Who wants to decide the price of life?

Jamie was born just over the cusp of viability, on the day he turned 26 weeks. He spent the first year of his life attached to a ventilator in a west London hospital, and when he was discharged he was still attached to the ventilator via a tracheotomy – a hole in his neck with a tube connected to his oxygen supply. Until the tracheotomy was removed 16 months later he had nursing care for 21 hours a day. He has mild cerebral palsy, which manifests itself in his running on his tiptoes – though he scoots and walks flatfooted. He has cost the NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds. He is priceless. Guardian