The author is Lars Doucet, whose 7 year old son is in a permanent vegetative state. He wrote about that in another blog post which was on HN yesterday:
I really wonder how he makes time for his girls, and I hope that his decision to prolong his son's life and take time away from them doesn't have an adverse effect, especially on the younger one.
Can't imagine what it's like to lose your brother and your normal family structure at the same time.
This comes across as quite tone deaf to me, weakly insinuating neglectfulness because the father does not just kill his son.
(I'm not judging your view and want to be clear that english is not my first language, but I think one has to be very careful with words in situations like this, especially considering that the author visits this forum)
It is absolutely not. My son has the same name as his. All I could think about after the article about his son yesterday (the day before?) was how hard the situation would be on my daughter.
The author is Lars Doucet, whose 7 year old son is in a permanent vegetative state. He wrote about that in another blog post which was on HN yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036842