If you think about it, the Witnesses had to bend to this thinking in order to get new recruits. Could you image if they really said what their beliefs were, and told an older woman who just lost her husband, that even though she will come into the religion and live forever, you will never see your husband again. I know from personal experience with grandparents, that many older woman would rather die, then never see their loved husband again. I am using the example of the woman, as most woman outlive their husbands.