Name of Victim: Dempsey Tarver
Age of Victim: 78
Sex of Victim: Female
What Is This Testimony About: Other Institutional Betrayal
State: TX
Name of Hospital(s), Nursing Home(s), Hospice, or other facilities victim was admitted to (List all that Apply): Texas Health, Aleve Care Hospice
Did the victim survive? Yes
Date of discharge from hospital? 03/26/2025
Contact Name: Christian Noyes
Relationship to Victim: Daughter
Was the victim a military Veteran? No
Was the victim considered special needs, or did they have any kind of disability? No
Was the victim admitted to the hospital? Yes
County Hospital is located in: Tarrant
Date Admitted: 03/25/2024
Was the victim isolated at any time during hospitalization? No
Does the victim or family feel they were treated differently by hospital staff as a result of disclosing their vaccination status? No
Was the victim or family pressured to sign a Do Not Resuscitate? Yes
Was the victim physically restrained? No
Was the victim deprived of food and water while in the hospital? Yes
Was victim placed on a ventilator? No
What medications were administered to the victim by doctors or hospital staff? Antibiotics, Diuretics, Pain Killers, Sedatives, Tramadol
What medications did the hospital explicitly refuse to administer to the victim? None
Has this incident been reported to any agency such as VAERS, HHS, JACHO, CMS, Medical Board or others? No
Would you be interested in participating in podcasts or other media? Yes
Marked for Death: How a Daughter Rescued Her Mother from Hospice
When Dempsey Tarver entered the hospital in March of 2024, she was 78 years old — a woman who had lived a full life, not a woman at death’s door. What followed was not simply a medical episode. It was a battle for her life — one her daughter, Christian Noyes, would have to fight against the very institutions that were supposed to provide care.
Dempsey was admitted to Texas Health in Tarrant County. Almost immediately, Christian began to sense that something wasn’t right. Instead of careful, restorative treatment, there was a subtle but unmistakable shift toward decline. Conversations began to center around “comfort,” “quality of life,” and the quiet suggestion that perhaps it was simply time to let nature take its course.
Then came the pressure.
Christian was pushed to sign a Do Not Resuscitate order. The tone wasn’t collaborative — it was persuasive. The message was clear: this is what you should do. This is what responsible families do. But Christian wasn’t ready to surrender her mother to a decision that felt premature and wrong. She knew her mother. She knew her strength. And she knew that something deeper was happening behind the sterile language of policy and procedure.
What troubled her most was the basic care — or lack thereof. Her mother was deprived of adequate food and water. Instead of nourishment and hydration to support healing, there was withholding. Instead of strengthening, there was sedation. Dempsey was administered antibiotics, diuretics, pain medications, sedatives, and Tramadol — drugs that can dull the body and mind. Meanwhile, the emphasis increasingly shifted toward hospice.
Aleve Care Hospice entered the picture, and the trajectory became even more alarming. Hospice, which should be reserved for those truly at the end of life, seemed to be introduced as the default pathway rather than a last resort. Christian watched as the system subtly reclassified her mother from patient to inevitability — from someone who could recover to someone expected to decline.
But Christian refused to accept that narrative.
She advocated relentlessly. She asked questions. She resisted pressure. She refused to sign away her mother’s chance at life simply because it was easier for the institution to move in that direction. She recognized the familiar pattern so many families have described — early pushes toward DNR orders, the withholding of basic sustenance, the heavy use of sedatives, and the quiet funneling of patients into hospice whether or not they were truly dying.
This was not compassionate care. It was institutional momentum.
Christian stood in the gap.
Because she did, her mother survived.
Dempsey was discharged in March of 2025 — alive. Not because the system carried her through, but because her daughter refused to let it swallow her. Christian’s vigilance interrupted what could have been another silent hospice death, another family told it was simply “her time.”
Her story is a rare one — not because institutional betrayal in hospice settings is rare, but because survival after resisting it is. Too many families feel intimidated, exhausted, or unprepared to challenge doctors and administrators. Too many are made to feel unreasonable for wanting hydration, nutrition, or continued treatment. Too many sign forms under emotional pressure, not fully understanding the consequences.
Christian’s story exposes a broader crisis — one that did not begin with COVID and did not end there. The normalization of premature end-of-life pathways, the erosion of informed consent, and the quiet coercion of families into irreversible decisions are egregious violations of trust. These are not isolated misunderstandings. They represent systemic failures that rise to the level of crimes against humanity when vulnerable patients are deprived of care under the guise of compassion.
Betrayal Project USA exists to ensure stories like Dempsey’s are not buried.
We are a victim-led organization comprised largely of widows, widowers, survivors, and family members who experienced similar institutional harm. We document these testimonies to preserve the truth, pursue reform, and demand accountability. We are building a national community of support so that no family has to fight alone and no life is quietly written off without challenge.
Christian Noyes saved her mother because she refused to comply with a system that seemed determined to move her toward death.
If you or a loved one has been harmed by COVID-related protocols, hospice coercion, medical mandates, or other forms of institutional betrayal, we urge you to document your story at betrayalprojectusa.org.
These injustices must be exposed. These egregious crimes against humanity must be stopped. And together — by telling the truth — we will ensure they are never repeated.
