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Alfie Evans with his mother Kate James at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool, England Alfies Army Official

'My gladiator lay down his shield and gained his wings': Alfie Evans dies aged 23 months

He had been breathing independently for over four days.

TODDLER ALFIE EVANS has died at the age of 23 months having survived for over four days after his ventilator was turned off.

His father Tom Evans confirmed the news in a Facebook post this morning , saying that his son died at 2.30am this morning.

He had been fighting Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in court to take Alfie to Rome for continued medical care.

The 23-month-old had his ventilator removed late on Monday after his parents exhausted all legal avenues to stop a February court ruling permitting the move, but continued breathing independently this week.

In the Facebook post this morning, Tom Evans wrote: “My gladiator lay down his shield and gained his wings at 02:30. Absolutely heartbroken. I LOVE YOU MY GUY.”

Pope Francis intervened in the case that has attracted worldwide attention, writing on Twitter that he hoped the parents’ “desire to seek new forms of treatment may be granted”.

Italy previously said it was granting citizenship to the toddler and an Italian defence ministry medical evacuation plane is on standby to fly Evans to Italy.

The case is the latest in a series of high-profile battles between parents of ill children and the British authorities.

The most recent example was that of Charlie Gard, who was born in August 2016 with a rare form of mitochondrial disease.

He died last year, one week short of his first birthday, after doctors withdrew life support treatment.

Gard’s parents fought a five-month legal battle for him to be taken to the United States for experimental treatment.

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    Mute Rachel Durack Murray
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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:29 AM

    So sad. May little Alfie be at peace.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:32 AM

    RIP Alfie.
    Unfortunately this was inevitably going to be the end result whether in the UK or Italy – no winners here.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:40 AM

    @Walt Jabsco: The family were aware of that. However, all they wanted was a chance at a diagnosis and to see if there was treatment there. They never once claimed he would be cured but they at least wanted to investigate. AH have allowed their Alfie to die with no answers. The hosp kept going on the no quality of life argument. I would absolutely fear for my child and what a court could do if they ever got sick. Stripping parents of all their rights and puttin a baby into the hands of a judge. How do they expext to find any answers for 2 cases now, and even at that Im not sure Charlie and Alfie even had the same condition as Alfie was undiagnosed) if they jst cut their lives off soon as they see fit. Sometimes doctors get it wrong and I strongly believe this was one of those times.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:50 AM

    @Christine Hanway: the poor child had an irreversible,neurodegenerative illness that was estimated to have damaged the majority of the white matter in his brain. Palliative care was the only available option and no further diagnosis or experimental treatment was going to change that, it’s a terrible tragedy for his parents but his doctors were no – without a shadow of a doubt – acting in his best interests.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 12:59 PM

    @Dietrich Död: I used to think every parent would fight to save there child , but as we can see from some of the other articals that are populer at the moment that is not the case, very sad how little life is valued anymore

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    Apr 28th 2018, 1:12 PM

    @Christine Hanway: Alfie was the patient the doctors had to look after. If you think for a second they wouldn’t do everything within reason to help him you are extremely wrong. They also have a duty not to let him be experimented on with zero hope of a cure. I totally get that his parents would have done anything for him but that has to be within reason and offset any side effects which the doctors and judge did not see.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 1:12 PM

    @Deborah Behan: RIP Alfie.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 4:00 PM

    @Elvis King:
    Alfie was being kept artificially alive with zero prospect of recovery, and was incapable of surviving independently.
    Without medical intervention he would have died months ago. That is the sad reality.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 5:30 PM

    @Christine Hanway: ‘Sometimes doctors get it wrong’, a lot of the time parents get it wrong. The content of your comment is extremely dangerous and is an over-flowing barrel of ignorance.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:39 AM

    That is just too heart-breaking and so unfair. Why good and decent families and beautiful innocent children dealt such cruel cruel fate?.. The little angel is at peace but his family left in acute pain for a long time. Not bloody fair!

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    Apr 28th 2018, 1:13 PM

    @DrDucati: you hit the nail on the head there.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:29 AM

    Some little fighter. RIP

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:12 AM

    There were some very ugly and dangerous developments around the case of this helpless child. The intervention of the Vatican, the Italian state and off course the malignant media did not serve the interests of the baby. Religious fundamentalism and the hatred that goes with it was core to this issue. The fact that the little child potentially could still be subject to severe distress was not at all considered, was of no consequence, to the responsible parties.
    The case of Terri Sciavo in the early 2000s in America has definite resonances:
    The case of Terri Schiavo and the crisis of politics and culture in the United States
    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/04/schi-a04.html

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:31 AM

    @PV Nevin:
    Little Alfie has passed away now, his parents who did everything in their power to save him are left heartbroken.
    Your goal has been achieved.
    Go away and take your gloating celebrations elsewhere.
    RIP.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:50 AM

    @Gene Dexter: What are you applying here? That PV Nevin wished for the boy to die? That’s ridiculous, and if somebody wished him to die, it was your God (but of course, he does not exist or is a cruel animal).

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:50 AM

    @PV Nevin: Or maybe they just loved that child more than anything in this world and would do anything to keep him alive. I know I would.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:39 AM

    @man.over.board: Loving someone is letting them go as peacefully and painlessly as possible. Loving someone is making the right decisions for them for the right reasons. Sometimes some of us are asked to make very painful hard decisions.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 2:34 PM

    @PV Nevin: totally agree

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    Apr 28th 2018, 3:47 PM

    @Gene Dexter:
    I thought I had posted a reply to your comment; but perhaps I did not do it properly.
    Your comments about me actually apply to yourself.
    Human and animal medicine both have discovered that someone in Alfie Evans’ predicament can very readily suffer distressing seizures when taken out of sedation.
    Wishing that the child is removed from pointless suffering is in my opinion the humane and only justifiable course of action.
    You say: ” his parents who did everything in their power to save him are left heartbroken.”
    The child’s life was over before he died. Maintaining him on life support was actually something that could not be justified, from the cosideration of suffering of the child itself.
    You cast your spiteful comments. Religion is a chronic problem in society that brings misery, and hides the real discoverable truth of the world behind beliefs that cannot be substantiated in any way.
    The democratic position ever since the Enlightenment is that a person’s right to practice their religion should be protected constitutionally; but that same religion has no right to impose itself on society in general – including in science and medecine.
    My view of Alfie Evans’ father is that he was just as much driven by religious bigotry as consideration for his child; and in this he was ably supported by a rotten media that is always interested in promoting backwardness.
    Truth, scientific, verifiable truth, is something that is a weapon for progress and the aim of most people – an enlightened society based on equality and a socialised, that is socialist, world economy.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 4:51 PM

    @Jindrich Marz: Maybe God had nothing to do with it. Maybe Alfie and others like him recieved a vaccine/immunisation that caused the illness. Maybe all these children’s hospitals are just research facilities for the rich wealthy elite to experiment on our kids in order to find cures for their kids and family.

    Also jindrich, you keep claiming that God does not exist and is a fairytale. Could you please prove your claim using factual evidence, or are you just blowing crap out of your *ss?

    I expect some evidence and not some dumb, boring, unwitty retort such as ‘you prove God exists first’. If that’s your reply then don’t bother.

    Your evidence that FACTUALLY proves God does not exist please?

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    Apr 28th 2018, 4:59 PM

    @PV Nevin: Maybe its science and medicine that is leaving the whole world ill. Did you ever see this. Bill Gates on depopulating the planet

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lR8PLPYfyhM

    Just google keywords bill gates depopulation. There is lots of videos on this issue.
    God is not the problem, man is.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 6:46 PM

    @PV Nevin: How is it possible to advocate for truth while espousing lies?

    Science is your great truth teller, yet published science is no better than the flip of a coin when it comes to documenting what is true, in many cases science is much worse than flipping a coin.

    The foundations of our Western values, beliefs and virtues are rooted in Christianity, in spite of the great secularisation. Even something so basic as the idea that a woman can be raped is uniquely found in Christian societies, other societies do not condem it, or to the degree that they do, is proportional to how much they have been influenced by Christianity.

    Christianity taught the intrinsic value of the individual man, woman and child.

    Christianity taught that the world was understanable, which is why Europe led the world in scientific discovery. The idea that science and Christianity are at war with each other is a falsehood. When you understand that modern secular scientists are incentivised to lie via money, yet Christian scientists of the past were motivated by faith in God to understand the world truthfully, it paints a vivid picture as to why so many published science today cannot be reproduced.

    As for your other comments related to Alfie and his family, I have to make the assumption that they are also lies.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:09 PM

    @Puking Tiger: you started with anti vax rhetoric and ended up all religious. Here is the thing…. It’s on the person claiming god exists to prove it. That’s the scientific method… But you probably don’t believe in science.

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    Apr 29th 2018, 2:39 AM

    @Dave Thomas: Of course I value opinions in science. Have you never read the theory about the origins of the universe? It has been a century and more in the works. It is known as the big bang theory.
    Why would I feel the need to prove God exists when (your) science proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that a Creator of all exists.

    Over to you now Dave. The ball is in your court.

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    Apr 29th 2018, 4:20 AM

    @PV Nevin: Aye or an experimental chamber for mad scientists. I think I will stick with Jesus.

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    Apr 29th 2018, 8:54 AM

    @Puking Tiger: I see you dumbphuckers were out late.

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    Apr 29th 2018, 10:44 AM

    @Puking Tiger: If you want people to believe in God, you should provide a proof of his existence.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:26 AM

    RIP little man.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:34 AM

    Just heartbreaking

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:41 AM

    RIP Alfie , you fought all you could

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:29 AM

    A terrible loss, but also such a shame his parents turned the whole thing into such a circus instead of allowing him the dignity he deserved.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:47 AM

    @Dave Gillen: Not the time for comments like this. You are entitled to your opinion, granted, but a very young boy has just lost his life. Save your cynicism for another day.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:51 AM

    @Dave Gillen: disgusting comment. As a parent you will go to the ends of the earth for your children. Perhaps one day you may be a patent and will understand the heartbreak and frustration that these parents went through. I hope however you never have to face such a dreadful situation.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:47 AM

    @Dave Phelan: very well said Dave. Tom cant be held responsible for what every media outlet chose to post or report on. I dont condone the chanting at the hospital as there were other sick kids there. But if it were me an my child I wouldnt be chanting I would be screaming from the top of my lungs if I was in the situation.. and I most certainly wouldn’t care for peoples opinions on it. The worse part of it all… that hospital silenced them parents on a promise of allowing him home to pass with his parents. He still passed within those 4 walls of that hosp. I believe we have not heard the last of this case. I jst hope his parents stand strong like they have done the last few mths fighting for their son but they shud be left to grieve on peace now for the most difficult part of it all.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:56 AM

    @Aimee Robertson: Unfortunately, it might be the time. We as a society need to have a discussion about accepting the fact that life is terminal.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:17 AM

    @Aimee Robertson: this is exactly the time to discuss it

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    Apr 28th 2018, 11:57 AM

    @Aimee Robertson: And when was the right time for parents of other sick and dying children to have to run a gauntlet of screaming protestors and cross a police cordon because of the selfishness of Alfies parents? What about the staff who were abused for trying to do their jobs? Now is exactly the time to raise it, in two week time it’ll be completely forgotten and those protestors who were ignoring the facts in this case will have jumped on some other band wagon.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:46 AM

    Rest in Peace little Man, you are in Safe Hands Now!

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:39 AM

    So so sad! RIP Alfie.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:21 AM

    So do you believe the child should have been kept on life support with no future or quality of life?

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:48 AM

    @Daniel Sneyd: This is a discussion for another day, not mere hours after a child has died.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:19 AM

    @Aimee Robertson: no now is exactly the time to discuss it, children die all the time all over the world,

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    Apr 28th 2018, 2:38 PM

    @Aimee Robertson: you’d wear this was your child the way you are going on..now is as good as a time to discuss the ethics about dealing with terminal illness in infants, the poor little guy is no longer suffering and thankfully did not have that pro longed..no one is disputing how upsetting it is but you’re attitude of “not discussing it now” is ridiculous

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:10 AM

    I hope tom & kate get comfort in knowing we were all supporting them, seek privacy now in the grief & in time seek justice for laws to be changed for cases like this.
    So very very sad.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:41 AM

    @Jane: law doesn’t need to be changed. Hopefully science finds cures to help more kids like this in the future

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:44 AM

    @Jane: Change the laws so that charlatans can exploit parents of children with terminal illnesses? Bambino Gesu were only interested in profits. They were not offering any active/additional curative or ameliorative treatment, merely insertion of a breathing and feeding tube to keep Alfie in a state of perpetual purgatory with no prospect of recovery, rather a prolonged and horrible existence. UK law protected Alfie here and allowed him some dignity in the end.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:20 AM

    @Jane: no laws need changing,

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:57 AM

    RIP Little guy. Those who say they favor socialism must be made to confront this inhumanity, which is an integral part of socialist implementation. When the government controls everything, the government defines everything, and humanity is crushed beneath petty rules and petty rulers.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:07 AM

    @Rory Toner: not the place for this. It was an independent judge not “the government “

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:12 AM

    The establishment decided….dont kid yourself …no respect for life . Becoming so prevalent thinking. Every excuse and justification used to extinguish a young life . Shocking .

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:26 AM

    @Joe O’riordan: seriously? Can’t argue with rhetoric.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:31 AM

    @Joe O’riordan: His fate was sealed when he was born with a disorder that would not allow him to live. He would have died over a year ago only for the establishment you say killed him fought to save his life. The case took a sinister turn when he was hijacked by the wrong people giving false hope to desperate parents when there was no hope there. Rip Alfie

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:43 AM

    @Rory Toner: Why did his parents god create him to suffer such a terrible life? He must be a monster.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:52 AM

    @Rory Toner: Doctors decided the best course of treatment, an independent judiciary backed them up. Furthermore, if he were not treated in the ‘socialist’ NHS, he would be dead already and his unfortunate parents facing treatment bills running into the millions. In a very real sense, the NHS, and the doctors, nurses and support staff in it, are a small everyday miracle, providing care free at the point of service.

    The hijacking of those poor parents’ grief, the thwarting of the ultimate welfare of that child and the distress caused to the staff of Alder Hey and the other children and parents in it was truly disgusting. Anyone who would manipulate a distressed couple to further their own agenda is beneath contempt. That head-the-ball Stroilov was apparently agitating for the doctors to be prosecuted for murder; I’d be looking into having him prosecuted for incitement to violence if it would make a martyr out of the little creep.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:53 AM

    Correction: Wouldn’t make a martyr…

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:33 AM

    Your battle is over little man..rest in peace x

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:22 AM

    RIP young warrior, heartfelt sympathy to his family

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:46 AM

    Rest in peace little man so sorry to hear the news feel heart broken for his parents as a father I admire his parents for the fight they put up against the UK legal system , why I ask myself would the UK system let a child die when Italy were willing to step in and try there best to save the child , it’s so so sad the final outcome .

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:56 AM

    @Ciarán Byrne: I suggest you read up on the case before commenting as you clearly don’t know anything about it

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:52 AM

    @niamh ryan: i would say that most of the morons reposting the rubbish on Facebook about doctors being murderers or it’s a coverup or it was a related to vaccine poison can barely write their name let alone read a proper article on this. This child died over a year ago, his brain had liquified and only his brain stem remained. 3 x MRI scans mandated by the judge showed this and even the Italian doctors agreed with the original hospitals diagnosis and they were only offering palliative care not a cure for Alfie. I put it this way , if it was you in a coma for the past 18 months and your brain was mush would you want your family to keep you alive? And if there was the slightest chance that a fraction of your mind was still there what torture would you be in after 18 months of being trapped?

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:53 AM

    @Ciarán Byrne: because, sadly, there was no way to ‘save’ the child.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:53 AM

    @Jay Coleman: even Alfie’s dad admitted in court on Thursday that his rights as a parent override Alfie’s rights. Selfish knob

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:53 AM

    @Jay Coleman: or a desperate dad trying to cling onto his child..

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    Apr 28th 2018, 1:11 PM

    @Jay Coleman: ah but the Facebook/ twitter mob ruled that the hospital was murdering a baby that could be saved! An absolutely heartbreaking situation for the parents and I can’t blame them for fighting tooth and nail as I think anyone would in their position. But your children are not your property to do with as you see fit. The needs of the child superseded yours as their parent. And the actions of the hospital were in the best interests of the child

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    Apr 28th 2018, 2:45 PM

    @Ciarán Byrne: you should probably read the facts about the case before jumping on the bandwagon..”Three experts from the Bambino Gesù hospital visited Alfie in Liverpool at the request of the parents, but they agreed with the doctors that further treatment would be “futile” in finding a cure”. they go on to say” they were willing to take the child to Rome to undergo operations to help him breathe and receive food, which would keep him alive for an “undefined period”. As painful as this was (And I cannot imagine) the child was never going to recover, the courts put the rights of the child first and did what was right for the child, the parents, and understandably so, could not make that decision. Wish people would bloody read up on the facts..

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    Apr 28th 2018, 5:38 PM

    @Jay Coleman: Alfie was fine for the first 2 months. He was born in August, he was admitted into hospital in October after suffering seizures.

    British vaccinations and immunisation schedule programme:
    https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/childhood-vaccines-timeline/

    Vaccaines are administered at birth, 8 weeks and on through life even in adulthood.

    And yes Jay, many of us csn read and write our own names.
    Ever considered changing your name from jay Coleman to mr arrogant?

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    Apr 29th 2018, 8:56 AM

    @Puking Tiger: Your just being absolutely stupid. Maybe you can’t help it.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:50 AM

    Gobsmacked & heartbroken for your family. R.I.P. Little Alfie.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:02 AM

    It’s so sad

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:33 AM

    So so sad. A beautiful little child. Rest in peace Alfie

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:09 AM

    Rip little man god love that family very very sad.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:18 AM

    You went straight to heaven little angel so heartbreaking and sad thinking of the family ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:24 AM

    All the pro-choice men trying their level best to say a brain dead human is not a life yet this lovely child reminds all these brave men here that the life of a son or daughter is the most valuable component of a family, community or society. It doesn’t matter if that son or daughter is in the womb at 7 weeks as there is nothing wrong with valuing the medical language along with normal language.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:24 AM

    @Gerald Kelleher: you promised to go away.

    Having only a brain stem left, meant that the baby was effectively brainless. It would be a travesty to retain such a child on life support

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    Mute Stephen Coveney
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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:27 AM

    @Gerald Kelleher: usual stuff from your ger. You made your own little argument so you could answer it.
    Copernicus was a fraud

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:36 AM

    @Michael Lang: Even in death, that little fella’s life means more than a mediocre older man or all the other sadists/anarchists who act and think like walking corpses.

    Life is brilliant and so is a parent’s love – that is what I got from the life of little Alfie .

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:48 AM

    So heartbreaking

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:59 AM

    Our sympathies need to be for his parents who just wanted the best for their son.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:09 AM

    R.I.P little man.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:55 AM

    RIP little angel

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    Apr 28th 2018, 12:08 PM

    His parents should be very proud of him and themselves for putting up such a brave fight for life, life is so sacred and precious, nowadays most people don’t respect the dignity of human life. Alfie in now in the arms of God and his parents have someone in heaven who will fight for them until they will meet again and they surely will.
    Rest in peace Alfie, you touched many peoples hearts.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:24 AM

    Rip little dude!

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    Apr 28th 2018, 8:35 AM

    RIp little man, very sad

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    Apr 28th 2018, 9:40 AM

    RIP little one. So so sad.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 11:38 AM

    Absolutely heartbreaking. RIP Alfie.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:13 AM

    Poor little pet, his parents must be so distraught. Hopefully his passing was peaceful.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 10:53 AM

    RIP Alfie’s death wont change anything, Charlie Gadd before him and there will be another and another and another child after him, with parents going through the same court battles.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 2:19 PM

    Gone but not forgotten…..RIP

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    Apr 28th 2018, 12:14 PM

    R.i.p

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    Apr 28th 2018, 11:54 AM

    RIP brave little man

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    Apr 28th 2018, 12:17 PM

    So sad R.I.P little man.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 5:05 PM

    Rest in peace little Alfie. Prayers and thoughts for Alfie’s family and friends.

    Bottom line…society did everything in its power to kill this child and did sweet feck all to help him.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 1:09 PM

    Comments open on this and closed on a tee shirt hanging in a Liverpool dressing room. Some laugh

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    Apr 28th 2018, 11:02 AM

    RIP little man,the world has become a horrible place.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 4:55 PM

    So sad RIP little tiger. We are heading into a world when you are not “fit” you are a burden and you will be terminated.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 5:08 PM

    @Austin Rock: My thoughts exactly Austin.
    I think they’re on a mission to exterminate sick kids, kids with disabilities, poor people’s kids.

    Only the rich and wealthy will be allowed to breed in the future.

    Repeal the 8th anyone?

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    Apr 28th 2018, 5:41 PM

    @Austin Rock: You never fail with your warped sanctimonious bull. So you would prefer a world where people are kept alive to suffer at the whim of some over emotional wimp who cannot face the facts.

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    Apr 28th 2018, 7:19 PM

    R.I.P Alfie your fight is over fly high with the angels little man ♥♥♥ & guide your Mam & Dad @ this very hard time .

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    Apr 28th 2018, 6:20 PM

    Abortion…..now the lefties want to introduce euthanasia into Ireland. These liberals are obsessed with death.

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