Hi Everyone,
Since I am one of those unfortunate parents who had a child die in part as a result from refusing blood transfusions to save his life. My son might have died anyway, we will never know. My son refused blood after the auto accident on the way to the hospital. Then my son's Dad once again refused blood for our son. They warned us he would have no chance at all if we didn't give him blood. He lived 3 1/2 hrs is all.
I realize how everyone here is shocked how this can happen how can a parent who loves their child better than their own life let that child die when blood can save them perhaps. I ask this of myself.
I can only tell you I was throughly decieved by the Watchtower Society up until that day. I believed ours and our childrens everlasting lives depended on refusing blood even in life threatening situations. I completely believed the WTS. It was after our son died I found AJWRB.ORG, and learned that the WTS had been misleading all those of us that are JW. Well it lead me on a path that took me out of the witnesses. I now work with AJWRB.ORG to educate other witnesses, and help ex-witnesses, and to educate the general public about the blood policy of the JW's.
No parent wants to let their child die, they believed that Jehovah demanded it. The lies the WTS has told people make the Governing Body the ones responsible for the unnessarily death of these children and adults. JW's let their beloved family die because they have been told that this is what is required of them to have everlasting life. If they knew God did not requires this they would not do it.
Sincerely,
Mary from AJWRB.ORG aka Balsam