The British High Court ruled last month that the hospital should suspend life-sustaining treatment, deeming it “futile.” His family sealed the decision to the Supreme Court, and even asked the UN for support, but their appeals were rejected.
The family had asked for Battersbee to be transferred to hospice, but the High Court ruled he was too medically unstable.
“Such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end and I'm so proud to be his mum,” Dance said from outside the Royal London Hospital in east London.
Hollie Dance, mother of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee, speaks to the media outside the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel, east London.
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