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Re: Don't Get Too Close....
Isn't it Jehovah's Witnesses who don't permit blood transfusions? I don't know if the same applies to Christian Scientists. Don't know much about them. I do know that it's very important to the JWs and they would rather die than accept a blood transfusion which according to their beliefs would damn them for eternity. Given their belief I can see where they are coming from in refusing the treatment and although I would want my own children to have blood transfusions when necessary (as indeed one has) I don't think I could put anyone through the trauma of believing they had condemned their child to eternal hell by forcing a transfusion upon them. It's a difficult situation and just shows what different perspectives we view things from. I know a JW family who lost the mother due to their non acceptance of blood transfusions and I felt so sorry for those children at the time but they believe they'll be reunited with her in Heaven. If she'd had a transfusion their beleif would have been that they would never see her again after death and that means far more to them.
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