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Friday, August 7, 2026 · Life & Family

HE WEPT ON THE TABLE AS THEY PREPPED TO HARVEST...

Sister Donna Rhorer: her brother TJ was crying on the operating table, eyes tracking her, as doctors prepped to harvest his organs after a false brain-death declaration. Staff called it “reflexes.” During the heart cath he was thrashing, crying, grabbing doctors’ hands to make them stop. He lived — and sat in the audience weeping as she told it. Same week: RFK Jr.’s HHS decertifies Network for Hope (KY/OH/WV/IN) after investigators found organ-recovery processes started on patients still showing signs of life. Monty Python already wrote the script. Watch both.

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