At least with the WTS changing their ridiculous doctrine of "No Organ Transplants" policy, Seth Thomas was given a chance for additional life, wife and child. There were at least 15 years with the WTS ban on organ transplants. How many died or had long-term unnecessary sufferings? Hopefully, some day the WTS will also change their ridiculous policy on blood transfusions so that other JWs can have a chance for continued life as well.
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KNOCKING Update
February 2011
www.knocking.org
PBS SUBJECT SETH THOMAS DIES AT 30
Seth Thomas, who received a transfusion-free liver transplant to meet his Jehovah's Witness religious beliefs in the 2007 PBS documentary "Knocking," has died. He was 30.
A recurrence of disease in the past year damaged Seth's new liver. Despite a series of hospitalizations, doctors were unable to stop the progression of liver failure. Another liver transplant was not possible. Seth leaves his wife Nina and their 8-month-old son Seth Jr.
Seth's parents Ralph and Audrey and sister Jennifer, all featured in "Knocking," also survive him. In the documentary, father and son were simultaneously operated on in a live-donor transplant as Ralph donated half of his own liver. Seth's wife Nina appeared in "Knocking" as his girlfriend. They were married in 2006, several months before the national PBS broadcast.
Seth's sister is Jehovah's Witness minister in Bulgaria with her husband Mike. They returned to Dallas a week before Seth's death February 14.
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We encourage you to send messages expressing your appreciation that Seth shared his story and how it touched your life. These will be valuable messages for Seth Jr. when he is old enough to read and understand them. Through your messages, Seth Jr. will learn what his father did and how his father's actions moved many people around the world. Seth's story continues as "Knocking" was recently translated into Russian and Korean.