Comments on: Jehovah’s Witness mother dies after refusing blood

By: Myke & Dr. Miriam Rosenthal-English

Myke & Dr. Miriam Rosenthal-English — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:15:31 +0000

Of course you can only assume that your baby did not suffer whilst it died.You can never be sure.You complain that the church did something positive,yet in the past women had to suffer alone and no one said anything.Thank God that some in the Catholic Chucrh are trying to reach out to those parents who are going through suffering and have seen their own babies suffer much as they died.We pray for you and all parents who like us ahve suffered the loss of their babies.

By: Luci

Luci — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:52:28 +0000

Hi Pigeon

Actually I am speechless, and it does not happen often that I am at a loss for words.

I can only assume you have no children, no family, no friends, no pets, no loved ones.

To wish something like cancer on anyone is just beyond me

By: pigeon

pigeon — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:58:11 +0000

bitch deserves to die if it keeps going maybe theyll die out think positive ! hope her kids have cancer

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By: Recovering Catholic

Recovering Catholic — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:45:00 +0000

Danny-
Thank you for your post. I couldn’t understand the reasoning behind her decision, and even though I still don’t (being a mom myself) at least you shed some light on it for me. Do you still practice? Or are you like me and just suffer from guilt because you don’t believe?

By: Danny Haszard

Danny Haszard — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:49:40 +0000

Jehovah’s Witnesses elders will investigate and disfellowship any Jehovah Witness who takes a blood transfusion,to say the issue is a ‘personal conscience matter’ is subterfuge to keep the Watchtower out of lawsuits.

Many Jehovah’s Witnesses men,women and children die every year worldwide due to blood transfusion ban.Rank & file Jehovah’s Witness are indoctrinated to be scared to death of blood.

FYI
1) JW’s DO USE many parts aka ‘fractions’ aka components of blood,so if it’s ‘sacred’ to God why the hypocritical contradiction flip-flop?

2) They USE blood collections that are donated by Red cross and others but don’t donate back,more hypocrisy.

3) The Watchtower promotes and praises bloodless elective surgeries,this is a great advancement indeed.BUT it’s no good to me if I am bleeding to death from a car crash and lose half my blood volume and need EMERGENCY blood transfusion.

Know this,the reason that JW refuse blood is because of their spin on the 3000 year old Biblical old testament,modern medicine will eventually make blood donations and transfusions a thing of the past.When this technology happens it won’t vindicate the Jehovah’s Witnesses and all the deaths that have occured so far.
The Watchtower’s rules against blood transfusions will eventually be abolished (very gradually to reduce wrongful death lawsuit liability) even now most of the blood ‘components’ are allowed.
In 20 years there will be artificial blood and the Red Cross will go on with other noble deeds.

None of these changes will absolve the Watchtower leaders or vindicate their twisted doctrines
Are there dangers from blood?There are over 500 aspirin deaths in USA yearly.
—
Danny Haszard born 1957 3rd generation Jehovah’s Witness

By: rivalarrival

rivalarrival — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:13:14 +0000

Jerry Jones,

Very good comment, thank you!

Looks like Pascal ought to rethink his wager…

By: DeSwiss

DeSwiss — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:33:00 +0000

Everytime I hear of such an instance where someone has refused medical treatment on religious grounds I want to puke.

And yet alternately, I agree that someone should have that same right to refuse medical treatment if they have concluded that the treatment efforts themselves are not worth it to them, as in cases where the “cure” appears as bad as the condition, etc. Or in instances where these medical treatments are only attempts to prolong someone’s’ life at the cost of a significant diminishment in the quality of that life, and the person in question doesn’t accept this as justified.

As the title of one of my most favorite plays and movies asks: “Whose Life Is It Anyway?”

But the idea that JW’s don’t already “eat blood” is ridiculous. What do they think that red stuff is in the steaks and hamburgers they’re eating? If they want to truly avoid eating blood, they’d all become vegetarians.