Girl denied insulin by parents

[paultrose]

Elizabeths Struhs: Religious sect parents jailed over death of diabetic daughter

Elizabeth Struhs was denied insulin by her parents, who believed God would heal her.

www.bbc.co.uk

Any one else read this?

8 year old girl....type 1....dies after being denied insulin by religeous parents

 

[Inka]

Shocking - her last days must have been awful, poor girl.

 

[Satan’s little helper]

Sadly, I’ve read quite a few stories like this over the years. I had an RE teacher believe in “the healing power of prayer” when I was at school. (12YO.) He convinced a class mate the class praying was indeed working on a birth defect eye issue he had? I kept my diabetes to myself.

 

[Dishevelled]

poor girl.

A child in my eldest's class at primary had parents who rejected all forms of technology so they had nothing electrical at home, not even a land-line phone. It's not on the same scale as that poor girl and her insulin but very limiting and isolating nonetheless.

 

[gail2]

im all for religious freedom but not when it costss a life of this poor girls Her parents will have to live with it for the rest of their lives and they will not have an easy time of it in jail
gil

 

[nonethewiser]

Those sentences should have been much longer, double in fact poor little girl.

Knew a lady on our street when a boy who refused blood then consequently died during a operation, only in her 30s who left behind husband & 3 small children.

Some, not all religions brainwash people to believe that a greater being is watching over them & will protect them come what may.

 

[Thebearcametoo]

Just awful. I’m glad everyone involved has been found guilty. I can’t imagine how brainwashed you have to be to watch your child die a slow and horrific death and not get any help

 

[silver minion]

Words fail me...... the blinkered wilful ignorance of a treatable condition that caused the suffering and death of a child.

 

[Amity Island]

Shocking - her last days must have been awful, poor girl.

It is and an isolated dreadful case.

On the other hand, people have been suffering every day and dying as a result of not being able to afford the catastrophic costs of insulin. I'm not sure which is a worse example of human behaviour? to think that when insulin was invented, the patent was sold for just $1 for the good of all.

"On 23 January 1923, Banting, Collip and Best were awarded U.S. patents on insulin and the method used to make it. They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Banting famously said, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.” He wanted everyone who needed it to have access to it."

100 years of insulin

Who discovered insulin?

www.diabetes.org.uk

Why is insulin still so expensive for diabetes patients in the U.S.?

More than 1 in 10 patients who use insulin report spending a significant part of their incomes on the drug.

www.nbcnews.com