... but you can't make him get blood transfusions if he's really against it.
bad, bad, awful analogy. i know. what to say when confronted with the absurd?
according to this CNN story, a 14-year-old jehovah's witness boy in seattle with leukemia refused to get the blood transfusions necessary to save his life, and passed away last night. his doctors said if he had gotten the transfusions he would have had a 70% likelihood of survival.
i will rant another day. i will yell and go off on tangents and be angry at religion and make more insipid analogies. i will.
but today i'll just be sad.
so it goes.
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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.
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.
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.
Danny Haszard
danny, thank you for explaining the JW blood transfusion ban better to me, i appreciate it. :) of course, it still seems ridiculous to me, but many religious practices do (circumcision, head coverings [most of sharia law], birth control, just to name a few of hundreds). i do hope in time the JWs will modify their perspective to allow for lives to be saved. i hope.
out of curiosity, how did you come across my blog post? :)
thank you, again, for sharing.
s.
Uh-oh, Sylvia...now you've started some trouble.
For what it's worth, I think it's sad too. I'm not sure a 14-year-old is capable of making that decision for himself, though his parents would have chosen the same thing. I just can't imagine making that choice. But then, again, I'm a heathen, so whatever. Give me medical intervention, any day.
i feel like i'm learning so much about JWs thanks to this comments page!! i'm so glad so many people are posting and teaching me about this religion.
jen/heathen/super-mom: i've come to the conclusion that a 14-year-old should not be allowed to decide if he wants blood transfusions or not. the courts ruled poorly in this instance, because i don't think a minor's religious beliefs should be considered so sacrosanct. just my two cents ...
It seems to me the kid knew what he was getting into...it surprises me that anyone would let that happen to themselves, though. Making a conscious decision to kill yourself at 14...wow.
yes, ross, it makes me wonder if his religion hadn't induced some kind of martyr complex ... dying for his beliefs? that's still so sad. :(
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