After the hearing the treating doctor told Adrian Yeatts he had one or two weeks to live; he lived a further eight weeks, was baptised in a hospital physiotherapy tank on 12 September 1993 and died the next day.
Claim ID claim-blood-1994-yeatts-prognosis-and-deathConcerns 13 September 1993Explicit statement
After the hearing the treating doctor told Adrian Yeatts he had one or two weeks to live; he lived a further eight weeks, was baptised in a hospital physiotherapy tank on 12 September 1993 and died the next day. Source: Awake!, 22 May 1994Source: Awake!, 22 May 1994
Provenance and verification note for Awake!, He ‘Remembered His Creator in the Days of His Youth’
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22 May 1994 · p.8 · par. 42 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“So the nurses kindly arranged for him to use one of the stainless steel tanks in the physiotherapy room. He was baptized there September 12; he died the next day, September 13.”
The closing of the mother’s account. Baptism is the act by which a person formally becomes one of Jehovah’s Witnesses; Adrian was baptised the day before he died, having refused blood since March of that year.
Provenance and verification note for Awake!, He ‘Remembered His Creator in the Days of His Youth’
Confidence note. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.
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