Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Brave 13-year-old girl wins the right to die. So much courage in one so young...

At 13 and with a terminal heart condition, Hannah Jones has had enough of hospitals.

So when doctors suggested she might need a heart transplant, she took a deep breath and just said No.

Hannah explained that she would rather spend any time she had left at home with her family.

Her local hospital, however, decided she was wrong, and took the first steps to High Court proceedings to force her to have the operation.

It took a determined plea from Hannah at home in her bed to persuade the hospital to back down.

Yesterday, her parents Andrew and Kirsty, an intensive care nurse, said they were disgusted by the initial decision to pursue the case. More...

See also:

  1. Somalia: 13-year-old girl raped by three men; they go free, but the victim is stoned to death. WTF!
  2. India: the strange case of the girl who bleeds for no reason...
  3. China: man cuts off 12-year-old son's penis.
  4. Young girls ... and strange allergies

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