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Archie has been in a coma since April
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Archie Battersbee, 12, has been taken off life support in the UK.
On Saturday at 12.15 p.m. (local time), the life-support equipment was switched off, his mother Hollie Dance said, according to the PA news agency, outside the London hospital where Archie has been for the past few months.
The parents had resisted turning off the machines for weeks.
Archie has been in a coma since April.
He suffered serious brain injuries in an accident at home in Southend-on-Sea, possibly during an internet dare.
The treating doctors saw no chance of recovery.
A court classified the boy as brain dead.
What is in the patient's best interests is often decided by judges in the UK on the advice of medical professionals.
The wishes of parents and relatives are not always taken into account.
The parents had fought legally for the further treatment of their son, but lost in all instances.
UK Supreme Court supports doctors' decision to turn off Archie's life support machines
A final appeal by the parents to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg was also unsuccessful.
Most recently, the parents tried unsuccessfully to get Archie transferred from the hospital to a hospice.
In their »fight to the bitter end«, the family of the twelve-year-old was supported by the conservative organization Christian Concern, which provides legal assistance in selected cases.
She speaks out against the recognition of homosexuality and transgender.
In 2013 she tried to win special rights for religious people before the European Court of Human Rights.
The court rejected that.
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