given them buckets of comfort.”

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