looking after dying jw

A Paduan

Part of my job involves palliative care - and tonight I was looking after a dying jw man - awakes, nwt bible and the rest around the room of course. After feeding, washing, consoling, giving drinks, turning etc (you get the picture), I thought 'none of my colleagues are jws or even religious, but they are the ones here. I'll post again tomorrow, he may not be alive I suppose - but I can say that I haven't seen family about, let alone any "brothers/sisters" about to feed or console - I just see a scared and alone person - and thank goodness we're not all jws.

cruzanheart

I'm so sorry he's dying all alone. Would you please tell him from me that I am thinking of him and wish him peace.

Love,

Nina

pr_capone

Include me in cruzanheart's hello A Paduan. I dont know if I could do your job, I would become very attached to someone like that old man. You are doing a very good thing.

Eric

LeslieV

My heart is breaking reading this. You are a great person to be able to do what you do for the dying. My grandmother is in a nursing home has been a JW all her life. Guess who comes to see her? Not any JW's but her apostate granddaughter. Sure is hard to see that love they keep preaching about it makes me sick.

Leslie

mouthy

I hope your a believer Apaduan... Tell him Jesus loves him...Poor soul....I guess your in the right place- you have what God wants to be distributed LOVE!!!! Go girl( being used as hands of GOD)

Moving out the way from the kick if you DONT believe ( lol

neyank

LeslieV says:

"Sure is hard to see that love they keep preaching about"

I'm sure the JWs would like to visit this person but, it might take time aways from selling, distributing placing magazines.

And of course they couldn't go on a meeting night.

After all, it's at the meetings where the JWs are told that they are the most loving of all religions.
Can't you just feel the love?

I guess they could go on a non meeting night but that's when they are suppose to be preparing for the meetings.

I mean it takes time to read the WT and awake mags. devouring all of that spiritual feast.

After all, what's more important?

Reading and studying ever changing information that is in those mags. and at the meetings or caring for your fellow man?

What did Jesus say?

Didn't He stress in the parable about the Good Samaritan that the Scribes and Pharacies were right to pass by the injured man because they were rightous (in their own eyes) and they probably had something better to do?

Oh wait a minute.

He didn't say that, did He?

No. I believe he ridiculed the Scribes and Pharacies for doing that and He showed that it was more important to help and care for your fellow human being than to go to some meeting or whatever.

What is the scripture that says: God wants mercy, not sacrifice.

But of course that doesn't include JWs. Does it?

neyank

BluesBrother

Sad story, after so long spent visiting and "Helping" others , he has no one of his own to comfort him in his time of greatest need . ironic, is'nt it that someone he would call apostate is able to see to him.

Just a thought, Does the congo know about him? It is possible that his circumstances have slipped the bush telegraph? Would the nursing home consider informing a minister of his faith?

A Paduan

I hope the jws on the board get to read this - - still alive - no one today, just us - no doubt it's a known thing he's there - there was a little stuff brought in previously, you know, pjs, wt mags - just no people - who knows - I don't know about calling a jw up though - he's already had an antipsychotic - not sure how it would help.

Looking around his drawers doing stuff, I noticed covers of little wt booklets, lots - and many have the word "you" written in the heading. It occured to me that for years he's been the target of things aimed at personally convincing him of something that he wouldn't have done on his own - not without all that repeated, covering all the angles type of attempted brainwash - and now he wonders - and his breathing is like sobbing and wishing (I'd enjoy seeing the local elders watch that one all day).

And I'm not sure it's right that I would say that Jesus loves him, as he's obviously had that drummed in to him till it drives him mad - but it was a different "Jesus" - he has of that, and is understandably a pensive person - it seems he hasn't believed against hope, but hoped against belief , and belief succumbed - like a knowing that was silenced.

I cannot tell a semi-delerious little dying person what love is in words - he may realise by how he's being cared for, peacefully accepting.

And I don't know about saying this story - I barely understand this story - I see someone who was going to be a man who ran into other people.

Edited by - a paduan on 8 February 2003 4:15:9

Prisca

How sad. I wonder where his family is - or does he even have any family?

I'm glad that he has a caring person to look after him in his last days/hours. You're a good person, A Paduan.

Debz

I remember an occasion that one of the brothers in the cong was dying - and guess what we were all out on field service on arrival back at the brothers wifes house the phone rang with the sad news.......first reaction a prayer, shame we had`nt got to visit him instead of door knocking eh

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