(November 30, 2007)--A Seattle newspaper says a 14-year-old Jehovah's Witness who had leukemia has died a few hours after a judge ruled that he had a religious right to refuse a blood transfusion.
Dennis Lindberg's father told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that his son died Wednesday night.
Earlier Wednesday, Judge John Meyer had denied a motion by the state to force the boy to have a transfusion, saying the eighth-grader knew "he's basically giving himself a death sentence."
Judge Meyer acknowledged that doctors had given Dennis a 70 percent chance of surviving the next five years with the transfusions and other treatment.
But Meyer said the boy was mature and as a Jehovah's Witness believed that a transfusion would make him "unclean and unworthy."
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