A senseless and sad death this is.Where does it say you should lose your mind cos of religion?Where does it say God will curse you cos you received a blood transfusion?I can't understand this and will never understand it.If it is illegal to take your own life by euthanasia,why can't the government pass a law as well that it is illegal to refuse a blood transfusion if it will save your life?Cos the way i see it,its a form of suicide.
Anyway before i move away from the main story,which is a sad one,Ghanaian,Adeline Keh, 40, who suffered a fatal infection after giving birth by Caesarean section to her son at Homerton Hospital in east London,died cos she refused blood transfusion due
to her religion as a Jehova's witness.The report says her husband was distraught,but surely he could have signed for her to recieve the transfusuion as she got worse ,couldn't he?
to her religion as a Jehova's witness.The report says her husband was distraught,but surely he could have signed for her to recieve the transfusuion as she got worse ,couldn't he?
She was transferred to the Papworth heart and lung hospital in Cambridge, where she is said to have refused a blood transfusion and died a month after the birth.
Jehovah's Witnesses refuse to accept blood transfusions because they say blood represents life, and only God is the giver of life.
That belief has led to scores of controversies, many of which have ended up before judges.
Yet the religious movement insists it is 'totally unfounded' to say many Witnesses, including children, die each year after refusing blood.
A statement added: 'Surgeons regularly perform such complex procedures as heart operations, orthopaedic surgery, and organ transplants without the use of blood transfusions.
'Patients, including children, who do not receive transfusions usually fare as well as or better than those who do accept transfusions.
'No one can say for certain that a patient will die because of refusing blood or will live because of accepting it.'
