A builder who was left in a vegetative state after a heart attack can be allowed to die despite it going against his family's wishes, a judge has ruled.
Doctors at the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in Wakefield told the Court of Protection he had severe brain damage and life support should end.His wife and children said they hoped his condition would improve and said, as a Muslim, he would want God to decide when he died. Doctors treating the man, who cannot be identified, told a hearing he had suffered severe brain damage when his brain was starved of oxygen for at least 18 minutes.Mrs Justice Arbuthnot, sitting in London, said evidence showed the man was in a "permanent vegetative state" and would always need 24-hour care in a specialist facility.
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