Religion strikes again

@wakeupdeadisgodlike wrote:

It’s all good, one less idiot to come knocking on my door bothering me.

So Sensitive.

They should consider the effect on Doctors, Nurses etc who aren’t Jehovah’s Witnesses. It can’t be easy to know you could have saved someone but your hands were tied.

God forbids eating meat without first draining the blood. Many JWs have needlessly died because the governing body considers blood transfusions to be “eating blood.”

Clearly a transfusion is NOT eating and this has cost this young boy’s life

They should feel their God gave man a brain, and man discovered blood transfusions to save life, which is supposed to be sacrosanct i thought

I had to have a blood transfusion some weeks ago now. And although I am a donor myself and receiving isn’t against my religion either, I have had some…inner turmoil with the situaton. I can’t quite explain on here how I feel, but it’s been wierd. Like I feel contaminated but that is a very strong word but feelings along those lines. I spoke to my brother who I’m very close to about it and he said its probaly because I am the type of person who prefers to help others and not take help, that that maybe the underlying issues I am having. He also suggested I see shrink :lol:
When I was having the transfusion I was also reading everything on the blood bags to see if the persons name or any clues would be on the blood!
So, although I find it very strange JW’s put life/death before blood transfusions, I can now kind of understand if they have been bought up thinking it is wrong as to why they would not contemplate transfusions.