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When would you say to stop CPR then? 20 minutes? 20 days? 20 months?

No, he died of his condition, having been artificially kept alive for over a year

No one gave evidence advocating killing the child.

The judges are guided by the doctors. That's the whole point of having medical expert witnesses in court. I understand your judicial evidential methodology is similar if not the same.

Depends where you want to stop. At some point someone has to say enough is enough and carry the can for saying that.

Which is why they didn't have four court hearings to find out and fully adduce the evidence...oh wait, they did.

Except even their own medical experts disagreed with them on this point.

The difference is that Stephen Hawking had a fully functioning brain/ mind until pretty much the end, whereas Alfie had been for all intents and purposes the equivalent of anencephalic for more than the last year of his short life.

Agreed with you up until here Only IF it was in Alfie's best interests; he was their child, not their possession.

Letting nature take its course isn't murder: the hospital had kept him "not totally dead" artificially for over a year.

England and Wales form.one jurisdiction for the moment although that is likely to change with more Welsh devolution. In Scotland, the principle piece of legislation is here: Children (Scotland) Act 1995 In 'Norn Iron' it is here: The Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 Very similar legal...

Alfie couldn't swallow, so trying to get him to drink water would have hastened his end in an uncomfortable way by basically choking him to death. As I understand it, he was with his family when he died not medics

Frankie Boyle letter about BBC in full

Far less asinine (I think that's the word you meant) than God being the equivalent of Hitler, Milosevič and the Rwandan Interahamwe put together, which is the blasphemous result of your interpretation; no wonder you support the Israelis' racist ethnic cleansing policies.

I don't deny the plain truth of the text. Just not a literal interpretation; that dog simply won't hunt. Be wary of conflating the two.

He was with his father when he died

I think that creation is capable of drawing people to God by His Spirit but that that is not normative

I note you haven't answered the question which is significant in itself...

No, I worship God as consistently revealed

Plain <>literal. You do understand that?