Fatal conversion
PA Auckland A man who converted to the Jehovah’s Witness faith only the night before a serious motor-cycle accident later died of his injuries after he refused a blood transfusion. The Coroner’s Court at Auckland was told on Wednesday that Terence George Smith, aged 34, a printer, of Wellsford, was not a practising Jehovah’s
Witness. The night before he was involved in the crash he had accepted his wife’s Jehovah’s Witness beliefs that blood transfusions were against God’s law. The Coroner, Mr Stephen Osborne, found that Mr Smith died from loss of blood after rupture of the spleen, an injury suffered in a collision with a tractor near Wellsford on February 4.
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Press, 13 March 1987, Page 3
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