G'day Mary,
It's easy to say, but I DO understand. You see, I lost my father in a similar situation just a year or two ago.
I remember him cheerily entering surgery and then being with him on life support before the decision was made to turn it off and let him go.
All of that was unnecessary - a 'simple' blood transfusion would have saved him.
Still, his request, like so many other dubs, was to refuse blood transfusions and so he died.
Am I angry? No. Surprisingly perhaps i have no feeling of anger at all - I can refer to his passing with an acknowledgment of his untimely passing being unnecessary but i can truthfully say that I have never been angry towards the WTS cult at all over his death.
You might find this strange, especially since you probably know that leaving the Borg and becoming christians cost us (Mrs Ozzie and I) everything. Still, I realise that Dad had led a very good life, he was elderly, and he went the way he chose to.
Isn't that what any of us would want?
So, Mary, I know for now you may be angry, or frustrated at the futility of his plight, but comfort yourself with knowing that he was doing what he had decided.
We all will go at some time, and we all make choices. He made his apparently.
Still we are sad, but isn't that part of our life experience?
My sympathies to you in all that you're going through. It shouldn't be necessary - bloody cult, undeed!
Ozzie
