Toughest Decision A Parent Can Ever Make

You really do have to feel for the parent's of 12 year old Archie Battersbee who is in a coma with severe brain damage after an online challenge went horrifically wrong and have been going through the court's to stop Doctors from turning off the life support machine which is keeping him alive.
According to what the experts called 'compelling and unanimous medical evidence', Archie's brain has suffered a significant injury to multiple areas and he will not regain awareness at any time and to continue on life support was futile and not in his best interests but Archie's parents have appealed the decision saying he has twice tried to breathe for himself.
Today the appeal court have agreed with the medical experts and calling it 'a tragedy of immeasurable dimensions', agreed that Doctors can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment.
Nobody who hasn't been through it can only guess at what the Parents are feeling, they must be inconsolable with grief and i understand how they would grasp at any sign that their son will eventually pull through even if the weight of medical evidence is against it happening.
I can't think of anything more devastating than turning off the machine which is keeping your child alive, you would forever be thinking what would have happened if you had waited one more day, week or month and Archie's parents are now applying to the European court of human rights to keep the machine turned on and while a small part of me thinks it is a sadly fruitless venture, the largest part of me thinks to keep fighting because while the machine is beeping, there is always hope but once the machine goes quiet, all hope is gone.