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Alfie Evans 7

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StayingAtTamaras · 26/04/2018 23:25

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dontbesillyhenry · 28/04/2018 09:08

Heartbreaking rip Alfie

user1471450935 · 28/04/2018 09:09

Sorry on phone.
Cake ang Brew and hugs to the amazing people who shared their stories in such dignified ways.
Finally we where given the poem
Death is nothing at all by Henry Scott Holland, the first verse is so lovely, I try and remember at times like this.
So sorry for their loss. Plus any bad memories that return for others. You are in my thoughts.

YellowPinkie · 28/04/2018 09:22

I'm glad he's now at peace and I hope his parents know there wasn't anything else they could do for him or at least understand that at some point in the future.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 28/04/2018 09:34

So sad. Hopefully the parents can eventually find some peace and get the support from the right people.
RIP

Puzzledandpissedoff · 28/04/2018 10:03

A terrible sadness for the family of course, but thank God Alfie's free at last

Massive respect to all those at Alder Hey who've been through so much and worked so very hard

SteveMcGarrettsBudgieSmugglers · 28/04/2018 10:07

RIP Alfie I hope your parents can find some peace and have a lot of support around them

MrsOH2004 · 28/04/2018 10:09

Sleep tight Alfie, thoughts are with his parents, I do think TE knew it wouldn't be long after his statement on Thursday Sad

HowDoIGetOffTheBus · 28/04/2018 10:12

Rest In peace little man, you have touched the lives of many.

MarvelleGazelle · 28/04/2018 10:17

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viques · 28/04/2018 10:20

So sad. I just wish his poor parents had not been so badly advised and had had more time to spend with him rather than lawyers.

And without meaning to sound mean I hope they keep the funeral for close family and real friends only and don't turn it into an AA circus.

Smokeahontas · 28/04/2018 10:40

I hope the little boy is at peace now, and his parents are allowed to deal with their grief in private.

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 28/04/2018 10:44

Just seen the sad news.

I just wanted to say to everyone on here who has been through anything similar, you have all my love, support and sympathy. Thank you to those who have shared their stories. They won't be forgotten.

x2boys · 28/04/2018 10:48

Rip Alfie I'm so sorry for his parents but im Glad he's at peace .

numptynuts · 28/04/2018 10:55

Rest now little man ❤️ thoughts with the family.

derxa · 28/04/2018 10:58
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BoreOfWhabylon · 28/04/2018 11:02

If love could have saved him he would have lived forever

RIP Alfie.

Forever young.

broccolina · 28/04/2018 11:23

Poor little Alfie is finally at peace - and hopefully parents got some to say goodbye quietly.
It's such a shame that this case attracted opportunists who used it for their own political ends and who gave wrong counsel. At the end they only damaged the family with their noise, by not allowing them to come to terms with the situation and spend their last days in peace.
I wish I could say I emphatise with the father but the truth is, I am mostly sorry for the little Alfie, unaware what was going on around him, how his photos were plastered everywhere for vultures to gain from his suffering. A boy who spent 17 months of his short life in hospital :( And I am hoping that at least his condition meant he was pain free towards the end.
People - and yes, children are little people, with their own rights - should be able to end their life with dignity, privacy and love of those close to them. This wasn't the case here.
Shame on everyone who made this into a circus - not even AA so much but CLC, the Pope, conservative politicians around the world, NRA and prolife activists... in the face of rational and truly compassionate ruling of the court.
If any good campaign should come out of this it would be for improving palliative care which would enable the family to spend time during EOL care living in a private apartments if a person cannot be taken home.
Rest in peace, Alfie.

outoftheway · 28/04/2018 11:39

Jesus Christ there are idiots trying to spread fake news and going live and asking for people to go to the hospital - saying the police are doing all forms of shit. None of which is true. Disgusting pieces of shit. It's a page called Carers Want Competence

GorgeousJaws · 28/04/2018 11:41

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x2boys · 28/04/2018 11:50

I hope it isn't true GorgeousJaws , this needs to end all the facebook crap and media isnt helping anyone there are still some people calling the hospital murderers but can be bothered to read the facts of the case .

gluteustothemaximus · 28/04/2018 11:50

RIP Alfie Flowers

Shame on the vultures that came.

Shame on Nigel Farage for using a dying child for his own agenda.
Shame on the Americans who used a dying child for their own agenda.
Shame on the student lawyer who used a dying child for his own agenda.
Shame on the Italian hospital and the Pope, using a dying child for their own agenda.

I am disgusted that people would stoop so low as to give hope to two desperate parents, where there was no hope.

You're free now Alfie. Sorry your life was so short. I hope the media give the parents the space they need to grieve, and I hope that there are no repercussions from the army.

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SomeoneAteMyStrudel · 28/04/2018 11:53

I just saw that. People posting that 'Tom is on order to keep quiet' and that the hospital are trying to stop the family getting into the room with Alfie 'so the hospital can remove evidence of what they did to him'.

Even people on the AA page are telling folk to stop posting this stuff, that it is fake news and they should stop it.

It feels like a real manifestation of the culture we live in now where nothing bad happens unless it's someone's fault, if someone dies it is because someone else didn't do enough. We just can't accept nature or the randomness of life any more. Like the people posting this stuff just can't accept that there was no miracle, and because of that they are super angry as it's blown their world view out of the water that it's just 'the man' who is the root of all evil. When actually sometimes just shit things happen to good people and there's nothing anyone can 'do' about it.

And in the middle of it all is a young grieving family. They don't deserve this.

BakedBeans47 · 28/04/2018 11:53

Agree broccolina and gluteus

RIP Alfie. I’m so sorry this had to happen to you x life is cruel sometimes.

GnotherGnu · 28/04/2018 11:55

The AA page doesn't mention any of these calls for people to come to the hospital and are insistent that followers should only act on what is on that page. They seem to be acting much more responsibly than the idiots on the Carers Want Competence page.

fenneltea · 28/04/2018 11:56

Broccolina Your post echoes my sentiments exactly, it leaves me with a heavy heart what this turned into, and like the rippes in a pond when a pebble is thrown in it has spread and left grieving parents feeling that they did the wrong thing and it has caused so much damage in so many ways.