I'll tell you how I can disagree with TCPete.  Read this again:  "At a news conference July 25 in Rome, Mariella Enoc, president of the Vatican children's hospital, Bambino Gesu, said the hospital had partnered U.S. neurologist, Dr. Michio Hirano, to study Charlie's case. In July, the hospital agreed with Hirano that the child's illness had proceeded too far for treatment, which might or might not have worked six months earlier.  

Operative statement: "which may or may not have worked six months earlier."  Charlie was in great pain and because of muscle deterioration could not breathe on his own.  The courts made the right decision.  His parents may have had 1.7 million dollars for his experimental treatment, but the court had enough sense to essentially say, 'you can't buy a life for your child'.