Yet instead of being saved as a last resort, they are still being performed when other safer options could be used instead.
Jefferywhat, what makes the Watchtower stance cult like and dangerous is that a Witness is not given the option to choose blood as a last resort. It is in these situations that people do die from refusing blood.
Do you take antibiotics? I don't, even when doctors have prescrived them for me, because they reduce the bodies immune system, and they have been dangerously overprescribed. However, there was one situation when I did take antibiotics, when I was in isolation in hospital and dangerously sick. I would like to have that same option regarding blood, not to put my options in the hands of a string of ongoing cult leaders that change their "God directed" stance from year to year.