Quebec coroner investigating death of another Jehovah's Witness after childbirth

by OrphanCrow 4 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  OrphanCrow

  Quebec coroner investigating death of another Jehovah's Witness after childbirth

  By Stephen Smith, CBC News Posted: Oct 26, 2016 6:39 PM ET
  

  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-coroner-investigates-death-of-another-jehovahs-witness-1.3822768

  Mirlande Cadet, 46, died of suspected hemorrhage day after giving birth by C-section
  A Quebec coroner is investigating the death of a 46-year-old Jehovah's Witness who died Oct. 3 from complications shortly after giving birth by caesarian section in a Montreal hospital.
  A spokeswoman for the coroner's office, Geneviève Guilbault, confirmed that the bureau was launching an investigation into Cadet's death in an email to CBC Montreal.
  "Based on information that's been circulating … and other information we received from the hospital, it's been decided that a coroner will investigate the death of Mrs. Cadet," Guilbault wrote.
  The inquest is the second coroner's investigation this month into the death of a Jehovah's Witness following childbirth in Quebec.

  Read full story at link
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  prologos

  Will be good to have all the details published so we all can learn. The obitiary by the funeral parlor, magnuspoirier.com lists 6 children as left behinds instead of the 2 elsewhere.
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  OrphanCrow

  Notice this part at the end of the story:

  The committees are composed of Jehovah's Witness elders who are dispatched to a hospital when a member is facing a blood transfusion decision.
  According to the faith group, their role is to advocate for bloodless medical procedures and ensure their members' wishes are respected.

  I think a critical question to answer will be whether the advocacy for bloodless medical procedures is the reason for the HLC's involvement and if those concerns were primary in the HLC's actions. If the HLC were ensuring that the blood refusal was carried out for the reason of promoting alternative procedures, that should raise a huge red flag.

  It seems to me that the HLC are walking an ethical tightrope. Whose interests are they really looking out for? The patient's? Or the interests of the bloodless industry that require the JW patients for clinical trials and experimental procedures?
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  Vidiot

  @ OrphanCrow...

  In all my time as an active JW, it never once occurred to me that the "bloodless" medical-tech industry might be something that the Org may being quietly profiting from.
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  OrphanCrow

  Vidiot: In all my time as an active JW, it never once occurred to me that the "bloodless" medical-tech industry might be something that the Org may being quietly profiting from.

  Vidiot, I still remember exactly the moment that thought crystallized for me. It horrified and shocked me but at the same time it made total and complete sense.

  Everything that I have turned up since that time indicates that the no blood doctrine is a phobia, not a religious belief. And that that phobia against using other people's blood is a profitable position that the Watchtower Society has exploited through their alliances with the bloodless industry.

  The Watchtower goes on and on about all the money that is needed for the "worldwide work".

  But...the questions that need to be asked and answered:

  How much money has the org spent on promoting bloodless technology?

  Is the Hospital Information Services part of their "worldwide work"?

  Is advocating for and promoting bloodless medicine a religious activity?

  And, how is the Hospital Information Services financed? Does that money come from the charitable donations the Watchtower receives?

  Who are the largest contributors to the WTS? Do they have interests in keeping the blood doctrine alive...or massaging the blood doctrine to serve the needs of the bloodless industry?

  Why has the WTS change their position on using processed blood at exactly the same times that the bloodless industry needed subjects to trial their products on?

  Why has the HLC made arrangements for procedures to be used on JW patients and then later...those procedures/products were stopped over safety concerns? Why does the WTS go on and on about the dangers of blood transfusions but NEVER says anything about the dangers that they have exposed the JWs to through experimental bloodless procedures?