We are watching a grieving father work through his loss.
A bit of history on his daughter, Bethany. At the beginning Children's Services took guardianship of her so that the hospital could administer blood transfusions. Later, as she became critically ill, the courts ruled that she was a "mature minor". They determined that Bethany had brushed close enough to death to understand the consequences of her refusal to take blood. Around the same time Lawrence was estranged from his wife over the blood issue, and the wife hid Bethany from him during her last few months of life. He was called too late to be at her side when she died. If the hospital was continuing to administer chemotherapy without the corresponding replacement of blood, the treatment very well may have hastened her death.
Reading the court documents, I find it very sad that Bethany had a very reasonable philosophy at the beginning. She figured she could be a "passive resister", and that the hospital could administer the transfusions over her protest. The mother was the one who became hysterical, tore at the tubes, etc. The court did not paint the mother in a very flattering light. I find it horrifying that this very sick girl had a "support group" surrounding her in her last days that were actually encouraging her death, her martyrdom. It is also reprehensible that so much energy was expended to estrange her from her loving father.
I sincerely hope the courts can come to some understanding of the twisted reasoning that affected Bethany. She was not as informed and independent (as we know too painfully) as the WTS tried to paint her.