SIR – I would like to rectify a statement regarding my brother, David Forsyth, who, while driving through a green light, was hit by a paramedic, thus rendering him paralysed from the neck down.
He died a few days later in Pinderfields Hospital last August.
Your report stated – I am sure a misunderstanding – that my brother, once asking for his life support machine to be switched off, changed his mind when it was too late.
This is incorrect, to my recollection. He, after speaking with the doctor and finding he would not recover, and not wanting to spend what time was left to him in that way, asked for the life support machine to be switched off and NEVER changed his mind at any time. He faced death with courage.
I feel so strongly about this and had to write to put the record straight as the final act I could do for my brother and to clear up this misunderstanding.
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