jehovahs witness refuses to let husband have life-saving blood transfusionby lucy cockcroft last updated: 6:42 am bst 06/06/2008 the wife of a man who is critically ill in hospital has refused to let doctors give him a life-saving blood transfusion because he is a jehovahs witness.john edwards, 57, suffered severe injuries when a motorist suspected of drink-driving knocked him over and medics have warned he could only have days to live if he does not have the transfusion.. but his wife sheila said he has signed a form banning any blood transfusions in the event of an accident or illness, because their religion forbids it.. it is believed she is rejecting repeated pleas from doctors hoping to change her mind.. the couple's sons, jonathan, 36 and tom, 29, do not share their beliefs and it was unclear last night whether they supported their mother's decision.. a family source said: "sheila is adamant that john must not have blood.
she says giving him a transfusion would be like assaulting him, and he wouldn't want to live knowing he had disobeyed his god.. "she is in a terrible state, constantly in tears at his bedside, but won't give in to requests from anyone.
her sons are both with her but her position hasnt budged.".
"The couple's sons, Jonathan, 36 and Tom, 29, do not share their beliefs and it was unclear last night whether they supported their mother's decision."
I wonder if the sons will try to fight this?
The logic is so convoluted... A transfusion is like assualt? "Hey, don't assualt me!... just let me die instead."
Your wish is granted:
yesterday i took all my keys off my ibm model m keyboard and cleaned them and vacuumed the surface to get some dust out of the inside and now it looks like new.
i need to do the same to the one i use at work.
i got another model m keyboard off ebay yesterday.
I like plain, flat, "no frills" keyboards. I could never get used to the ergonomic types.
The one I am using now is wireless. It's nice, but not necessary.
a wile back someone posted on how to survive the dc.
i any one rembers it could you post the link.
if not does anyone have any idears on how to.
It's simple: Just don't go.
follow the discussion on these videos, interesting examples of jw-think (click on the links below):.
watchtower comments - valueless propaganda.
watchtower comments - be guided.
Good point.
It's better to stay away from Youtube and let the public think you are in a crazy mind control cult, than to post comments on a video and confirm that you are in a crazy mind control cult.
Yeah... Some may not even have a high school education, but they are all "experts" on C14 dating methods.
that a surpreme being is gonna help us?.
on another thread that i started i asked what is wrong with the new age ideas.
some people seem so afraid of it.. one poster mentioned that new age stuff is incorrect because jesus is for sure gonna come take us away from this world.. now i am opened minded.
Most people are affraid to face the fact that we are alone.
Nobody is coming to "save" us... we have to take care of ourselves.
reading about the passing of wings' mom got me to thinking.
my mother has shunned me completely for the past 20 years with the exception of three conversations about health history.
if i outlive my mom, the probability is great that she will die without me ever seeing or talking to her in any kind of meaningful way.
This really upsets me. I feel really bad for everyone who had (or will have) to deal with it.
I do have a question for anyone who experiences such severe shunning: Have you tried just confronting the relative and saying: "You cannot shun me"... ?
Don't let them get by with this. Is it possible to wake them up from their WTS induced sleepwalking?
what color should i use for the trim on my cloak?
an emperor needs a fancy cloak.
i decided on purple, thanks to a suggestion from another poster.
Aren't you entitled to a 10% discount now?
1993 the atf storm the waco compound and david koresh and 82 followers burned to death.
to them the attack was the begining of armagedon, and the furfillment of prophecy.
the more the atf pushed, the more they thought they were god's people, who were being persecuted, and pushed into the apocalypse.
They spin everything...
good things happen = Jehovah is blessing the bOrg... the end is near.
bad things happen = Satan is persecuting them... the end is near.
Also, they still have the Great tribulation card to play, with a very nebulous time frame. Even if something catastrophic happened at headquarters, it would be portrayed as the "begining of the Great Tribulation". And they could milk that for many years.
