SW News: Hundreds of people gathered at Priory Park in Southend-on-Sea in the UK to attend the vigil held in remembrance of 12-year-old boy Archie Battersbee, who died on August 6, after his life support was removed at the Royal London Hospital, in spite of his parents’ plea to continue the life-sustaining treatment.

The crowd gathered on Sunday at the park’s bandstand and released purple balloons with the writing, “forever in our hearts" into the air, reported the BBC.

Archie’s mother, Hollie Dance, was also present for the vigil. She expressed gratitude to the gathering saying, thank you for "supporting us while we were in that awful place", said the report.

"I hope you all stand by me in trying to change this law... so that no more of our children and their parents go through this,” she said.

Archie had been hospitalized since April, after falling into a coma while participating in an alleged online challenge. It was his mother who found him unconscious at their home in Southend, Essex. The boy, who got baptized into the Catholic Church this April, was completely bedridden with life-supporting machines at The Royal London Hospital.

The hospital officials insisted on removing the life-supporting machines from Archie saying that the boy was “brain-stem dead”. The parents, who were reluctant to this proposal, approached the courts for legal support. But the courts ruled in favor of the doctors.