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Letter #19, 2018: 10 Reflections on the Alfie case....[2018-04-24][Engleză]Tuesday, April 24, 2018, #2Breaking, 6:45 p.m., London time: Alfie is still breathing, and a helicopter is now waiting outside the Liverpool hospital where he is staying. The helicopter is ready to carry him to a British military airport, where a plane will carry him to Rome. But the British legal authorities have not yet decided whether to allow him to leave the hospital. (link) (Below, Tom Evans with his son Alfie earlier today) ========================= Ten Reflections on the Alfie Case 1. The courage of little Alfie. Little Alfie Evans is still breathing on his own as of this writing, more than 20 hours after being removed from a breathing tube last night at 9:17 p.m., London time. Whatever else now happens, Alfie has already made a statement with an exclamation point which must never be forgotten. And that statement is: "I, little Alfie, am a fighter... to the end." 2. The undeniable error of the doctors. By continuing to breathe, when he was expected to die within minutes after being taken off of his respiration machinery, Alfie has proven a point: that his doctors were, at least in this, wrong. They underestimated his strength and will to live. This will remain true even if Alfie succumbs and dies in the coming hours. 3. The lack of credibility of the overall diagnosis. By insisting on their diagnosis, and then testing it by removing the respiration equipment against the parents' wishes and even pleas for the parents' too believed Alfie would die in minutes when taken off the respiration machinery the doctors have undermined their credibility also in regard to their general diagnosis of Alfie's condition. 4. The unacceptable "dehumanization" of Alfie. It has been written and repeated a thousand times that Alfie is in a "vegetative" state. That "70% of his brain" has been "destroyed." That Alfie is, in a profound way, no longer a human being, but only, now, a "vegetable." Lacking the characteristic mental functions of a human being. Therefore, a "sub-human," a being who has (tragically, perhaps, it may be admitted) "fallen beneath the threshold" of being "human" because of his illness. This is said to be the sad but undeniable "truth" about his case. And because this is the sad but undeniable truth, all those who do not accept the conclusion that Alfie has already ceased to be human, and so to allow, or assist, his physical death is not in any way immoral, but only the logical (if sad) conclusion any "reasonable" person should draw are "unreasonable," with the implication that they are "fanatics." And the repetition of this affirmation, that Alfie is in an irreversible vegetative state, has led many to be persuaded that his parents, Tom Evans, 21, and Kate James, 20, moved by the understandable but ultimately unreasonable and excessive love of any parent for their child, and his small "army" of defenders, are in some fundamental way, in the final analysis "unreasonable" people. Unable to "accept reality." Unable to accept a medical "fact" that, in its most crude form, is expressed in this way: "Alfie is a vegetable, not a human being." And more, can never be anything other than a vegetable can never return to being a "human being." This is the total "dehumanization" of Alfie that has been accomplished. And this is one of the most horrifying aspects of this case. Because.... 5. Alfie is not a vegetable! He is a very sick little boy... but not a vegetable... not a carrot, or a pea-pod, or a zucchini or yellow squash... He is a human boy, he has a name, and he therefore has the inalienable dignity and rights of every human being... 6. And he opens his eyes! The impression given by much of the coverage of this story is that Alfie is lying in a coma, silent, unmoving, on the very edge of death, and has been lying in a coma for a year and a half... and that his loving parents are really unrealistic when they continue to seek ways to care for him, and possibly even to bring him back into a state of consciousness. But this impression is not accurate! There is a video taken by his parents just a few hours ago after the breathing apparatus was removed which shows Alfie... opening his eyes! And looking into the eyes of his father, who is calling his name! Is there a flicker of recognition in Alfie's eyes, when he sees his father? You be the judge... Here is a link to that video (link). And there is a second video from April 20, just four days ago, showing Tom Evans talking to his son just after his flight to Rome to see Pope Francis, and showing little Alfie opening his eyes and staring, evidently with a kind of recognition (I would argue, after watching the video several times) into his father's eyes. Here is that video (link). 7. Vaccinations, medications for epileptic seizures, and antibiotics. In reporting on this story, there has been relatively little coverage of three "facts": that Alfie received (a) "many" vaccinations and then (b) "many" medications for "epileptic seizures" and finally (c) "many" courses of antibiotics for infections. Sursa: www.InsideTheVatican.com Contor Accesări: 723, Ultimul acces: 2026-08-04 08:24:16
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