Newsletter #132

Dear Friends and Benefactors, 
Organ donation is a common misunderstood topic.  Catholics must NOT give their vital organs.  Catholics need to be aware that there are new (erroneous) concepts of death in the medical world in order to suit the needs of transplant doctors.
     To comprehend the seriousness of this practice of organ donation, let us listen to the wisdom of Randy Engel, Director of U.S. Coalition for Life and President of the International Foundation for Genetic Research/Michael Fund.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
     I, (Randy Engel), was privileged to have come into the Pro-life Movement at the ground floor in the early 1960s. My initial interest was in federal domestic and foreign population control programs and later eugenic abortion, sex initiation programs in public and parochial schools, human embryo and fetal experimentation, and euthanasia.
     In 1972, I founded the U.S. Coalition for Life as an international pro-life research agency and six years later, with the assistance of the Dr. Jerome Lejeune of the University of Paris, I established the International Foundation for Genetic Research, popularly known as the Michael Fund, as the prolife alternative to the March of Dimes. I have written three books dealing with pro-life issues.
     Given this background, one would think I should have known the truth about unpaired vital organ transplantation as a form of euthanasia, a form of killing, but the sad truth is that while I should have known, I did not know. And I would have remained in my state of ignorance had it not been for Dr. Paul Byrne, an Ohio neonatologist and co-founder of the Life Guardian Foundation, who removed the scales from my eyes and permitted me to see vital organ transplantation for the evil that it is. 
THE ORGAN DONOR INDUSTRY
     Like the abortion industry, the vital organ transplantation industry rests on the utilitarian principle that the end justifies the means. Like the abortion industry, its nexus is hard, cold cash – billions in hard cold cash. The only thing harder and colder that the cash is the hearts of the surgeons and staff who, having come to the knowledge that they must kill a living donor in order to retrieve a healthy organ for a recipient fellow human being, continue to engage in this medical butchery, and rationalize said killing as justifiable on the grounds that that the excised organ will be used to save the life of another living human being.
     Pro-lifers need to make vital organ transplantation a key right to life issue because it is a violation of the Natural Moral Law and God’s Commandment – “Thou shalt not kill.”
PAIRED VS. UNIMPAIRED ORGAN TRANSPLANTS
     From the onset, it is important to distinguish between paired and unpaired organ donation. The transplantation of paired organs such as one of two kidneys, a lobe of a liver or a lobe of a lung is generally permitted provided true informed consent is gotten from the donor and that he fully understands that the removal of these organs/organ parts decreases his own bodily functions. But the case of unpaired, that is, single vital organs such as the heart and the liver, is an altogether different matter.
     By the mid-1960s, following numerous failed attempts at obtaining viable unpaired organs like the heart from fresh cadavers or corpses, it became clear to transplant surgeons that healthy vital organs for transplantation can only be gotten from a living donor – a beating heart can only be obtained from a living human being.
DR. CHRISTIAN BARNARD’S DARK SECRET
     Enter South African surgeon Christian Barnard who had received part of his post graduate medical studies in the United States at the University of Minnesota. It was here that he first met Dr. Norman Shumway, who did much of the pioneering research leading up to the first human heart transplant. Barnard performed the first kidney transplant in South Africa in October 1967, but his primary interest was cardiac surgery. He wanted to do a human heart transplant.
     In November 1967, Barnard found a 54-year-old patient by the name of Louis Washkansky who agreed to participate in the medical experiment as a heart recipient.
     One month later, on December 3, 1967, the father of Denise Darvall, a young woman who was seriously injured in a car accident that killed her mother, gave his permission to have his daughter’s heart excised and transplanted to Mr. Washkansky. That same day, the world’s first human heart transplant operation took place. Barnard was assisted by his brother, Marius. The operation lasted 9 hours and employed a team of 30 medical personnel.
     The immediate problem facing Barnard was that, although Denise’s brain was damaged, her heart was healthy and beating, indicating she was still alive by traditional whole body standards. So, what would make her heart stop so that it could be legally excised? Barnard later told reporters that he had waited for her heart to stop naturally before cutting it out, BUT THIS WAS A LIE. It was not until 40 years later that the public learned the truth.
     At Marius’s urging, after his brother had cleaved open the chest cavity, Christian had injected a concentrated dose of potassium to paralyze Denise’s heart, thus rendering her “technically” dead. Everything had already been prepared so Barnard proceeded to quickly cut the major vessels, cool the heart and sew it into the recipient. Denise was ALIVE BEFORE her heart was excised. She was TRULY DEAD AFTER it was cut out of her body.
     Three days after the Barnard murder, not to be outdone by a doctor in South Africa, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a surgeon at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn cut a beating heart out of a live 3-day-old baby and transplanted into an 18-day-old baby with heart disease. At the end of the day BOTH babies were dead.
A RE-DEFINITION OF DEATH
     The controversy following the Kantrowitz killings was instrumental in the formation of the Harvard Medical School ad hoc Committee to study “brain death” as the new criteria for death.
     The obvious conundrum facing transplantation surgeons was that organs taken from cadavers do not recover from the period of ischemia (loss of blood supply to organs) following true death. After circulation and respiration has stopped, within 4 to 5 minutes the heart and liver are not suitable for transplantation. For kidneys the time is about 30 minutes.
     Equally clear was the realization that in order to continue unpaired vital organ transplantation it would be necessary to redefine death, that is, to establish a new criterion for death that would legally permit the extraction of vital organs from living human beings. Such a redefinition would permit transplantation surgeons to kill with legal immunity.
     In August 1968, the Journal of the American Medical Association published “A Definition of Irreversible Coma: Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death.” No authors were listed. 
      The Harvard Committee cited two reasons for establishing “brain death” as the new criteria for death. The first was the problems surrounding the use of resuscitation and other supportive measures to extend the life of severely injured persons. The second reason was “obsolete criteria for the definition of death can lead to controversy in obtaining organs for transplantation.”
     It should also be noted that the criteria of “brain death” did not originate or develop by way of application of the scientific method of observation and hypothesis followed by verification. The Committee presented no substantiating data either from scientific research or case studies of individual patients. The Committee did NOT determine if irreversible coma was an appropriate criterion for death. Rather, its mission was to see that it was established as a NEW criterion for death. In short, the report was made to fit the already arrived at conclusions.
THE MYTH OF BRAIN DEATH
     Biologically speaking, the body is composed of cells, tissues, organs and eleven systems, including three major vital systems. No one organ or system controls all other organs and systems. Interdependent functioning of organs and systems maintains unity, homeostasis, immune defenses, growth, healing and exchange with environment, (for example – oxygen and carbon dioxide). It might be well to recall at his point that that the human embryo does not develop a brain until he is 6 weeks old, yet he is a living human being from the moment of conception.
     We all recognize the signs of life in a human being including temperature, pulse, blood pressure, respiration, and reflexes. We also recognize the signs of death including the lack of breathing, heartbeat, pulse and blood pressure. Once the soul has departed from the body, what remains is a corpse – empty, cold, blue, rigid and unresponsive to all stimuli. Ventilation will not restore respiration in a corpse. A pacemaker can send a signal, but it CANNOT initiate the heartbeat in the corpse. Healing NEVER occurs in a patient that is truly dead. Certitude is the general putrefaction of the body.
     Using these traditional criteria for death, it is clear that the “brain-dead” patient is TRULY ALIVE. His body is warm and flexible. He has a beating heart, normal color, temperature, and blood pressure. Most functions continue, including digestion, excretion, and maintenance of fluid balance with normal urine output. He is given intravenous feedings, blood transfusions, antibiotics, and other medications necessary to keep him in tip-top shape for the transplantation operation. There will often be a response to surgical incisions. Given a long enough period of observation, he will show signs of healing and growth. If a child, he will begin to go through the stages of puberty.
INSURANCE COMPANIES
     Insurance companies cover the ICU or ER costs for the “brain dead” patient as well as all his medical expenses as they do for other living patients. Any costs involving the transfer of an organ donor to another hospital is covered by insurance. Would they do this for a corpse?
NEW STANDARD OF DEATH ADOPTED BY HOSPITALS
     Shortly after the Harvard Committee report was published in JAMA, “brain death” was adopted as the new standard of death in most hospitals, including Catholic hospitals, in the U.S. By 1978, 30 disparate sets of criteria for “brain death” were published – each set of criteria tending to be less strict than previous sets. The liberal mass media began to adjust its language to accommodate the new “reality” by referring to a “brain dead” donor as a “beating heart cadaver,” “a ventilated corpse,” or the “living dead” implying a person could be alive and dead at the same time. 
SAINT AUGUSTINE
     In “The City of God”, Book XIII, Chapter 11, Saint Augustine addresses the question — Can one be both living and dead at the same time? He replies in the negative, that there is no third state — one is either alive or dead. A man may be dying but he is still alive until he is dead and his soul is separated from his body.
CARDIAC DEATH
     One of these new definitions of death is “cardiac death” which is used when a potential organ donor does not meet the criteria for “brain death,” but he has sustained certain injuries or has an illness suggesting that death will soon occur. Under the cardiac criteria, a patient can be declared dead on the basis of “irreversible (impossible to reverse) cessation of cardiac function,” and his organs harvested for transplantation.
EUTHANASIA
     The unanswered question is: How is it possible to declare that the damage to the donor’s heart was irreversible, meaning impossible to reverse and that the heart had lost all its functions, and then have it work perfectly well after it has been transplanted to a recipient? The answer points in the direction of checkbook euthanasia. Transplantation programs are highly desirable to hospitals as they are high profit programs. Giving vigorous CPR to the “living dead” is not as cost effective as excising and selling his organs.
PROPAGANDA TO GET ORGANS FROM VICTIMS’ FAMILIES
     Although organs can be taken from living persons of all ages, the most desirable candidates for vital organ transplantation are young adults between the ages of 16 and 30, simply because they generally have the healthiest organs. Teenagers are especially prone to risk-taking behaviors, and the organ donor industry has acknowledged this fact by targeting them as potential organ donors using special programs in high schools and State auto license bureaus to encourage young people to “give the gift of life” without providing them with informed consent on the true nature of organ transplantation.
BIG MONEY
     A healthy beating heart or other vital organ brings an average of $24,000 and the body of a ‘brain dead’ donor, an average of $70,000. In a single year, recipients of vital organs or their insurance companies will pay out over $3 billion to the organ donor industry. It should be noted that in addition to major organs, there is a large international market and black market for other spare body parts provided by hospitals, funeral parlors, morgues and crematoriums. A single body can provide several hundred people with organs, tissues, corneas, ligaments, etc. One thing, however, is clear. Donor families DO NOT receive any monetary benefit from their ‘gift of life.’
THE ROLE OF THE DESIGNATED REQUESTER
     The federal government has been deeply involved in promoting organ donation and there are currently at least 63 donor agencies that have been approved by the federal government to procure vital organs for transplantation. These donor agencies have in turn spawned a huge bureaucratic network that drives the organ donor industry. Among the key players in this bureaucracy is the “designated requester.”
     In 1998, the federal government passed a provision mandating that physicians, nurses, chaplains and other health care workers may not speak to a family of a potential organ donor without first obtaining approval from the Regional Organ Retrieval System. If the potential for transplantation exists, a trained “designated requester” visits with the family of the patient first, including families that adamantly oppose organ donation.
DECEPTION BY EMOTION
     Studies have shown that these professional ‘designated requesters’ have a high success rate for obtaining permission for organ donations from grieving family members. This is because they are trained to ‘sell’ the concept of organ donation, using emotionally-laden phrases such as ‘giving the gift of life,’ ‘your loved one’s heart will live on in someone else,’ and other similar platitudes, all empty of true meaning.
     According to Bernice Jones of the Life Guardian Foundation:
         The script delivered to the ‘donor’s’ family has been well orchestrated and rehearsed. …The ‘request,’… has been painstakingly developed through a process in which actors/actresses have been employed to simulate the shock, grief and despair of the patient’s loved ones! …
         Understand, in the midst of a sudden and tragic accident when the patient’s loved ones are severely stressed and traumatized, [they] are approached and the ‘request’ is made! Under no other circumstance is it deemed an ‘appropriate time’ for a patient’s loved one to be forced to make a decision under such duress! …
         Under the sterile, polished and gleaming exterior of the ‘gift of life’ is an ugly, horrifying truth!
         Without the ‘knowledge and consent’” of the patient or the patient’s family members and loved ones, the ICU has been transformed into a keeper of organs! The ‘patient,’ having committed no crime, is condemned to death! The ICU ward is, in effect, death row as the ‘organ donor’ undergoes hours, sometimes days, of torturous treatment utilized as a container of “spare parts!” … until such time a convenient death has been orchestrated and designated! 
VALID TESTIMONY (READ ENTIRE STORY AT THE END OF THIS NEWSLETTER)
     Mrs. Jones can speak with authority because her young son, Brandon, had suffered an accidental gunshot wound to the head and was declared ‘brain dead’ upon arrival at the hospital, and because he had signed on as an organ donor on his driver’s license, was immediately prepared for the removal of his organs which was accomplished some 19 to 20 hours later.  At this point, Brandon Jones was TRULY dead.
DO YOU CARRY AN ORGAN DONOR OPT-OUT CARD?
     No human being should have to face the ignominious death that Brandon Jones experienced, and the ongoing living hell the Jones family was forced to endure once the official hospital records revealed the truth – that Brandon was truly ALIVE and NOT DEAD after the accident, and in fact, had fought to live, up to the very time he was dissected on the operating table.
     As more and more Americans learn the truth about evil of vital organ transplantation and the number of ‘voluntary’ donors declines, it is likely that State legislatures will be pressured into implementing ‘presumed consent’ legislation that will make organ transplantation mandatory unless the individual has declared his opposition to organ transplantation by carrying an opt-out card. 
FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED
     To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
     Every American, especially young adults, needs to carry an opt-out card signed by two witnesses in their wallet or purse …. And as the familiar ad says …. Don’t leave home without it. Your life or that of your loved one may depend upon it.
CHALLENGE FROM A BOSTON NURSE PRACTITIONER
     The following critique of Randy Engel was given by a nurse practitioner in Boston, MA, who works with critical care patients.
     The author (Randy Engel) does not understand brain death, which is when there is no blood flow to the brain, there is no oxygen or nutrition to the brain cells and they die. Without functioning brain cells, the body cannot be maintained for long by artificial means contrary to what this article suggests ….
     She seems to be confusing brain death with vegetative state. A brain dead patient does not respond to pain (or any stimuli) and does not grow, heal and go through puberty. As for donation after cardiac death, the statement about the “irreversibility” of death has been questioned by some. In CMO (Comfort Measures Only) cases, it is per the wish of the patient and/or surrogate that life support be discontinued, regardless of whether the patient is a potential donor …. and therapies are only introduced for comfort, even if a side effect is hastening death (i.e. pain medication may suppress breathing).
     The universal agreement is that a period of 2-5 minutes passes after circulatory cessation before a patient can be declared dead if they are going to be an organ donor. For any other death, the patient can be declared immediately upon circulatory cessation. UMMMC policy dictates a 5-minute wait period before declaration and incision for organ recovery to ensure there will be no auto-resuscitation. There is an inherent understanding that a CMO patient will not be actively resuscitated … so perhaps a heart could be resuscitated after circulatory cessation, but that is not the intent of CMO and would be cruel.
     I would challenge the author to cite one case where a truly brain dead patient’s body was supported for any length of time. All that said, there have, however, been cases where physicians have not followed accepted protocols for declaring brain death and the supposedly “dead’ patient was later found not to be dead. This is why UMMMC insists on a strict adherence to the brain death policy and checklist.
RESPONSE FROM RANDY ENGEL
     “Brain Death” – like its successor “Cardiac Death” and now “Certified Death” (you are dead when the doctor certifies “you are dead, regardless”) – are part of the “Big Lie” propagated by the organ transplantation industry. These terms have no basis in scientific evidence or medical fact, but were conjured up for public consumption by a group of initially anonymous physicians from Harvard Medical School in 1968 for two purposes:
1.     Granting legal immunity to physicians engaged in the black art of obtaining vital healthy organs from living donors, an action which produces real death in these patients, and

2.    Reducing costs for the long-term care and treatment of severely injured brain damaged patients and freeing up beds in intensive care units.

     The Harvard Committee of the new definition of death provided no official diagnostic criteria for irreversible cessation of all brain functions, nor did the drafters provide any evidence in terms of basic scientific studies or clinical data sufficient to ascertain real death as the traditional criteria of death that has served medical science for centuries. By 1978, 30 disparate sets of criteria had been published, each new set less strict than its predecessor.
DR. SHEWMON COMPILED DATA ON 150 CASES OF ‘BRAIN DEAD’ SURVIVOR
     According to Dr. D. Alan Shewmon, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of California (Los Angeles) School of Medicine and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, the fundamental flaw in the “brain death” theory – and a theory it is – is the belief that the brain confers integrative unity upon the body, transforming it from a mere collection of organs and tissues to an “organism as a whole.”
     No single organ, including the brain, controls all the other vital organs. As Shewmon notes, hearts can beat independently without brain function and many other organs continue on their own, even without life in the remainder of the body.
     In summary, the noted neurologist argues that a diagnosis of death by neurological criteria is based on an erroneous theory, not on scientific fact. Also, complete irreversibility of neurological function is an arbitrary prognosis, not a medically observable fact.
     Since my critic challenged me to “cite one case where a truly brain dead patient’s body was supported for any length of time,” I will happily note that Dr. Shewmon, who originally supported the theory of “brain death” until facts changed his opinion, has compiled data on more than 150 long term survivors after a declaration of “brain death.” The longest was TK, diagnosed as “brain dead” at the age of four. He lived another 20 years.
     To increase the number of transplantation donors, a new criteria was soon formulated, that of “cardiac death” based on circulatory and respiratory function as a criterion for determining death. Later, in 1997, we had the Pittsburgh Protocol that declared that cardiac arrest lasting 2-5 minutes causes “cardiac death and that it is ethically acceptable to remove vital organs for transplantation if a patient is in cardiac arrest for 5 minutes.”
PATIENT NOT DEAD AFTER 5 MINUTES
     Yet new cardio-thoracic research demonstrates that a patient whose heart has stopped beating for 15 minutes (or longer) after a heart attack can recover if they are treated by cooling the body to 33 degrees C. by using cardio-pulmonary by-pass, by cardioplegia, that is, stopping the heart beat chemically and slowly increasing oxygenation for 24 hours. Up to 80% of these patients can be discharged from hospital; 55% having a good neurological outcome. Clearly, the assumption made by physicians that a patient is dead five minutes after the heart has stopped beating is INCORRECT.
‘BRAIN DEAD’ PATIENT DOES INDEED FEEL PAIN
     As for the statement made by my opponent that the “brain dead” patient feels no pain, I need only note that when the surgeon sticks his scalpel into the “brain dead” donor, the patient’s pulse and blood pressure shoot up and he begins to move and wriggle around, at which point the surgeon demands that the anesthetist paralyze the donor so the excising of the heart and other vital organs can proceed. If the donor were truly dead, why would he need to be given a paralyzing agent?
DONOR CARD ADVICE
     Before signing a donor card, I suggest EVERYONE read three important articles available online:
 1.    The first is “Brain death – A lie destined to die.” It is a candid view of what actually happens in the hospital operation room during a transplantation procedure. Then ask yourself if this is what you want for yourself or your loved one. Will your body or that of your loved one be treated with dignity and respect or treated like an animal carcass, while the imported transplantation surgeons “are flying home in their Lear jets, laughing and partying awaiting their future glory for ‘saving’ some poor sucker’s life with a transplant”?
 2.    The second article is “Taboo Transgressions in Transplantation Medicine” by Anna Bergmann, Ph.D., which raises some of the spiritual and psychological aspects of vital organ transplantation as a form of cannibalism from the recipient’s perspective.

3.     And finally, the true story of a mother’s experience with organ transplantation found after the SUMMARY.
         It was Mrs. Bernice Jones’ story that drew my initial attention to the criminal act of vital organ transplantation.
   SUMMARY
        In closing I would like to recall the statement of Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska to the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences in 2005: “No respectable, learned, and accepted moral Catholic theologian has said that the words of Jesus regarding laying down one’s life for one’s friends (Saint John 15:13) is a command or even A LICENSE FOR SUICIDAL CONSENT for the benefit of another’s continuation of earthly life” (emphasis added).

MRS. BERNICE JONES’ STORY
     “Oh, God, no! No! Send legions of angels to protect him! God Almighty, guard him-save his life!” I screamed as I rushed to him. Playing with a handgun, my son had shot himself in the head with a small caliber hand gun. He was unconscious. 911 was called.
     There were no sirens and no lights flashing as the ambulance pulled up to the house.
     Don’t leave my son, Jesus, I beg of Thee!” I stood looking about at those who had arrived. When I made eye contact with them, they turned their heads from me. “Is this really happening? God, is this really happening?”
     There were no sirens and no lights flashing as the ambulance drove slowly to the hospital. I was not allowed to ride with him. I was in a separate vehicle.
     There was no mask on his face. “He is alive!” I begged to go with him into ER, but was again denied.
     The next thing I remembered was being somewhere in the hospital in a corner on the floor. I was sobbing and I remember being very, very cold. I was escorted into a small room and the door was shut. A man entered and introduced himself as the hospital Chaplain. Although I do not remember when it was that I had called friends and my church, I told him that my pastor was coming. I cannot explain the presence of evil that engulfed me.
     I was joined by family and friends.
     Shortly after having arrived at the hospital, the doctor announced, “Your son is “brain dead.” There is nothing that I can do to help him. He has been “brain dead” since the accident. He cannot breathe on his own and has been put on a respirator. There is no hope for his recovery.”
     My husband responded as he rose to his feet, “You do everything you can to help my son!” The doctor said he would do surgery on our son just so we would know, “. . . that I have done everything I could to salvage your son. I want you to know that in my personal opinion it will be hopeless, but I will do this for you.”
     The doctor turned and left. “Salvage . . .salvage? Is he going to die? God, please no!”
     We pleaded to see our son, but again, we were denied.
     We were moved to another room (since I have referred to this as the containment room). I can remember the walk down the hall. We were escorted by a woman in a blue suit. Someone was supporting my daughter as she was trembling and wailing. I had to fight to try to focus as though I was peering through a long, narrow tube. Everyone looked far way. Their faces resembled the faces of my family, yet they did not look exactly like them. Voices were muffled. I was freezing cold and trembling uncontrollably.
     We waited. We prayed. We had hope-even though none was offered at this place.
     Standing in the hall, the nurse who was attending to our son walked by and we asked her how our son was doing. “Fine,” she said. “Other than a problem with some fluid on his lungs, he’s doing good.” When she saw the look on our faces she made a speedy exit.
     The woman in the blue suit kept offering us something to drink. She appeared to be nice. Someone on the hospital staff, I presumed. Her presence was constant.
THE BLANKET OF DEATH
     Three hours had passed since our son had been admitted to ER and we had prayerfully waited for the news of his surgery. The doctor entered the room and announced that there was nothing that could be done. He told us to say “good-bye” and as he showed us to our son’s room, he warned us of how he looked, “Brace yourself, it is a gruesome sight.”
     Upon entering the room where my son lay, nothing could have prepared my family and me for what we were about to witness. Our oldest son yelled and began to collapse and we rushed to his aid. Terror seized us. “Oh, God! What have they done to him?!”
     The doctor said, “Look at this.” As he pointed to a small box he explained that the pressure within our son’s brain was at the highest level. “His brain is dead. There is no hope. He is dying.”
     Then I heard this terrifying noise. I could not recognize it. Then I realized it had come out of me, somewhere deep from within. It was an ugly noise and it would not stop. I couldn’t stop this noise and it scared me. Something snapped inside me. I think I died-a part of me died. Now I am using a restroom. Now I am standing outside. I want to run! I am screaming. Suddenly my daughter is there. I look into her eyes, “This-isn’t-real. This is not happening!” My daughter is holding me and saying “It is real.” “No! No!” I heard screaming. Was that my voice? It was as if I could see myself standing at a distance.
     My existence was surreal. The only thing I could feel was penetrating cold.
     I can remember being in the containment room again. The woman in the blue suit was standing at the door. I was telling the grandparents what the doctor had said. “Is that my voice?” I remember wondering. It was as if someone else was speaking. The voice did not sound like mine. There was a foreign voice within me and it echoed when I spoke.
     I am in the room with my son again. In the corner there are two nurses. They are looking at a black box. Their heads are close together and their eyes are fixed on this box. I move to my son’s left side and rub his hand, kissing it. I am speaking to him. I am telling him how much I love him, “Don’t die, please, don’t die. I cannot live without you,” I say to him. I see a bag hanging on the side of the bed. It is his urine. The bag is full. I go to his left foot and rub his foot. I speak to him. I am crying-I know because my tears drop on his foot. I walk to the end of his bed and around to his right foot and hand. I see under the bandage the rim of a hole on his head-a large hole. This was not there before. A tube runs from this hole into a plastic cup on his pillow where blood pools. His eyes are swollen and black and blue. His head is swollen 2-3 times normal. “They have tried to kill him.” I remember saying. I’m hugging my son, sobbing and I tell him, “I will see you in Heaven, I will love you forever. Jesus said that today you will be with Him in paradise.” I ask that our pastor speak a blessing over him. Our pastor is there, he is saying words-I try to hear him, I try to listen, but I cannot. I lift up the plastic blanket that is draped over him and put my hand on his chest. I feel fear. Someone says I must leave; the doctor needs to run a test. I speak to my son, “If you are not here, your sunset will no longer have brilliance.” I don’t know why I said this, but my son loved the sunset so.
     I turn and see the two nurses, their eyes wide. One whispers to the other. They are transfixed on the black box. I look down at the floor, and my eyes follow wires to my son’s arm, finger, and chest. What? Is it fear I see on their faces. Yes. Fear-they seem to be excited about something they see as they stare at this box. It is turned to them, away from me. The other box has a wire that runs to the front of my son’s forehead. What do they see? “You must leave now.” I do not want to leave. Someone is pulling me away. I cannot see their faces. Everything is blurry now.
     I am walking down the hall. We are led to the containment room. I’m gripped by fear-an incomprehensible state of anguish and terror. There are no human words to adequately describe this state of mind. Was this hell? Wailing and choking, I look into the eyes of my family. An evil is present-a spirit is amongst us-I can feel a dark presence. I am cold, like ice. Is this death? Is this what death is? “Am I going crazy-that’s it! I’m just going insane!” My mind-is that what I hear?!
DECEIVED
     Five and a half hours after my son had been admitted into ER, we were told to wait for the doctor to return with the test results.
     The doctor comes into the room. He says that he has completed a test. He took the machine that was breathing for our son off, he explained and our son did not breathe. “He is dead.” My husband and I wanted to see our son, but the doctor said it was time for us to go home. “Your son is dead.” The woman in the blue suit stood beside the doctor. The doctor introduced her and said that she was an organ procurement agent and that she wanted to speak to us.
     The woman began, “Even in your son’s death he could help others. He liked people and enjoyed helping others, didn’t he?” My family and I were out of our minds in shock and anguish! Sobbing, choking and groans could be heard. I stomped out of the room. My pastor and daughter followed me down the hall. I explained to them both that I felt the presence of evil. I asked my pastor to go back and be with my husband and son. I told him to stop that woman. Minutes later, we tried to re-enter the corridor doors in which we had exited, but they were locked. For several minutes we knocked and knocked trying to attract someone’s attention. Finally, a nurse let us in.
     Returning to the room, only my family remained. A nurse told us it was time to go home.
     My husband and son were coerced into signing. However, later, my husband said he could not tell me what it was they signed. They had been convinced, as she so eloquently spoke, “This charitable act of kindness would save the lives of others and would give meaning and purpose to such a tragic death. This is what he would have wanted-to continue to help others, now wouldn’t he?”
     “This is a horrible nightmare-this isn’t happening!”
     I do not remember leaving the hospital or the trip home.
     I stayed on my knees that night in prayer as I leaned against the wall. I rose only on occasion to go from one family member to the next as they would awake from sleep crying out. I could do nothing to relieve their pain. I cried out to God, “I trusted you, Lord! I trusted you that you would not let my son die!”
     The next day more family arrived. My mother’s small home was crowded. My husband and father placed many calls to tell friends that our son had died. I told family members that I would rather die than be in the pain I was in.
24 HRS AFTER MY SON’S ACCIDENT, GOD SPOKE TO ME
     I was standing in the middle of the room, “My son is alive! God spoke to me! Take me to the hospital! He is alive!” My family gathered around me as my husband held me and spoke, “No, no! He isn’t at the hospital. He isn’t alive. He is at the funeral parlor now.” I struggle to free myself from my husband’s restraint. I begged him to listen to me. I told him to take me to the hospital or I would walk.
     My family thought I had gone insane.
     Early the next morning my mother collapsed. She had torn her nose from her face in her fall, blood covered her. This precious grandmother had suffered a stroke. At the hospital I stayed by her the entire time. The Lord of Life at our side.
     I looked around the room that day at my family. I sat sobbing, my mother in her chair, her face bruised, stitches across her nose. Broken and wounded, my family literally struggled to survive. My heart was heavy and I could feel a pain that was of the depth of my soul.
THE HAUNTING
     My family was becoming more concerned as the days went on. My daughter, I was to learn later, feared that I would die of a broken heart. She revealed to me that my death was something she anticipated.
     I caused my family additional grief as I began to share with them things that I was being made aware of. I could see my son in the hospital and saw things impossible for me to have known. I could not sleep as I could see my son in the hospital, crying and calling my name. I would awake gasping for air and my heart racing.
     My husband knew that I was having these violent physical attacks. I could not eat or sleep. As the days went on, I saw visions and heard the voice of my son calling out from the hospital. The knowledge that I had left my son to die tormented me. My husband assumed I was just having nightmares. He tried to console me, yet this was not possible. He pleaded with me not to die. “I cannot bear to loose you too,” he said as he held me in his arms.
     When I announced to my family I had submitted the appropriate documents to retrieve our son’s hospital, EMT and fire department records, you can only imagine what they thought.
     I could not shake the evil feeling nor could I deny the words of my God. I continually questioned everyone about everything that happened. I had called trying to make arrangements to meet with the organ donation company that was involved with our son. My husband did not remember what was said, what transpired or what had been signed. My husband could not remember signing anything. I requested the records from them. This caused much pain to resurface for my family.
     At this time, my mother confessed that she had tried to stop the signing of the donor papers. She was repulsed by what she had heard. Due to the obvious state of shock and pain in which my husband and son were in and not capable of comprehending, she commented to the procurement agent to stop. She asked that I be asked about this. “Don’t sign anything without letting his mother see this.” The agent glared at her when she suggested they speak to me first. “I felt something evil about all of this,” she said.
TWISTED
     My husband went to the X-ray department of the hospital to pick-up the documents and the X-rays of our son. The woman attending the desk slipped the X-rays from the large envelope and said, “Oh. Well at least he’s OK, isn’t he?” My husband was shocked and replied, “No, matter-of-fact, my son died here in this hospital!” The woman’s eyes widened, she dropped the X-rays, backed away from the counter, turned and walked away. My husband had to help himself to the items she had gathered for him.
     The ambulance and hospital records revealed an entirely different account of what took place that dark day.
     In the ambulance our son was conscious and “used purposeful movement with his left arm.” He was then given drugs that would sedate him and increase his heart rate. Records stated he had a gag reflex.
     There was no mention of the drugs used in the ambulance in the hospital records. In ER he was responding to pain, breathing on his own and continued to have a gag reflex.
     In laymen’s terms, he had flunked the clinical criteria for “brain death.”
     In an effort to ventilate him he was given pain meds and repeated doses of a paralyzing drug-seven repeated doses. My son fought for his life against those that tried to overtake him. Oh! How our son was tortured.
      X-rays were taken-however, their findings were not recorded in the hospital records until much later, long after he had been declared a “donor” and “brain dead” and after his surgery. The notations made here indicated no major damage to the main part of his brain. This statement was repeated more than once throughout the medical documents.
     He had a head injury, no doubt, requiring intensive treatment. What he received, rather, was a death sentence as he was immediately treated as an organ donor. The ER admitting records indicate, “brain dead,” “fatal head injury” and “donor.”
     The Swan-Ganz line, oversaturating his system with fluids and all other procedures for the pretreatment of living human dissection was done. This is standard protocol for “organ donors”-a procedure immediately implemented. Unbeknownst to all of us, conscious and fighting for his life, he was being prepared to be conveniently killed.
PRONOUNCED DEAD ONCE? TWICE? THREE TIMES? THEN MURDERED!
     Pronounced “brain dead” in ER and a “donor,” obviously alive, he is pronounced dead three more times!!
     First death-a convenience death-invented to schedule and regulate the actual time of real death. We were told five hours after his having been admitted into ER that he was “dead.” The hospital records confirm this time, stating “brain death” had occurred after the apnea test was performed. Obviously my son’s organs had already been sold to the highest bidder-he received the death sentence and despite his fight for life, he had been condemned to death. Despite the fact that he could not respond due to being sedated, “brain death” was pronounced.
     Second death: the “paper death”-the death certificate. This indicates that he died one and one half hours prior to the apnea test and having been labeled “brain dead!”
     Third death-the true “physical death”-having completed their ritualistic rite, our son had been dissected alive and in doing so, killed. The medical records indicate that our son had been given anesthesia nineteen hours after he was suppose to be DEAD! Two drugs were administered-one to relieve pain and a paralyzing drug to inhibit movement-prior to this fatal dissection-half way through his torture, all pain medications was withdrawn. The length of time for his beating heart and other vital organs to be cut out was three and one half hours.
     The doctors and staff at this hospital had listed a variety of different times of death. Relatives testified having called the hospital inquiring of our son’s condition was told he had died-two and one half hours prior to the apnea test and one and one half hour prior to the death certificate. The hospital reported to a newspaper he died the following morning. There were so many conflicting reports that it was all too obvious to many the seriousness problems of the “brain death” declaration of death.
A LIVING HELL
     Unbeknownst to us, alive and fighting for his life, our son was repeatedly and constantly being tormented and tortured. I have to live with this and it has been a daily struggle.
     I now know that my son responded to my touch and voice. The “box” that the two nurses were viewing was that of my son’s vital signs. There is no doubt in my mind that his blood pressure and heart rate increased in my presence. I also have no doubt that the reason for the “box” being turned away from me and my family was to conceal the signs of his life-heart beat, respiration, and blood pressure. I have asked Jesus a million times to forgive me of my ignorance and for delivering my son to this throne of demons.
     I asked for my son’s blessings. I had told him that Jesus would see him “today” in heaven-all as if he his death were imminent-and I know that he was listening. I can only imagine his horror! I left him for dead! I left him there alone and walked away. God have mercy on me!
     I believe that had I not been deceived, my son would be alive today. The two doctors’ reports stated this fact. I believe whole heartedly that the Lord of Life did hear my prayers. Had I not requested that he be delivered into the hands of a level one hospital where organ transplantation is facilitated in great haste, he would have been treated for his injury. I understand now the fight that I had to take him to this hospital, for those of the fire department and ambulance crew knew the lurking evil. Their silence was deadly.

     There is a price paid for deception and the lack of knowledge. The consequence, of which I can attest, will affect me my entire life. Organ donation and my ignorance thereof was the vehicle, the tool necessary for the organ transplant team to carry out their sadistic plan.
     I have to live with this ugliness and wait to see my son again. This pain-this incredible void-is most difficult to endure. I cannot view his pictures and enjoy the memories of this beautiful creature that God created, blessing me with his birth and life. I am haunted by the TRUTH of what I witnessed and the revealing of his torture and death. My negligence of his foolishness and playing with a gun is a burden all of its own. To allow him to be taught such a perverse doctrine is quite another, this having the ability to take his life given any number of medical scenarios that could have arisen in his lifetime. You see, he had permitted “organ donor” to be put on his drivers’ license at which time the preparations for the ceremonial sacrifice commenced.
     “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”

AVE  MARIA!
Father Joseph Poisson

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