I'm not surprised that the JWs would proscribe the transfusion, but it seems out of character for them to allow the surgery. In any case, she was pretty advanced in years, and not in good health, so if she decided to call it quits,...eh!

I remember in HS, one of the JWs touting the use of a blood substitute that one of "their" docs created. And, yes, 50 years on, it does exist, EXCEPT.... it can only be used in small amounts and lasts just one day. From what I read, it's pretty useless except in a few scenarios like on a battlefield before shipping the bleeder to where real blood is plentiful.

What could be more evil than a religion stealing your love of life?

The irony is they drink wine representing his blood and wafers representing his body. So how is that reconciled by these fknuts?
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That religion killed Prince as well.

He wouldn't get the hip replacement surgery he needed because it would have required blood transfusion and he instead stayed on the pain meds.

This particular tragedy is exclusive to the JW's. They believe that the bible says you are not supposed to eat blood and that is what they claim getting a transfusion is. You are "eating blood." Like all of the antivaxxer crap posted in here the JW's will come up with a zillion things that can happen to you if you get a transfusion.

keeps on happening. Over and over again.