by horrible life 22 Replies latest jw friends
My guess is from 1961 to 1980 maybe 400 or 500 JWs died from lack of blood. Since many blood components therapies have become conscience-matters and no-blood therapies are working pretty well, the last two and a half decades have probably seen 100 to 200 JW deaths from lack of blood therapy, at most.
If a thousand JWs died each year from this, that'd be 3 a year and a newsworthy story. I just don't see it.
Oh, and, the question posed in the title of the thread ought to be: What if "FLAVOR-AID" was offered?
CYP has a good point. What exactly IS the body count?
A minimum can be calculated simply by reading the Index of WT publications. On top of that are the others whose death certificates say 'leukaemia' - maybe transfusion would have kept them alive long enough for the chemo to work - 'stabbing' ( had they taken blood they would still be here) - 'haemorrhage' (again the root cause, but a BT could have saved them) I reckon the Jonestown cult killed far far fewer. Cygnus - there are what ? 200 or more countries in the world. Even if only one JW died in each one once a month that is 2400 a year - already way beyond the Kool Aid tragedy.
HB (of the "hanging my head in sorrow" class)
