Breaking the Silence: Part II
A family member remembers a phone conversation that they had with Donald two
days before he passed away. Donald said that Gary had told him that he was
improving every day and that within a week he could go home. He was so excited
because he was home sick and wanted to see his family. Donald also said that when they had weighed him that morning, his weight was
115lbs, oneyear earlier it was 158lbs which was normal for a man of
5’11". His death certificate read: congestive heart failure, prostrate
cancer; 1986. A year later in 1987, several of Gary’s family members went to visit him.
He took them to the same clinic to have a look around. He was allowed into only
certain rooms and the people there didn’t acknowledge his existence. He was
not treated any better than a janitor. He withdrew some blood from the arm of his little sister and showed how the
machine for reading blood worked. Gary told her he could read blood and tried to
convince her that if she didn't go on a lemonade diet and a fast she would have
full-blown cancer in three years and would be dead in five years because she was
stage one of cancer. This terrified her as her dad died one year earlier of cancer and she had
just found out she was pregnant and she became deeply depressed. Upon returning home, she went to see her own doctor and was told that what
Gary told her was a farce, that she was not ill other than being pregnant. Today in 2002, she is still healthy and has gone on to have 6 children; she
never has had any signs of cancer. In 1988 Gary convinced another sister and her family to come to Sparks
Nevada, where he had moved to forestall lawful prosecution and was selling his
wife's vitamin/herbal formulas. He had set up a company and called it Young
Life. On the label he had behind his name MD. He asked if the family members were interested in becoming his staff for the
new company and to help make money. The family asked him one more time to come
clean about posing as a Doctor. He said that he was a doctor but could not
practice because he was not licensed. His family looked at the little company and the lack of integrity that was
the driving force and turned down the opportunity. In 1989 Gary moved his company to Spokane WA, again to forestall lawful
prosecution, for the several arrests for smuggling He would also make
appearances as Doctor Young . He was arrested in Seattle for drawing blood and diagnosing with out a
license. He had asked his mother to bail him out so many times, that she was
forced to ask another member of the family to help her. After he returned to Spokane he changed the company name to Young Living, and
had one of his sisters do the odd work for him and his conventions.