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TRAGIC: Garnet Harper, a 35-year-old father of five from Ontario, was refused a life-saving kidney transplant solely because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19. Two of his brothers stepped forward offering to donate a kidney, yet no hospital would proceed with the surgery. Harper passed away on May 22, 2023, leaving behind his wife of 12 years and their five young children. While he lay dying in the hospital, staff approached his wife and asked if they could harvest his organs after his death. The same system that judged him unworthy of receiving a transplant while alive suddenly viewed him as a suitable organ donor the moment he died. How can a living man be denied a kidney because of his vaccine status, yet have his body treated as a resource the second he is gone? This remains one of the most painful examples of how vaccine mandates overrode basic medical ethics and human compassion.