{"id":19535,"date":"2023-11-20T14:41:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T19:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=19535"},"modified":"2023-12-07T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T16:24:23","slug":"it-felt-like-i-had-been-dragged-to-hell-baby-indi-gregory-dies-after-national-health-care-services-refuses-to-continue-her-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2023\/11\/it-felt-like-i-had-been-dragged-to-hell-baby-indi-gregory-dies-after-national-health-care-services-refuses-to-continue-her-care","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt felt like I had been dragged to Hell.\u201d Baby Indi Gregory Dies After National Health Care Services Refuses to Continue Her Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19541\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19541\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/11\/baby-indi-gregory_credit-Adobe-Stock-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19541\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2023\/11\/baby-indi-gregory_credit-Adobe-Stock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adobe Stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Eight-month-old baby Indi Gregory, whose family has been embroiled in a bitter legal battle to keep her alive, has died after the UK\u2019s National Health Services (NHS) refused to continue her care and withdrew Indi\u2019s life support. Indi was born on February 24th and diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, a critical illness with a poor prognosis. Indy was receiving life support treatments to keep her alive when a UK court ruled there was nothing more to be done for her and that she should be \u201callowed to die.\u201d Indi\u2019s parents, Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth, disagreed and were represented by the group Christian Counsel. Indi\u2019s father argued that Indi deserved to have continued care as she was still conscious and experiencing life. \u201cLook, if we thought Indi was brain-dead, we would be utterly crushed, but we wouldn&#8217;t be disagreeing with the doctors,\u201d he\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/nov\/12\/indi-gregory-critically-ill-baby-girl-removed-from-life-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">said<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. \u201cBut our daughter responds to us, and on her good days, she is babbling, making noises, moving all her limbs. She can definitely experience happiness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The courts, however, did not agree and ruled that Indi could be removed from her life support. In a last-ditch effort, Indi\u2019s family was able to gain Italian citizenship for their daughter. The country\u2019s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, directly granted the citizenship and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/uk-infant-baptized-forced-life-support-father-devil-courtroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0on her Facebook in support of the family. \u201cThey say there isn\u2019t much hope for little Indi, but until the very end, I\u2019ll do what I can to defend her life and to defend the right of her mamma and papa to do all that they can for her.\u201d Leadership at the Vatican\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/terminally-ill-uk-baby-gets-more-time-live-parents-fight-judge-bring-vatican-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">had arranged<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0for Indi to receive further treatments at Bambino Ges\u00f9 in Rome. However, despite those efforts, three judges, Lord Justice Peter Jackson, Lady Justice Eleanor King, and Lord Justice Andrew Moylan, denied the appeal and ruled the intervention of Italy was \u201cwholly misconceived.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Not only did the courts rule not allow Indi to be moved to Italy, but the judges ruled that Indi\u2019s life support must be removed at the hospital or in a hospice and not at home. Little Indi\u2019s life support was removed on Sunday.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ProVitaFamiglia\/status\/1723415729431805997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reports<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0show that she was able to breathe after being extubated with the help of an oxygen mask, but there were orders not to resuscitate her. Police were reported outside the hospice she was taken to, where she stopped breathing in the middle of the night\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacopocoghe\/status\/1723746194638143688\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">but recovered<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0on her own. She died early on Monday. \u201cIndi\u2019s life ended at 01.45 am. Claire and I are angry, heartbroken, and ashamed. The NHS and the Courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi\u2019s dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged,\u201d her father, Dean, announced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Speaking of the experience, Gregory stated he felt like he had \u201cbeen to Hell.\u201d Although admitting to not being religious, he said the experience had taught him that if Hell is real, God is real too. \u201cI thought, if hell exists, then heaven must exist. It was like the devil was there. I thought if there\u2019s a devil, then God must exist,\u201d he said. The family had Indi baptized before her death in tradition with the Catholic church\u2019s teachings on baptism. In a <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/en\/church\/news\/2023-11\/uk-bishops-deeply-saddened-by-death-of-indi-gregory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">statement<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0released after Indi\u2019s death, the Bishops of Wales and England expressed their condolences and stated that the case \u201cshows again the need for greater weight to be given to the parental voice in these complex and sensitive cases.\u201d The Bishops pushed for revisiting an amendment to the Health and Care Act 2022 proposed by Baroness Ilora Finlay on \u201cDispute resolution in children\u2019s palliative care.\u201d The amendment had been proposed during another &#8211; case involving\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/07\/28\/health\/charlie-gard-death\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Charlie Gard<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0in 2017. Charlie suffered from the same degenerative disease as Indi, and the NHS had determined to remove his care. A hospital in Texas offered to treat Charlie with experimental treatments, but the UK courts fought against the move. As litigation continued, Charlie\u2019s condition deteriorated to a point beyond intervention for the Texas hospital. Also, like Indi, Charlie\u2019s parents were not allowed to bring him home so he could pass peacefully there. Indi\u2019s father, however, offered some small hope. \u201cThey did succeed in taking Indi\u2019s body and dignity, but they can never take her soul,\u201d he said. \u201cThey tried to get rid of Indi without anybody knowing, but we made sure she would be remembered forever.\u201d Please be in prayer for Indi\u2019s family during this difficult time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indi&#8217;s funeral was held at St. Barnabus Catholic Cathedral in Nottingham, England, where over 100 people came to offer their condolences to Indi&#8217;s family. Her casket, decorated with flowers, was carried through the streets of Nottingham by a horse-drawn carriage. Her family members followed close behind in eight Rolls-Royce cars. Italian officials who attended included Minister of Families Eugenia Roccella and Minister of Disabilities Alessandra Locatelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-month-old baby Indi Gregory, whose family has been embroiled in a bitter legal battle to keep her alive, has died after the UK\u2019s National Health Services (NHS) refused to continue her care and withdrew Indi\u2019s life support. Indi was born on February 24th and diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, a critical illness with a poor prognosis.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":19541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cIt felt like I had been dragged to Hell.\u201d Baby Indi Gregory Dies After National Health Care Services Refuses to Continue Her Care<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Baby Indi Gregory, whose family has been embroiled in a bitter legal battle to keep her alive, has passed away.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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