This is a viewpoint on the blood doctrine I hadn't considered, good research and solid reasoning, this will be very helpful if it come up with discussions with my family.
My feeling is that they originally were fearful of blood transfusions out of ignorance and used the bible as an excuse to justify those fears, what the bible actually allowed was secondary. No doubt they would like to move away from it, but can't because it would raise too many questions about the many people who threw their life away by blindly following the Watchtower's doctrine. I wonder how many more will die because they refuse they admit they were wrong? I was at the market the other day and saw someone in front of me with a no blood card in her wallet, it made me sad.