A patient branded “delusional” by doctors after she rejected their plan to end her life on a death pathway has been exonerated by a court almost a year after she died.
Sudiksha Thirumalesh, a 19-year-old student, instructed her lawyers to get her out of the UK when doctors gave up hope that she would recover sufficiently to be moved from the ventilator that kept her alive.
She died last September shortly after the Court of Protection sided with doctors at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust who wanted to put her on palliative care even though she told a treating psychiatrist: “I want to die trying to live … we have to try everything.”
