The Media makes a big fuss over JW children not recieving blood transfusion because they're ignorant of the principles involved.

Whoa, whoa....before you get ready to chew my head off, that doesn't reflect my sentiments, but rather is taken from the WT as recorded in the January 8, 1986 Awake article entitled, Blood Case Makes Headlines in Japan.  I gotta kick out of this, the television networks making a big fuss over this!!! Like it's not big thing, so what if the kid died!! He's gonna get resurrected, you know why? Because his parents made the creator proud for being self sacrificing, just like Molech!!!!

I apologize for the formatting issues, I suck at copying and pasting on this forum. Oh well, back to threads about beautiful women I'll never hold hands with.

Damn miz.....   Hell of a comparison and on the heels of the anyal suicide pact part

The watchtowers were freakin nuts back in the 80's.

Oops my bad (in my martin lawerence voice), still nuts today.

Damn media. How dare they emotionalise a story about parents preferring to watch their 10-year-old son die than disobey their faceless religious leaders?

How dare they not recognise that the principle of self-sacrifice sometimes has to be turned on its head so that you're sacrificing someone else's life to show how obedient you are to those faceless religious leaders?

Don't the media realise that those poor parents faced an option worse than death: returning to a Kingdom Hall where everyone would hate them and probably expel them and talk about them for the rest of their lives?

This is emotional prejudice of the worst kind. I'm with the Watchtower Society on this one. I just hope that couple don't ever forget the final look on their little boy's face while they wait ... and wait ... and wait for the resurrection.

the wts has been "freaking  nuts" for much longer than  the 80's.

it may require some sacrifice on occasion for a loyal Christian to stand by the Bible injunction ‘to keep abstaining from blood.

   Translation...Once in a while kids die because of our bizare beliefs but shit happens...oh well...next....

Violia: Yes very true.

The Suzuki family chose resolutely to follow the Bible’s directive in obedience to Almighty God

Actually, it's the Governing Body's directive, based on a nonsensical, illogical contortion of an injunction against eating animal blood, framed 2000 years ago as a temporary measure to ease tensions between newly converted Christians from a Jewish background. All other religions know this. That's why only Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to use blood in medical treatments even when it will save a life.

Saving a life of a child? Now that's the sort of thing that would bring a smile to God's face.

I don't understand this at all. Why did not the government transfer temporary custody to some entity so that a transfusion could be received. I agree that grown adults have a right to determine their bodily integrity and religious belief. A ten year old boy is not competent to make such decisions. Japan seemed civilized. We are not talking about a 17 year old on the threshold of maturity. Adolesence continues into the thirties in industrialized countries. 

I wonder what his favorite toys and games were. His parents murdered him. I did not find it clear but perhaps a blood transfusion would have made no difference. If so, it could have been stated more clearly.

I am full of rage. Children as property, not humans. Something seems very strange with this story.

It might well be that we are not informed of all the facts of the case.

The problem is that this still goes on, at least here in the U.K there is the potential for it to do so, the medical ethics  followed here make allowance for children to make such a decision and it be respected. I do not know of a case lately, I think that usually the doctors seek to make the child a ward of court, but the freedom to allow the child to make a decision is there for the doctor if they so wish.

I don't think many doctors here would respect just the parent's insistence, but again they could do so. My stance is that the parents, and especially the child, cannot make an informed choice on this, because they have had vital information denied to them.

In all cases the ignorant views of the parents or children should be over-ridden in a legally acceptable way. 

Yeah Children dying because of their parents whack job beliefs.

And we are wrong for fussing.

Funy how a kids is persecuted by family when he doesnt want to be a dub, but his "mature "decision to throw away his one and only life is supported.

HB

This is just another example of wash-towels spin-doctors excusing away a complete horror for damage control. Letting a child die repulses almost any human being, so they put an “us against those wicked apostates blowing it all out of proportion” twist on it. This way all the little rank and filers can be safely tucked (strapped) into their beds for another night of JW bliss because we're suppose to draw comfort and encouragement from these horrid, I mean faithful, parents upholding THEIR belief whilst those nasty opposers persecute us.

Sooooooo sick and twisted!

I don't understand this at all. Why did not the government transfer temporary custody to some entity so that a transfusion could be received.

I used to long for my doctors to call Child Protective Services on my jw mother, take custody of me and give me proper medical care so I wouldn't die.  We weren't in the hospital refusing a treatment but accepting others--we were told I am going to bleed to death and I needed to be hospitalized immediately, but my mother took me home.  No doubt about it, that's child abuse.

I also told my school guidance counselors and school nurses what was happening.  None took any action that I'm aware of.  We were never interviewed by CPS.

Today all of them would lose their licenses for failure to report.