Thank you, Lee, for that information. Thank you too for all your hard work in this regard.
It's very sad to see people dying so needlessly. Sometime back in our congregation an old man who had been associated but not baptized had to have some surgery. Things got very messy and he needed blood. He refused and he died. One of the doctors was very upset about the whole matter. She tried her best to get the wife to allow them to try to save the man but the wife was adamant about 'her husband's wishes'. What makes that even sadder still was that they have a daughter that's df'd and she was there, of course, during the whole ordeal. The mother would hardly acknowledge her presence as she sat there and cried for her father who was dying.
I was still an elder then but I talked regularly with the young lady and her husband during that terrible wait. I believe that the old man never got baptized because he wanted to continue to have contact with his daughter and he knew that would be extremely difficult if he was baptized. In the end, however, a man-made doctrine killed him.
-Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it-