Here's another scenario for eggnog to contemplate: A family member is diagnosed with a horrifying form of leukemia called Myelodysplasia and he's in the advanced stages of it. Basically, his bone marrow has been completely destroyed by his being exposed to various toxic chemicals over the years, most notably, benzene. With the bone marrow unable to make new blood, and with his present blood count being composed of immature cells, his counts are way too low. His red count is at 80, his white count and platelets drop to 1/10th of what they should be and nothing but a stem cell/bone marrow transplant will be able to save his life.
In order for this to work though, his present bone marrow has to be destroyed by chemotherapy and then at the right time, the matched stem cells from a donor (in this case, his sister) are given to him which will regenerate into normal bone marrow which will start producing normal cells again. In order for him to survive the chemo treatment, he's going to need multiple blood transfusions to keep him alive until the treatment has been administered.
Unfortunately, this man is a Jehovah's Witness and he's been taught his entire life that God would rather see him dead rather than accept blood from another human being, even though no one was slaughtered or killed in order to obtain the needed blood. If he accepts a blood transfusion to try and save his life, he will be murdered by God at Armageddon and will never get a resurrection---his eternal salvation is in jeapordy. Not only that but if he takes the transfusion, he'll be completely shunned by fellow family members and life long friends---in fact, everyone he loves will look through him as though he does not exist. This man has been forced into a horrifying situation: Either accept the required transfusions now and be able to continue to live, or refuse and come face to face with his own mortality. Coming face to face with your own mortality is easier said than done and only those who have had to do it, can fully understand what it's like to know you could be dead within a few months.
The man decides (against the Oncologists' advice) to forego the transfusions as he doesn't want to disobey Jehovah. He begins to find it difficult to breath as his lungs aren't getting enough oxygen and he's running on half a tank. He starts sleeping alot more, some times 12 or 13 hours. He turns white and cannot be around other people because he might catch something from them and since he has virtually no white cells left, his body cannot fight off even the simplest of viruses.
One night he goes into convulsions and is raced to the hospital. They're not the most competent bunch and thinking he has an infection in his lungs, they pump him full of a bag of very unstable antibiotics that have not been diluted properly. Normally this would not cause that much of a problem in a healthy person, but in this case, it goes straight to the weakest point in his body: his lungs. He's gone so long without adequate oxygen that the cells in his lungs are beginning to die and they become inflamed and show up completely white on an X-ray. Even without the antibiotics being adminstered, he's in serious trouble. In a nutshell, he's slowly suffocating to death due to lack of oxygen and will most likely have a heart attack within another month or two. However, with the unstable and undiluted antibiotics being administered, it goes directly to his lungs and slowly burns them. He's put into a coma and put on life support. Over the next 30 days, the mis-administered drug finishes him off and liquifies his lungs. He never regains conscienceness and dies with his broken hearted wife at his side and never really recovers from it. His elderly parents do what no parent should ever have to do: they bury their own child.
This has happened because the cult he belongs to, likes to play God with peoples lives. Rather than admit that they have been wrong for the last 50 years in their bizarre interpretation of dietary laws written for another group of people thousands of years ago, they instead stubbornly try to insist that they are right and the rest of the world is wrong. They teach that a loving God would rather see the above-scenario play out rather than let someone try to save their own life by accepting a blood transfusion from a willing donor because it's just so 'risky' to accept a blood transfusion and there are 'other things that can be used'.
djeggnog, your blind devotion to an outdated man-made law and lack of understanding of human nature is pathetic and nauseating to anyone who reads your bullshit tripe. If the Governing Body said tomorrow that it was okay to accept transfusions, you'd suddenly get anmesia over all the crap you've spewed on the subject and fully back them in anything they said on the matter. In other words, you're not interested in 'truth', you're only interested in being a 'yes man' to a bunch of senile old thugs who wouldn't glance in your direction or give you the time of day if you needed it.
...OUTLAW
