no one ever let their kids die

by jaffacake 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  rwagoner

  40 year old "Manly Man" sitting here in tears over the loss of so many innocent live, children mostly. How Senseless !
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  BluesBrother

  Some twisted reasoning from the in-house JW publication "Our Kingdom Ministry" , Sept.1992 . I assure you that the position has NOT changed. They may now accept some treatments that contain minor fractions of blood, but the principle is the same

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  km 9/92 p. 3 Safeguarding Your Children From Misuse of Blood ***

  Safeguarding

  Your Children From Misuse of Blood

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  "Look! Sons are an inheritance from Jehovah." (Ps. 127:3) If you have such a precious inheritance from Jehovah, you, as parents, have a happy, although serious, responsibility to train, care for, and protect your children. For example, have you taken every reasonable step to protect your young children from a blood transfusion? How would your children react if faced with the prospects of a transfusion? Have you discussed as a family what you might do to deal effectively with an emergency situation in which a transfusion is threatened?

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  Preparing your family for such situations need not be a cause for anxiety or undue stress. You cannot anticipate and prepare for every eventuality in life, but there are many things you, as parents, can do in advance to protect your children from a transfusion. Neglecting these responsibilities could result in your child being transfused when getting medical care. What can be done?

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  Firm Conviction Important: Serious thought should be given to how firm your own convictions are regarding God?s law on blood. Are you teaching your children to obey Jehovah on this matter, just as you teach them his law on honesty, morality, neutrality, and other aspects of life? Do we really feel as God?s law commanded at Deuteronomy 12:23: "Be firmly resolved not to eat the blood"? Verse 25 adds: "You must not eat it, in order that it may go well with you and your sons after you, because you will do what is right in Jehovah?s eyes." A doctor may claim that blood will ?make things go well? for your sick child, but you must be firmly resolved before any emergency comes up to refuse blood for yourself and your children, valuing your relationship with Jehovah as higher than any alleged extension of life that would involve breaking his divine law. Favor with God now and everlasting life in the future are involved!

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  Yes, Jehovah?s Witnesses are life-oriented. They have no desire to die. They want to live so they can praise Jehovah and do his will. That is one reason why they go to hospitals and take their children there for treatment. They ask physicians to treat them, and when they are told blood is the standard or medically indicated course of treatment, they ask for alternative nonblood medical management. There are many alternatives to blood. Experienced physicians are using them. Such alternative management is not quack medicine but consists of medically sound treatments and procedures that are documented in leading medical journals. Thousands of physicians around the world are cooperating with us in providing good medical care without the use of blood, although it is still a problem at times to locate physicians who will treat Witness children without using blood.
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  adelmaal

  They don't believe they let their children die. It's called twisted logic. They think that because they seek non-blood medical management that means they have done everything they can to save their childrens' lives. They think that if their children die it is because they were not able to be saved. Either way they do not admit that there are times when a blood transfusion can save a child and they believe that it is in obedience to God's will that the child died not because they let the child die. They actually believe that blood transfusions do not help in any way shape or form.

  My poor daughter is still traumatized by the death of her 2 year old little friend at the Kingdom Hall. She died a few years back. My daughter says she had leukemia and the only thing that could have saved her was a blood transfusion but her parents refused so she died. She has tears in her eyes everytime she talks about her. It's sick that my daughter's dad would have her believe that her little friend's parents were justified in letting their child (who wasn't even old enough to decide what her religious beliefs were) die like that without a fight.
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  RunningMan

  As mentioned above, the cover the the May 22, 1984 Watchtower says it all. Every picture on that cover is a child who died over lack of blood. And, these aren't just "apostate lies". The Society freely admits it.
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  AlmostAtheist

  I tried to find something on the Watchtower.org site admitting that JW's still die from lack of transfusions. They certainly do, but it's not something they want to brag about. The closest thing I found was here: http://www.watchtower.org/library/hb/article_06.htm

  The last paragraph says, "Witnesses recognize that, medically, their firmly held conviction appears to add a degree of risk and may complicate their care." The complications mentioned certainly include death. There are several articles in the Awake mag about Witnesses that died over the blood issue.

  Dave