Good bye, my lovely baby

A father’s heart was broken pieces when he decided to let his baby who was almost over a year go to heaven. He had taken care of his baby for a year beside the sickbed. The baby’s mother was standing at a law court with tears in her eyes.


A high court of justice judged that it was no use for the baby born with myasthenia, 13 months, ‘Arby’(false name), to be treated for the prolongation of his life so they decided mercy killing, reported by British on November 10th.


Even though the baby was not damaged in his brain, he suffered from a rare malady which is being unable to control almost every muscle. He couldn’t move, speak and laugh. He had been saving his breath on a pulmotor since his birth. The baby’s mother accepted the judgment as she couldn’t see her baby’s pain any longer. Nevertheless, the baby’s father was unwilling to accept the decision. He wanted to make his baby live by inserting a tube in the baby’s neck to provide oxygen as a bronchotomy(the operation’s name). It was hard to believe that neither parents’ earnestness nor high developed medical technique could save the baby. As the argument at the law court went on, their bodies and mind got exhausted.


The judge, Mac Palein, who made the judgment said, “Considering lots of medical views and evidence, mercy killing is the only reasonable decision.” “The baby would be painful and uncomfortable everyday and every time, and his pain can not be expressed because he can’t move and make sound at all”, he added. A medical scientist, Andrew Bush, supported the judgment of the court, saying the least life quality of the baby can’t ratify the prolongation of his life.