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Ricardo_Gomez
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Does any body know how many JW have die due to their doctrine on blood transfusion?
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crobynb
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I do not know how many altogether.
But I do know one . . . cousin and friend, 20 years old - had a motorcycle wreck. Was okay except for a broken leg that had bled too much before getting to the hospital. Doctors said blood was required - he and his parents refused. So he did not make it. This was their second child they had lost to a car wreck. We all thought after their oldest daughter died that they would do anything to keep their remaining children healthy and whole. Nope.
So hard to think that he would still be here if they would have just said yes. To me it feels like a waste of life. It is a gift from God that he made our bodies able to share blood, organs, plasma, etc. They willingly turned away that gift.
But I do know one . . . cousin and friend, 20 years old - had a motorcycle wreck. Was okay except for a broken leg that had bled too much before getting to the hospital. Doctors said blood was required - he and his parents refused. So he did not make it. This was their second child they had lost to a car wreck. We all thought after their oldest daughter died that they would do anything to keep their remaining children healthy and whole. Nope.
So hard to think that he would still be here if they would have just said yes. To me it feels like a waste of life. It is a gift from God that he made our bodies able to share blood, organs, plasma, etc. They willingly turned away that gift.
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carol_marie
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I do not know the answer to that question - if you asked it of a JW they would probably respond with, “How many people have died getting blood - like from AIDS?” That’s what I was trained to say.
What’s interesting about the whole blood thing is that JW’s were also forbidden to receive organ transplants… that is until the wife of one of the governing body needed an organ transplatnt -(can’t recall specifically what it was?) Anyhow, just in time for the surgery, the the governing body decided that Jehovah was OK with organ transplants. Lucky for her, huh?
What’s interesting about the whole blood thing is that JW’s were also forbidden to receive organ transplants… that is until the wife of one of the governing body needed an organ transplatnt -(can’t recall specifically what it was?) Anyhow, just in time for the surgery, the the governing body decided that Jehovah was OK with organ transplants. Lucky for her, huh?
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jschwehm
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vegpotter
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This is such a sad thing. I had major surgery last year and my aunt (a JW) sent me info about blood transfusions. I read through it and had a question. Why don’t JWs keep kosher? That’s pretty much what I got out of the literature, it talked about not eating blood and had all these Old Testament quotes. I never understood how it related to blood transfusions. I did up needing transfusions–I got 7 pints all together. I’d do it again in a second. It seems very wasteful to me, too, why anyone would die when such a simple thing could save them?
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catsrus
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25 years ago, when I “studied” with them, they never discussed anyone dying from transfusions, unless it was a person who wasn’t a jw and received AIDS infected blood. “All” the jws were restored through prayer to jehovah for refusing to accept (eat) blood. 
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Catholic_Diva
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Well my JW friend was in hospital recently (and of course nearly is whole flippin congregation came to visit him, never sparing a thought that he might be very weak and need his rest instead of trying to entertain people he hardly knows).
He was going in to have keyhole surgery so the whole issue came up and his JW friend brought in some leaflets that he has designed for JWs not yet baptised which lays out their requests in legal terms. Then his JW mentor was in and we got talking about an elderly man in their congregation who suffers from severe breathing problems etc and is now said to need a lung transplant. My friend was surprised and asked her why they were allowed transplants. She replied that “it is a matter of personal choice” as “some might not feel comfortable with the thought of having someone else’s organs inside them”.
Now I know for sure that this must have come as quite a shock for my friend since he had already told me ages back that they they believed that if you were meant to die, then you were just playing God by staying alive by taking someone else’s blood, so he must be wondering how staying alive by taking their organs is somehow different! Again we see even more holes, the JW teachings have more holes than a fishing net!!! But they can’t see the wood for the trees :banghead:
He was going in to have keyhole surgery so the whole issue came up and his JW friend brought in some leaflets that he has designed for JWs not yet baptised which lays out their requests in legal terms. Then his JW mentor was in and we got talking about an elderly man in their congregation who suffers from severe breathing problems etc and is now said to need a lung transplant. My friend was surprised and asked her why they were allowed transplants. She replied that “it is a matter of personal choice” as “some might not feel comfortable with the thought of having someone else’s organs inside them”.
Now I know for sure that this must have come as quite a shock for my friend since he had already told me ages back that they they believed that if you were meant to die, then you were just playing God by staying alive by taking someone else’s blood, so he must be wondering how staying alive by taking their organs is somehow different! Again we see even more holes, the JW teachings have more holes than a fishing net!!! But they can’t see the wood for the trees :banghead:
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catsrus
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They changed their no eating of blood dictate awhile back due to “new light”.
I wonder how the loved ones of those who died due to the blood ban now feel.
I wonder how the loved ones of those who died due to the blood ban now feel.
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