Numa declaração juramentada assinada e apresentada à Suprema Corte de Terra Nova, Adrian Yeatts escreveu que sabia que poderia morrer sem sangue, que ninguém o havia convencido a tomar essa decisão e que uma transfusão ‘will be like raping me, molesting my body’, terminando com ‘Please respect me and my wishes.’

Awake!, “He ‘Remembered His Creator in the Days of His Youth’”

22 de maio de 1994 · p.6 · par. 24 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

“I won’t agree to blood or let it be used; no way. I know I could die if no blood is used. But that is my decision. No one talked me into that. … The way I feel is that if I’m given any blood that will be like raping me, molesting my body. … Please respect me and my wishes.”

Extracts from a signed affidavit prepared by Adrian, who was too ill to appear, and put before the Supreme Court of Newfoundland on Monday 19 July 1993 by counsel, David C. Day QC. The article prints the affidavit at length. The second ellipsis in the quotation spans both further affidavit text (‘I don’t want my body if that happens… I’ll resist use of blood.’) and the magazine’s own narration, ‘Adrian’s affidavit ended with this appeal:’; the closing sentence is the affidavit’s, but it is introduced by the magazine and not printed continuously with the rest.

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