Update: Canadian Hospital Agrees to Let Baby Joseph Die at Home

The Canadian hospital under fire for ordering parents to remove their young son from life support because he is reportedly * in a vegetative state has backed down and agreed to one of the family's requests: to let the boy die at home.

London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario, issued a statement Monday afternoon saying that it will bring 13-month-old Joseph Maraachli to his family's home, but it then insists that staff members remove the boy from a respirator, possibly giving him only minutes more to live, the London Free Press reported.

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* Update: Since posting this news article, we have learned that Baby Joseph is not in a vegetative state at all. See the video posted here.