Thursday, November 29, 2007

Teen Jehovah's Witness Leukemia Patient Dies After Refusing Blood Transfusion


MOUNT VERNON, Washington - A few hours after a Mount Vernon judge ruled that a 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood transfusion, even though that refusal might kill him, the boy died in a Seattle hospital.
Dennis Lindberg of Mount Vernon died shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday in his bed at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, the boy's biological father, Dennis Lindberg Sr., told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Frontline Phonics