Teen refuses blood for religious reason, dies

0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Nov 30, 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 biological father, Dennis Lindberg Sr., told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

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