Some time ago [https://alternative-doctor.com/harvesting-patients-for-donor-organs/] I wrote a story about organ procurement companies being rather hasty about getting people taken off life support machines, so that they (the company) could “harvest” the deceased’s organs for transplants and huge profits.
Trouble is, they grew rather impatient with the concept of deceased. People were being prepped for removal of essential organs, when the patient started showing signs of still being alive; of waking up even! This rather inconvenient occurrence led to organ transfer companies (yes, there are such entities) insisting that life support was removed anyway—in other words killing a reviving patient, so as to get on with the job.
They don’t want anyone to be alive, to recover. No joy or delight at life’s immeasurable resilience and determination. THEY JUST WANT THE MONEY. The profits. Obscene profits…
And you know what? A lot of these killing factories masquerade under the banner of “non-profit”. It’s a joke and I’m astonished that the federal government doesn’t look seriously into these scams (for so they are).
Here’s yet another example of attempted murder, in this week’s medical news…
A federal investigation found a Kentucky nonprofit pushed hospital workers toward surgery despite signs of revival in patients.
Four years ago, an unconscious Kentucky man—Anthony Thomas Hoover II—began to awaken as he was about to be removed from life support so his organs could be donated. Even though the man cried, pulled his legs to his chest and shook his head, officials representing Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates still tried to move forward.
They wanted him dead!
Anthony Thomas Hoover II by his sister Donna Rhorer
Now, a federal investigation has found that officials at Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, a “nonprofit” in charge of coordinating organ donations in Kentucky, ignored signs of growing alertness not only in this case but also with dozens of other potential donors.
The investigation examined about 350 cases in Kentucky over the past four years in which plans to remove organs were ultimately canceled. It found that in 73 instances, officials should have considered stopping sooner because the patients had high or improving levels of consciousness, but they tried to bulldoze it through’ tried to get the patients killed, so they could reap their profits. What actual contempt for human life.
Mercifully, the surgeries didn’t actually happen, but multiple patients showed signs of pain or distress while being readied for the procedure. Yet the organizers refused to quit. Instead they put hospital staff under intolerable pressure to generate real death, so they could get on with their grizzly “harvesting” procedure!
Some staff workers started muttering that this was euthanasia.
The federal investigation criticized Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates, which was coordinating donations in the state. Now called Network for Hope after a merger, it has said it always follows the rules and never removes organs until a hospital has declared a patient dead.
But this was clearly just a bald-faced lie. In fact the organization’s employees repeatedly pressured families to authorize donation, improperly took over cases from doctors and tried to push hospital staff to remove life support and allow for surgery, even if there were indications of growing awareness in patients.
At times it was not properly recognized by staff that hospital sedatives or illegal drugs could mask patients’ neurological condition, meaning they might be in better shape than they seemed. That didn’t deter the predators.
In December 2022, a 50-year-old overdose victim began stirring less than an hour after being taken off life support and started looking around. Yet the organ retrieval attempt was not immediately ended, nor was the patient given any explanation.
“The patient had no idea what was going on but was becoming more aware by the minute,” hospital records noted.
After 40 more minutes — when the patient’s organs would no longer qualify for donation — the attempt was called off, and he was moved to an intensive care unit. He later sat up and spoke with his family before dying three days later, the investigation found. Those extra three days are not to be dismissed; they were of great importance to the family, and the victim.
Overall, the official investigation flagged 103 cases as having “concerning features” and found problems were more likely to occur at rural hospitals. It noted more than half of transplants arranged by the Kentucky organization were from circulatory-death patients, above the national average.
Nationwide, officials recovered about 20,000 organs from this type of donor last year, nearly double the total in 2021, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which oversees the transplant system.
Federal regulators told the network last week that the Kentucky organization must increase training for staff and conduct neurological assessments on potential organ donors every 12 hours, among other changes.
On Thursday, Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates said it had received a report about the government investigation. “We will fully comply with all of their suggested recommendations,” it said in a statement.
The federal inquiry began last fall after a congressional committee heard testimony about the Kentucky man, Anthony Thomas Hoover II, who had an overdose in 2021. He was unresponsive for two days before his family agreed to donate his organs.
Over the next two days, the procurement organization moved toward surgery even as the patient’s neurological condition improved, the investigation found. During one exam, records show, he was “thrashing on the bed.”
How did they deal with that inconvenient fact? The patient was sedated to prevent further motion!
The hospital staff “was extremely uncomfortable with the amount of reflexes patient is exhibiting,” case notes read. “Hospital staff kept stating that this was euthanasia.” A procurement organization coordinator assured them it was not. But of course he was just lying. It was a very deliberate attempt at euthanasia, to get at the money!
The hospital doctor refused to withdraw life support. Mr. Hoover eventually recovered. Now 36, he has lingering neurological injuries. Network for Hope did not respond to a request for comment on that case.
Smirking Andi Johnson, vice president of marketing and community engagement, Network for Hope
We know from interviews with The New York Times, two former employees of the procurement organization said higher-ups tried to pressure the doctor concerned to continue the retrieval attempt. “If it had not been for that physician, we absolutely 1,000 percent would have moved forward,” said one of them, Natasha Miller, who was in the room. Three other former Kentucky employees said they had seen similar cases.
The Kentucky attorney general’s office also launched an investigation into Mr. Hoover’s case. On Thursday, the office said the review was ongoing. Heads will roll? I doubt it. Call me cynical but I have no faith in the compassion of the US medical “industry.”
Just bear stories like this in mind if you are ever faced with the dilemma of a loved one in a coma and whether to take them off life support and donate their organs. Forget the story you are “Helping someone else to live.” They have their own health karma. You are furthering the cause of exploiting life for financial gain.
Meanwhile, your loved one might wake up and ask what’s going on!
Final Note: Vivien wants me to tell you to be careful when handling official declarations. Take change-of-address forms, for example: they often have a box to tick at the bottom, “Do you want to be an organ donor.” Think twice before ticking it!
Prof. Keith Scott-Mumby
The Alternative Doctor
Principal Source:
- https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/kentucky-organ-donations.html
