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Twelve-year-old Lisa Kosack died (no date given) in Canada after holding off transfusion therapy by declaring that she would "fight any court-authorized transfusion with all the strength she could muster, that she would scream and struggle, that she would pull the injecting device out of her arm and would attempt to destroy the blood in the bag over her bed" (The Watchtower, June 15, 1991, page 31) -- that she "would fight and kick the IV pole down and rip out the IV no matter how much it would hurt, and poke holes in the blood." (May 22, 1994, Awake! magazine, page 13)
Lisa's photo appears prominently here (center right) on the front cover of the May 22, 1994 Awake! magazine.
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The feature articles on "Youths Who Put God First" fill the first fifteen pages -- nearly half the issue.
The caption for Lisa's cover photo states that "thousands of youths died for putting God first" in "former times" and adds that "they are still doing it, only today the drama is played out in hospitals and courtrooms, with blood transfusions the issue." Nowhere, though, do the articles specify exactly which "former times" are referred to. (AWAKE! May 22, 1994, page 2) Nor are any statistics provided on whether the number of Jehovah's Witness youths dying "todayŠwith blood transfusions the issue" similarly runs into the thousands, or not.
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