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Nancy was born with meningitis, septicemia, and hydrocephalus. She was blind. With the help of mobility aids and a feeding tube, she lived well past her initial prognosis of death by age 4. According to her mother, her developmental age was equivalent to a six-month-old child’s. Nancy enjoyed music and hearing birds chirp and the sound of children playing.
Two years ago, however, Nancy became ill with a post-surgical infection that caused her immense pain. Ms. Fitzmaurice described her daughter’s condition to The Mirror as “screaming and writhing in agony.” Strong pain medications such as morphine and ketamine did not help. Even the doctors at the prestigious London children’s hospital Great Ormond Street supported Ms. Fitzmaurice’s petition to end her daughter’s pain—and her life.
The case set a precedent in the U.K. Before, patients had to be terminally ill and require life-support for breathing in order to be considered for euthanasia. Nancy Fitzmaurice met neither of these conditions.
Although Nancy died in August, news of her case only bubbled into the British tabloids last week, because, according to The Mirror, the parents came forward with the details in the hope that similar decisions could be made by parents and doctors, without requiring intervention from courts.
The case offers some interesting contrasts with one that was heavily covered by the U.S. press this past week: that of Brittany Maynard’s physician-assisted suicide. Maynard was 29 years old at the time of her death, able to request drugs from her physician after considered reflection. Nancy, on the other hand, was incapable of communicating her wishes. Even had she been a typically developing 12-year-old, she would arguably not have had the reflective capacities and life experience to decide whether her life was worth living despite great pain.
While Maynard made her own decisions, Nancy’s medical decision-making was in the hands of her mother. Maynard played an active part in her own death by taking prescribed lethal drugs, while Nancy’s caregivers passively withdrew nutrition and hydration, letting her die instead of actively killing her. Nancy relied on others to make her medical decisions for her. “In pediatrics, young children have never been competent to make medical decisions,” said Steven Joffe, associate professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, in an interview with The Daily Beast. “Unlike with previously competent adults, we can’t rely on the patient’s known values or former statements.”
The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) issued a press release condemning the decision to withdraw Nancy’s hydration and nutrition. “We’re concerned that press coverage did not include a disability-rights perspective,” Ari Ne’eman, president of ASAN, told The Daily Beast. “One of the most frustrating things about this issue is that people imagine that it’s between religious zealots on one hand and humanists on the other.” Some of the opposition to physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, and the withdrawal of life-saving treatment is not from right-wing or religious groups, but secular disability-rights activists on the left. “This issue is not right or left in the culture wars,” he said.
Maynard played an active part in her own death by taking prescribed lethal drugs, while Nancy’s caregivers passively withdrew nutrition and hydration, letting her die instead of actively killing her.
What Ne’eman worries most is that Nancy died not to relieve her pain, but because she was disabled. “The media coverage implies that those who need a feeding tube would be better off dead. Nancy’s killing puts into action longstanding statements that it would be better to be dead than disabled,” he said. “People have trouble imagining that people who require assistance with eating, breathing, getting dressed have lives worth living.”
The tabloid press coverage so far, which has been very sympathetic to Ms. Fitzmaurice, does seem to be blurring the line between whether hydration was withdrawn because Nancy was in
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