L'affirmation largement reprise selon laquelle tous les jeunes représentés sur la couverture de 1994 seraient morts n'est pas étayée par le numéro lui-même, qui n'identifie que six personnes nommées et ne rapporte l'issue que pour celles-là, sans dire qui figure sur la couverture.
Claim ID claim-blood-1994-cover-count-unsupportedConcerns 22 mai 1994Contexte
L'affirmation largement reprise selon laquelle tous les jeunes représentés sur la couverture de 1994 seraient morts n'est pas étayée par le numéro lui-même, qui n'identifie que six personnes nommées et ne rapporte l'issue que pour celles-là, sans dire qui figure sur la couverture. Source: Awake!, 22 mai 1994Source: Awake!, 22 mai 1994Source: Awake!, 22 mai 1994
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Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
22 mai 1994 · p.2 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“In former times thousands of youths died for putting God first. They are still doing it, only today the drama is played out in hospitals and courtrooms, with blood transfusions the issue.”
The contents page introduces the series ‘Youths Who Put God First’ on pages 3–15. It does not name or count the young people pictured on the cover.
Notes.The cover (a montage of photographs of young people beneath the title) is not reproduced on the Online Library; a low-resolution scan hosted by a discovery site was viewed but the number of people pictured could not be reliably counted from it.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-g-1994-0522-contents
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
22 mai 1994 · pp.3-8 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“I just could not live with myself if I am given blood.”
The article, narrated by his father, describes Adrian Yeatts of Newfoundland, Canada, aged 14, diagnosed with a fast-growing abdominal lymphoma in March 1993 and subsequently leukaemia. Newfoundland’s Supreme Court (Justice Robert Wells) held in July 1993 that he was a mature minor whose refusal of blood would be respected. He was baptised in a hospital physiotherapy tank on 12 September 1993 and the article records that he died the next day. A boxed item describes a bloodless heart transplant for three-year-old the three-year-old in Ohio of Ohio in October 1993, reported a month later as doing well. The article also records the medical advice as the family reported it: Dr Jardine 'explained that a very aggressive chemotherapy program with blood transfusions was the only way Adrian could possibly live'; 'chemotherapy was started, without the transfusions'; and it closes by saying that he rejected transfusions 'that could conceivably have extended his present life'.
22 mai 1994 · pp.9-15 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“After a long, difficult night, at 6:30 a.m., September 22, 1993, Lenae fell asleep in death in the arms of her mother.”
The article profiles four young people: Lenae Martinez, 12, Fresno, California, leukaemia — recorded as having died on 22 September 1993; the New York seventeen-year-old, 17, New York City, inflammatory bowel disease — ‘Crystal never needed blood, and none was ever transfused’; Lisa Kosack, 12, Toronto, acute myeloid leukaemia — ‘She died peacefully at home, in the loving arms of her mother and father’; E.G., 17, Chicago, leukaemia — ‘Ernestine had no further transfusions, and she did not die from her leukemia.’ E.G. (par. 59) was transfused once under a trial-court order 'in spite of her vigorous protests'; the Illinois Appellate Court and the Illinois Supreme Court then upheld her right to refuse (pars. 60-61), and the article records that she 'had no further transfusions, and she did not die from her leukemia' (par. 63).
Note de provenance et de vérification for Awake!, Youths Who Have ‘Power Beyond What Is Normal’
Note sur la fiabilité.Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026; names, ages, places and outcome sentences confirmed from the article text.
Notes.Together with the first article, the issue names six young people: three recorded as having died and three recorded as alive at the time of writing.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-g-1994-0522-power-beyond-normal
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