This is exactly what I have been "screaming" about in a danish web-page. The childreen who died, because of their JW-parents dicission, not to give them blood, did'nt never get the chance to choose for them selfes. Maybe they wanted to be an atteist or catholic or something else, when they grew up.
It's so unfair, that they never got that choice.
There are nothing good at all, being a child of JW. Sitting still for hours at the Kingdom hall, be different at school, no hollidays celebrating, and so can we go on.
Lets get that tower closed.
I get so angry, when I think of this. When I was a litle girl, I suffered a lot, because I could not go to birthdays partys. So much that I stole money from my mother, so I could give a present, and lied to both my parents so I could go there and celebrate the party. I told them that we only were going to play.
Many childreen suffers in the same way. No joy. I remember that there was a time, where you could celebrate you baptism, and recieve presents, but that was also forbidden. Because you must not feel proud of you self, only humaliation. Like a litle grey mouse.
And I think, that celebrating a birthday only is a tribute to God, because he is the reason that you were born. When you celebrate birthday, you show God how gratefull you are for live. And I as a mother, shows how gratefull I am for my childreen.
JW has closed every dor to joy and happyness, for the childreen, the youth, and the grown ups.
Lets all do what we can, to open those dors again.
Manjana