Jehovah’s Witness Emma Gough: Husbands Farewell To Wife
Filed under: News | By: Kerry
Posted on: November 6, 2007 | 23 Comments
The husband of a Jehovah’s Witness Emma Gough who had of twins and then died after refusing a blood transfusion spoke of his grief at her funeral yesterday in Telford, Shropshire.
Anthony Gough, must now face bringing up his newborn twins without their mum, Anthony said that “It’s difficult for everyone. We are coping the best we can.”
A family source has said that “It is impossible to imagine the anguish he is going through.”
Emma Gough who was just 22, died hours after having the healthy babies.
Emma had signed a form forbidding a transfusion because her faith banned it. But complications led to a massive blood loss and despite medics asking then to overturn her decision her family could not bring them self to do it.
The source said that “The Witness community knows it was a decision he had to make and supports it. Emma made her decision because the Bible tells Witnesses they must abstain from blood.
An inquest into Emma’s death has been opened and adjourned.
One of Anthony’s neighbours has said that “I can’t believe a man wouldn’t do all he could to save his dying wife. What kind of God wants little twins to grow up without a mummy?
But I guess that’s what we are all thinking?
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Many Jehovah’s Witnesses men,women and children die every year worldwide due to blood transfusion ban.Rank & file Jehovah’s Witness are indoctrinated to be scared to death of blood.
FYI
1) JW’s DO USE many parts aka ‘fractions’ aka components of blood,so if it’s ’sacred’ to God why the hypocritical contradiction flip-flop?
2) They USE blood collections that are donated by Red cross and others but don’t donate back,more hypocrisy.
3) The Watchtower promotes and praises bloodless elective surgeries,this is a great advancement indeed.BUT it’s no good to me if I am bleeding to death from a car crash and lose half my blood volume and need EMERGENCY blood transfusion.
Jehovah’s Witnesses elders will investigate and disfellowship any Jehovah Witness who takes a blood transfusion,to say the issue is a ‘personal conscience matter’ is subterfuge to keep the Watchtower out of lawsuits.
The Watchtower’s rules against blood transfusions will eventually be abolished (very gradually to reduce wrongful death lawsuit liability) even now most of the blood ‘components’ are allowed.
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Danny Haszard born 1957 3rd generation Jehovah’s Witness
The Orwellian Watchtower world.
Jehovah’s Witnesses are brainwashed by watchtower cult indoctrination from 12 senile old men in New york city.
The problem is they are forbidden to use critical thinking skills.
Many more have died from the fanatical JW blood ban than died at Jonestown.The Watchtower religion is ‘Jonestown without the kool-aid’
This WatchTower Society requirement that Jehovah’s Witnesses must refuse to accept any blood transfusions dates back only to 1945. Misinterpreting the Old Testament prohibition against eating animal blood as a routine food item, the WatchTower Society began teaching in 1945 that receiving a blood transfusion was “eating human blood”. Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that receiving an infusion of human blood into their body’s circulatory system is scientifically the exact same thing as eating or ingesting blood into their body’s digestive system.
“A patient in the hospital maybe fed through the mouth, through the nose, or through the veins. When sugar solutions are given intravenously it is called intravenous feeding. So the hospital’s own terminology recognizes as feeding the process of putting nutrition into one’s system via the veins. Hence the attendant administering the transfusion is feeding the patient through the veins, and the patient receiving it is eating through his veins.” — The WATCHTOWER magazine, July 1, 1951.
Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that when human blood is transfused into their body’s circulatory system that the transfused human blood remains to be human blood and continues to function as human blood. Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that if blood is eaten, then the ingested blood enters the body’s digestive system, where the blood would be treated by the body exactly the same as it would treat a hotdog, a potato chip, or any other food item. Ingested blood would be completely digested and broken down into proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and waste; which are then either assimilated or excreted by the body.
The WatchTower Society uses scriptures which speak about the blood of slaughtered animals to teach Jehovah’s Witnesses that blood is “sacred” because blood is the “symbol of life”. Then, the WatchTower Society turns around and requires Jehovah’s Witnesses to sacrifice their own “life” to maintain the alleged “sacredness” of a “symbol” of the very thing they are sacrificing — their life. Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse to acknowledge that the WatchTower doctrine on blood moronically places a higher value on the SYMBOL than it does on the THING SYMBOLIZED.
In fact, the Old Testament scriptures permitted the eating of unbled animal meat, which the Bible treats exactly the same as eating animal blood itself. In isolated occasions, when humans needed to eat unbled meat in order to sustain their own human life, the Mosaic Law permitted such, but then required the eaters to fulfill the requirements of being “unclean” for a few days. Thus, the Bible recognized that the sustaining of human life was more “sacred” than maintaining the sacredness of animal blood. To do otherwise would be doing exactly what the moronic WatchTower Society does. It would make the SYMBOL more SACRED than the THING SYMBOLIZED.
In fact, the WatchTower Society is leading Jehovah’s Witnesses to disobey GOD and violate the Holy Scriptures in one of the most serious ways possible. Because humans were created in GOD’s image, GOD considers human life sacred. A Jehovah’s Witness who sacrifices their SACRED LIFE in order to maintain the sacredness of a SYMBOL of that SACRED LIFE varies little from those who profane life by committing suicide. Those Jehovah’s Witness Elders who teach and police this moronic doctrine vary little from common accessories to murder. The Bible is fairly clear in how GOD views murder, and how He deals with Murderers.
This moronic twisting of scripture would be laughable if not for the fact that it has lead to the pointless deaths of numerous Jehovah’s Witnesses in the past, and it will continue to lead to the pointless deaths of many more Jehovah’s Witnesses in the future.
The following website summarizes over 315 U.S. court cases and lawsuits affecting children of Jehovah’s Witness Parents, including 200+ cases where the JW Parents refused to consent to life-saving blood transfusions for their dying children:
DIVORCE, BLOOD TRANSFUSIONS, AND OTHER LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING CHILDREN OF JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
http://jwdivorces.bravehost.com
The parents in Jonestown forced 276 children to drink poison because they too believed it was in their best interests.
What a pity that many of you contributors to this piece don`t do a bit of research before coming out with your judgements on what others do. At least Jehovah`s Witnesses have courage of their convictions.
I wonder how many of you who take such a moral high ground condone the murder of babies through abortions?
And finally, I would suggest that far more die from receving blood transfusions, either through improper matching, or the contracting of disease, than by NOT accepting blood. Blood is NOT guaranteed safe, other alternatives normally are.
Who are Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Dissident Jehovah’s Witness speaks out.
No tolerance,the Jehovah’s Witnesses are a cult because they try to cut you off from others who do not have the same beliefs, including family. The Watchtower is an oppressive organization if there ever was one!
The ‘message’ is their false Gospel that Jesus had his second coming already in 1914.The problem with this,is it’s not just a cute fairy tale, Jesus warned of the false prophets who would claim “..look he is here in the wilderness,or see here he is at the temple”
The Watchtower’s Gospel “kingdom” is a man-made “different version”.(Gal.1:8)
The Watchtower is a truly Orwellian world.
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Danny Haszard Jehovah’s Witness X 33 years and 3rd generation
I am a surgeon and I too would not accept a blood transfusion. I am not “brainwashed” as you accuse Mrs Gough of being, I have studied for many years and I am at the top of my profession. Mine is an informed decision.
I admire Mrs Gough for her stand as well as her family for having the love and strength to support her and respect her personal decision, despite a tragic loss.
I hope my family would respect my decision in the same way
To: Lauren above post the “surgeon”
I am sure you are a skilled jehovah’s Witnesses TREE pruning surgeon
Lauren-Are you really a ’surgeon’?
Or,are you a Jehovah’s Witnesses apologist making it all up?