Young mother dies after refusing blood transfusion?

Her new born twins are being cared for by their father. She was a Jehova's Witness.

Your thoughts please...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shrop...

No religion for me is so powerful that it would stop me from seeing my children growing up .
Such a sad sad waste of a life now these children have to grow up without a mother because of these crazy beliefs.

It was her decision.
While I disagree with it, you cannot force someone to violate their religious principles.

I see no question

It is what it is, LIFE

a sad waste of life
particularly as the jehovahs recently acknowledged that those receiving blood should no longer be excommunicated

based on her beliefs knowing someone will care for her twins

the chouse is for the mother to decided wether or not to live or die we have to respect her wishes hard as it may seem

鈼?What are the Scriptural grounds for objecting to blood transfusions?

Jehovah made a covenant with Noah following the Flood, and included therein was this command: 鈥淔lesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.鈥?(Gen. 9:4) The Law given through Moses contained these restrictions: 鈥淓at neither fat nor blood.鈥?鈥淓at no manner of blood.鈥?鈥淲hatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people. For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul. For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh.鈥?(Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10, 11, 14; 19:26) And in the Greek Scriptures the instruction to Christians is: 鈥淭he holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you, except these necessary things, to keep yourselves free from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things killed without draining their blood and from fornication.鈥濃€擜cts 15:19, 20, 28, 29; 21:25, NW.

x. it was her decision to leave two Innocent children without a mother in the name of religion. will those children grow up thanking the religion or rebelling against it for taking their mother away time will tell. x

selfish..poor kids!.
and the religion is put upon kids too,they get no choice and will grow up with these hairbrain ideas.
religion causes most of the problems in this world!

Just read that story,ffs how come in this day and age we have allowed this to happen.Religion is backward and for the members of her/his family they should be charged with helping her to her death (sorry forgot the word for it) What will her twins think about there father and there grandparents.They should hang there heads in shame.

my father in law is of this religion lucky for me no one else in his family are and he would let himself die rather then get a blood transfusion, its like the will go to hell if they do, but that's religion for you, this young mum isn't the 1st and will not be the last, in the end it is up to the individual, poor little babies

selfish decision yet again fueled by religion.
two children now have to grow up without a mother because humans feel the need to believe in some sort of "faith".

It was her right to choose but such a sad loss of life and the children will never get to meet their mummy. A very sad story.

It's hard for us to accept decisions like that and see the point in leaving your babies behind and dying for the sake of a belief.
What we must remember though is,it was her choice.My heart goes out to her family and her babies.

The truth about what they believe is wrong god did not want us to consume blood meaning drinking of it or eating of raw meat with it he did not say we could not get transfusions to save our lives when will they ever learn when all their kids grow up with out parents or when all there kids die from being refused the gift of life do they realize that was her committing suicide in her own way and she will be condemned to hell now and committing murder when they do this to there kids and let them die i guess they will all finally realize this when they all find themselves in eternal damnation in there so called heaven

Religion never helped anyone!

I can't imagine what it was like for her, the dreadful dilemma she faced. Those poor children, never having a mum.

That makes me so angry, an elder in the Jehovah Witness cult needed a liver, and he accepted the transplant. The liver contains blood, there are some hypocrites
in that cult. It is do as I say, not do as I do
now we have two little babies left without a mother makes me sick.

I think this is disgusting. There is no proof of the bible and still these people believe what they read. Didnt mommy teach them that not everything you read is the truth.
Jodi

bloody bonkers, jehovahs witness's are nuts, my friends mother was one. fancy not loving your kids enough that you wouldn't do ANYTHING to stick around and protect them. nuts the lot of em.

It is part of her faith,she believed in their teachings & did not want to go against that.Jehovah Witnesses do not believe in accepting other peoples blood,(not such a bad idea in some ways,none of them will contract aids/hiv virus through blood transfusion).Hard for anyone to understand that has no religious beliefs but it was her choice.If her husband is also a witness & has a strong faith too,he will expect to see her again one day,they believe that one day there will be a physical ressurection.

I think her love for her kids should have been more than the love for her God.

This is just my opinion - I would kill for my child and would die for her but I would have the will to live to be with her also. This is a mothers responsibility - she should never have had children if she had a greater love for something else.

Sick.

Did Jesus not turn Blood into Wine. The elixir of life?

All cults should be outlawed.

She'll be kicking herself when she finds out she's number 144,001.

I would dearly like to see the Jehovah's Witnesses actually discuss the reasons behind their decision not to accept blood transfusions. Most Christians disagree with their interpretation of the bible, as do I.

Selfish. I cannot believe that any mother would put her religious beliefs, above and beyond that of being around for her children.

Another cult claims a victim.

I think its awful for the family left behind but doctors shouldnt be allowed to force someone to have a blood transfusion against their will.

Whilst this deluded family (in the name of religion) saw it in them to allow a precious human life be wasted in the name of their beliefs, is "wrong" - if that is what they believe, so 'effin what? It IS upsetting for others to understand how on earth anyone could do this. But if they want to die, if the father of the new born twins allows his wife to die, if the husband allows his precious wife to die - I say again so ''effin what, and good riddance. It's only us stupid human beings that have all this so called "intelligence" that drives each and every one of us to be "free" to do what we want in the cause of religion, emotions and thought. Every other goddam animal on this planet is born purely to eat, survive and procreate. That is why my friends WE will soon shaft ourselves up the orifice and wipe ourselves off the face of this beautiful planet, and just leave the last pair of JW's, who'll be saying to themselves "Told you so.....!" as they go knocking on your door on a Saturday morning.

how dumb can you get.

It is her right. God is very powerful, if he wanted her to live then she would still be alive.