The organisation’s current cumulative index, the Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026, still lists Adrian Yeatts, Lisa Kosack, Joshua Walker and Brunella Inconditi by name, each tagged ‘(blood case)’, with the page range of the article about them; the 1994 and 1995 articles remain published on the Watchtower Online Library.
Claim ID claim-blood-1994-index-still-listsConcerns 2026Context
The organisation’s current cumulative index, the Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026, still lists Adrian Yeatts, Lisa Kosack, Joshua Walker and Brunella Inconditi by name, each tagged ‘(blood case)’, with the page range of the article about them; the 1994 and 1995 articles remain published on the Watchtower Online Library. Source: Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026, 2026Source: Awake!, 22 May 1994Source: Awake!, 22 May 1994
The organisation’s current cumulative index, covering 1986 to 2026, lists these young people by name under Canada, each tagged ‘(blood case)’, together with ‘Inconditi, Brunella (blood case): w94 7/1 29-31’ and ‘Cadoreth, April: kr 162-164’. The index also supplies the page range of each account.
Provenance and verification note for Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026, Canada (subheading ‘persons’)
Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026, the day after the announced change to the blood position; the entries and page ranges were read from the index page itself.
Notes. The index is the organisation’s own finding aid. Its continued listing of these accounts as ‘blood case’ entries is the clearest available evidence that the 1994 and 1995 articles remain part of the published corpus.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID.src-g94d-wt-index-1986-2026-canada
22 May 1994 · pp.3-8 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“I just could not live with myself if I am given blood.”
The article, narrated by his father, describes Adrian Yeatts of Newfoundland, Canada, aged 14, diagnosed with a fast-growing abdominal lymphoma in March 1993 and subsequently leukaemia. Newfoundland’s Supreme Court (Justice Robert Wells) held in July 1993 that he was a mature minor whose refusal of blood would be respected. He was baptised in a hospital physiotherapy tank on 12 September 1993 and the article records that he died the next day. A boxed item describes a bloodless heart transplant for three-year-old the three-year-old in Ohio of Ohio in October 1993, reported a month later as doing well. The article also records the medical advice as the family reported it: Dr Jardine 'explained that a very aggressive chemotherapy program with blood transfusions was the only way Adrian could possibly live'; 'chemotherapy was started, without the transfusions'; and it closes by saying that he rejected transfusions 'that could conceivably have extended his present life'.
22 May 1994 · pp.9-15 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“After a long, difficult night, at 6:30 a.m., September 22, 1993, Lenae fell asleep in death in the arms of her mother.”
The article profiles four young people: Lenae Martinez, 12, Fresno, California, leukaemia — recorded as having died on 22 September 1993; the New York seventeen-year-old, 17, New York City, inflammatory bowel disease — ‘Crystal never needed blood, and none was ever transfused’; Lisa Kosack, 12, Toronto, acute myeloid leukaemia — ‘She died peacefully at home, in the loving arms of her mother and father’; E.G., 17, Chicago, leukaemia — ‘Ernestine had no further transfusions, and she did not die from her leukemia.’ E.G. (par. 59) was transfused once under a trial-court order 'in spite of her vigorous protests'; the Illinois Appellate Court and the Illinois Supreme Court then upheld her right to refuse (pars. 60-61), and the article records that she 'had no further transfusions, and she did not die from her leukemia' (par. 63).
Provenance and verification note for Awake!, Youths Who Have ‘Power Beyond What Is Normal’
Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; names, ages, places and outcome sentences confirmed from the article text.
Notes. Together with the first article, the issue names six young people: three recorded as having died and three recorded as alive at the time of writing.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID.src-g-1994-0522-power-beyond-normal
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