Meanwhile the UK buries its head in the sand.

The thing that beats me is the use of medical advances to prolong the agony.

There's many people alive today that should be dead, long since dead.

This may sound callous, however to see it may change some people's minds. I was in a daycare centre for disabled children in Glasgow. Now, this wasn't a daycare centre as you and I may imagine it - it was a high tech medical facility where these young individuals spent their days wired up and connected to oxygen bottles. Not a moments laughter or joy in the whole building.

These children are all brain damaged well beyond the point of hope. This is hell, in my view. And at the end of the day these kids are transported him by ambulance, to be wired up again in their own homes. One of my cousins, a social worker, could not believe here eyes when she discovered how many people were living like this in the community.

They should be dead. Nature wanted them dead - man played the part of God and kept them alive. Man is not God.

I don't condone some type of Hitlerite cleansing. I regret how many Down's kids are aborted, for example. Why? because when I was young Down's kids were a part of daily life. Many of them beautiful, loving and great fun. They had a quality of life, they had friends, they were part of our lives.

One of my friends has a mentally challenged adult son. He's a sweetheart, hilarious, gentle, a breath of fresh air. And he knows what he likes, he knows what he is interested in, and he could teach you or I many things. I look at him and regret that he was born this way, but don't regret his life - far from it.

The difference is from he and the others mentioned. He has some degree of function and independence. He doesn't need his mother to wake every two hours to check his breathing equipment, or for his father to lie at night waiting for an alarm.

This is medical Frankensteinism, this is man getting too smart for himself and causing layer upon layer of suffering and emotional trauma. This is man putting families into an impossible position. This is man inflicting emotional trauma upon untold amounts of people.

We have to show compassion, and part of compassion sometimes is to accept that death is the better road.

I regret that the child in the OP won't live a full and enjoyable life. I salute the Belgians and his family for having the moral courage to understand that we are not Frankenstein's creations - we are not torturers, we are not gifted with all the answers.

RIP when it comes, wee yin.