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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Brian Farmer

Wife of brain-damaged pastor loses life-support treatment fight

The wife of an evangelical pastor left with “very significant” brain damage after suffering a stroke while undergoing kidney dialysis 18 months ago has lost a life-support treatment fight.

A judge has ruled that medics can lawfully stop providing life-support treatment to the man, who is in his early 50s and in a coma, after a trial in a specialist court.

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