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I would recommend the video "No Blood - Medicine Meets the Challenge". Ask any of Jehovah's Witnesses to get it for you when they call at your door.
The group is know as "Jehovah's Witnesses". They believe that receiving blood transfusions are the same as drinking blood, which is stickily forbidden in the old testament law and repeated in the new testament book of Acts where Gentile believers were to "they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication." The problem comes down to whither or not transfusions are drinking blood or not.
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Robert M. Winslow has written: 'Advances in Blood Substitutes' 'Hemoglobin-based red cell substitutes' -- subject(s): Blood Substitutes, Hemoglobin
No!In fact, some added benefits for not accepting the blood transfusion techniques.Please see LINK below; dated July 3, 2012Not necessarily. It would depend on the circumstances. As one of the links below suggests there can be benefits from surgeons performing cardiac operations and Witnesses have been shown to have a better recovery rate.However, as another link below suggests, in different circumstances it could mean that Witnesses are at greater risk for not accepting blood.It must be stressed though, that the 'no blood' policy of Jehovah's Witnesses has nothing at all to do with any perceived risks or benefits of blood transfusions.The policy is not based on medical reasons. Even if blood was proven to be 100% safe, or 100% fatal and there were no alternatives, Witnesses would still refuse blood.
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Jehovah's Witenesses do not receive blood transfusions, for religious reasons. Depending therefore, on the reason for their hospitalization, various nonblood fluids volume expanders might be adminitstered when one might otherwise have been given blood. Other than that, Jehovah's witnesses, would expect the same level of care, consultation rights and legal protection as any other patient when in hospital.
Normal Human Blood is used for transfusions but now the medical world is starting to see the dangers of using Blood and the advantages of using Blood substitutes (non Blood products) and also what is also known as Bloodless surgical methods too, these methods were brought to the limelight due to the fact of close cooperation with the Jehovah's Witnesses due to their stance on Blood.
Yes - - minus any kind of blood; and I suppose human flesh (not even in emergency situations; ie a plane crash where others might decide to eat human flesh due to the dire situation; we would not. God did not give us blood to eat; neither human flesh.)
"Jehovah's Witnesses are a Christian denomination known for their door-to-door evangelism, distinctive beliefs such as the rejection of blood transfusions, and emphasizing activities like Bible study and evangelism."
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"Jehovah's Witnesses" is what we are called. And we believe blood is sacred and should not be given away. However, some Jehovah's Witnesses do give and receive blood. It is a moral problem.