DENVER, October 14, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Denver coroner is charging that a man whose organs were removed for the purposes of donation was killed by doctors before being clinically dead. The coroner has recorded the death as a homicide.
Montrose County Coroner Mark Young told the Associated Press that William Rardin, a 31 year-old man who shot himself in the head, was killed by the “removal of his internal organs by an organ-recovery team.” Young said the two hospitals that removed Rardin’s organs did not follow “acceptable medical standards” to determine that the man was indeed dead. Doctors transplanted Rardin’s heart, liver, pancreas, and two kidneys into waiting recipients.
Young charges that the tests each hospital used left a question as to whether Rardin was indeed dead. Read local coverage: https://www.showmenews.com/2004/Oct/20041005News023.asp tv