The disgraceful circus that surrounded the last months of Charlie Gard's life is now over. We can only be thankful.
This poor, sick child never had any chance of survival and the public battle between his parents and the Great Ormond Street Hospital, where Charlie spent most of his short life, was one of the most unedifying events of the last few years. One can only wonder about the motives of his parents and those who paid their legal costs.
No parent expects their children to predecease them and seeing a child fall ill and die is heart breaking, but there also has to be a degree of sense and understanding when such events occur. A point comes at which there has to be acceptance of the inevitable in the best interests of the child; while Charlie's parents did finally accept that he was going to die, even then they still carried on an argument about where that would happen. It almost seemed that the legal fight was more important than anything else, including their child's suffering. They continually stressed what they wanted rather than concentrating on what was best for their son and, in that, they were horribly selfish and wrong.
Now that Charlie has died, one might expect that we will hear no more. Sadly, I suspect that there will now be syndication of 'his story' and 'his parents' story'; will there also be the book, the film, the stage play ? I doubt that we've heard the last of poor little Charlie Gard.
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