When is it in a child’s best interest to die? These two questions, painful to ask and still more difficult to answer, lie at the heart of the tragedy of Alfie Evans. For the parents’ case does not depend on delusion and fanaticism. It is a well-established principle of English law that there are some circumstances where a child’s best interests are not represented by their parents. The much more difficult cases arise when the doctors believe there is no hope and the parents refuse to accept this.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2018 15:56 UTC