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When parents decide to turn off life support
Issue in spotlight after recent cases involving British children
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Janice Tai
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Her parents did not want to give up on her, even though the 16-year-old had an incurable neurodegenerative condition and had been hooked up to life-support machines at home for more than five years.
So when she had a bout of chest infections two years ago that led to her organs failing, they persisted in treating her, and she stayed for almost a month in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Singapore.
