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"stoney" |
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30 Nov 2007 10:01:30 AM |
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Boy dies after refusing transfusion over religion |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22032266/wid/11915773?gt1=10613
Boy dies after refusing transfusion over religion
14-year-old Jehovah's Witness thought treatment would make him
‘unclean’
updated 8:31 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2007
SEATTLE - {AP} A few hours after a judge ruled that a 14-year-old
Jehovah’s Witness sick with leukemia had the right to refuse a blood
transfusion that might have helped him, the boy died, a newspaper
reported.
Dennis Lindberg died Wednesday night at Children’s Hospital and
Regional Medical Center, his father, Dennis Lindberg Sr., told the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Hospital spokeswoman Teri Thomas said she could not confirm or deny
anything about the case at the request of the boy’s legal guardian,
his aunt Dianna Mincin.
Earlier Wednesday, Skagit County Superior Court Judge John Meyer had
denied a motion by the state to force the boy to have a blood
transfusion. The judge said the eighth-grader knew “he’s basically
giving himself a death sentence.”
“I don’t believe Dennis’ decision is the result of any coercion. He is
mature and understands the consequences of his decision,” the judge
said during the hearing. “I don’t think Dennis is trying to commit
suicide. This isn’t something Dennis just came upon, and he believes
with the transfusion he would be unclean and unworthy.”
Doctors had given Dennis a 70 percent chance of surviving the next
five years with the transfusions and other treatment, the judge added.
Doctors diagnosed the boy’s leukemia in early November. They began
chemotherapy at Children’s Hospital, but stopped a week ago because
his blood count was too low, the Skagit Valley Herald reported. The
boy refused the transfusion on religious grounds.
However, his birth parents, Lindberg and Rachel Wherry, who do not
have custody and flew from Boise, Idaho, to be at the hearing,
believed their son should have had the transfusion and suggested he
had been unduly influenced by his aunt, who is also a Jehovah’s
Witness.
The aunt has declined to talk about the case.
The boy’s father told the Post-Intelligencer the ruling shocked him
but after visiting his son later Wednesday, he decided not to appeal.
He said doctors told him Wednesday evening that the boy, unconscious
since Tuesday, had likely suffered brain damage.
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| User: "Don Martin" |
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30 Nov 2007 03:15:04 PM |
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:01:30 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
The boy’s father told the Post-Intelligencer the ruling shocked him
but after visiting his son later Wednesday, he decided not to appeal.
He said doctors told him Wednesday evening that the boy, unconscious
since Tuesday, had likely suffered brain damage.
The brain damage began with the conversion.
WOA (Wicked Old Atheist) #2278
If you can't be a dirty old man,
what is the point of being an old man?
Through a jaundiced eye darkly--rheum with a view.
The Squeeky Wheel http://home.comcast.net/~drdonmartin/
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: Boy dies after refusing transfusion over religion |
01 Dec 2007 03:14:34 AM |
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:15:04 -0500, Don Martin
<drdonmartin@comcast.net> wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:01:30 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
The boy’s father told the Post-Intelligencer the ruling shocked him
but after visiting his son later Wednesday, he decided not to appeal.
He said doctors told him Wednesday evening that the boy, unconscious
since Tuesday, had likely suffered brain damage.
The brain damage began with the conversion.
If nothing else, perhaps he'll manage to become the youngest Darwin
Award candidate.
WOA (Wicked Old Atheist) #2278
If you can't be a dirty old man,
what is the point of being an old man?
Through a jaundiced eye darkly--rheum with a view.
The Squeeky Wheel http://home.comcast.net/~drdonmartin/
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Boy dies after refusing transfusion over religion |
13 Dec 2007 07:44:48 PM |
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:15:04 -0500, Don Martin
<drdonmartin@comcast.net> wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:01:30 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
The boy’s father told the Post-Intelligencer the ruling shocked him
but after visiting his son later Wednesday, he decided not to appeal.
He said doctors told him Wednesday evening that the boy, unconscious
since Tuesday, had likely suffered brain damage.
The brain damage began with the conversion.
Yes, and he eliminated himself from the gene pool.
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: Boy dies after refusing transfusion over religion |
30 Nov 2007 11:25:57 PM |
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stoney wrote:
Earlier Wednesday, Skagit County Superior Court Judge John Meyer had
denied a motion by the state to force the boy to have a blood
transfusion. The judge said the eighth-grader knew "he's basically
giving himself a death sentence."
"I don't believe Dennis' decision is the result of any coercion. He is
mature and understands the consequences of his decision," the judge
said during the hearing. "I don't think Dennis is trying to commit
suicide. This isn't something Dennis just came upon, and he believes
with the transfusion he would be unclean and unworthy."
OK...14-year-old kids aren't mature enough to make decisions on their own
regarding sex, no problem. But this fuckwad thinks thhey are mature enough
to make life-and-death decisions?
I hope some sort of legal action is taken against this idiot. He's not
competent to sit on the bench.
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: Boy dies after refusing transfusion over religion |
13 Dec 2007 07:47:23 PM |
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On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 00:25:57 -0500, "Geoff" <gebobs@yahoo.nospam.com>
wrote:
stoney wrote:
Earlier Wednesday, Skagit County Superior Court Judge John Meyer had
denied a motion by the state to force the boy to have a blood
transfusion. The judge said the eighth-grader knew "he's basically
giving himself a death sentence."
"I don't believe Dennis' decision is the result of any coercion. He is
mature and understands the consequences of his decision," the judge
said during the hearing. "I don't think Dennis is trying to commit
suicide. This isn't something Dennis just came upon, and he believes
with the transfusion he would be unclean and unworthy."
OK...14-year-old kids aren't mature enough to make decisions on their own
regarding sex, no problem. But this fuckwad thinks thhey are mature enough
to make life-and-death decisions?
Clearly, he doesn't think.
I hope some sort of legal action is taken against this idiot. He's not
competent to sit on the bench.
/cue Thomas, Alito, and the other waste of skin.
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