A year after his forced goodbye to Alta,Avrohom Fixsler is determined to turn her tragic legacy into something positive
Two weeks ago, Avrohom Fixsler had a nightmare — one that accompanies his every waking hour.
As he slept on Shabbos, his mind took him back in time a year, to stand with his wife by their daughter Alta’s bedside in a Manchester hospital.
The two-year-old had spent much of her short life at the center of an international storm. British medical authorities said that the brain-damaged girl faced a lifetime of pain and were determined to end Alta’s life in the name of compassion. Her parents — newcomers to the country — contended that their daughter was in no pain, and fought the decision through Britain’s legal system and in the court of horrified public opinion.
As they stood around her bedside that Monday, October 18, 12 Cheshvan 2021, Alta was exactly as she’d always been — breathing with the help of a respirator, unaware of the world around her, the center of her loving parents’ lives.
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