A brain-damaged 12-year-old British boy at the center of a legal battle over whether to continue life support died on Saturday after hospital treatment ended, his family said. Archie Battersbee’s parents unsuccessfully appealed to Britain’s highest courts and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the end of maintenance. They also failed to get the courts to allow them to transfer Archie to a hospice to die. Doctors treating Archie at a London hospital said continuing to provide life support would not be in his best interests and that taking the boy to hospital could have worsened his condition. The boy had been unconscious since he was injured at the family’s home in Essex, east London, in April. “I’m the proudest mum in the world, such a beautiful little boy, and he fought until the end,” Archie’s mother, Holly Dance, told reporters outside the hospital. This content appears as provided to The Globe by the original wire service. It has not been edited by Globe staff.
