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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I’m a cardiothoracic surgoen truthseeker … what are you a professional mud slinger?
SICK! SICK! SICK!. I’ve been dating/friends with a JW for 3years and it has been HELL!. He has very strange and unreal values as in like this here!..It is a cult, have you read the long list of RULES? what you can not do as a JW. It’s over 100 rules and I find some funny. Couldn’t help but smile and share my laughter with others. I also share it with my friend and he does alot of the things on that list! I find it interesting to see and watch his family and other jw’s I have met congregate like a pack of wolves at eachothers homes and my friend goes and I listen to the silly things when he returns from the adventure they call meetings. I have been to one on easter week w/ a friend and NEVER AGAIN!!!. I am catholic and attended private catholic school and did all the requirements of my religion. But, I don’t push it on anyone else…..i feel bad for all JW’s..wow!!!
Hmmmm I don’t think it’s right to be calling names specially if u are a professional lauren shit head u fuck witt embicile yup i can’t spell so u know teach me fucking ashole damn fucking shit head u mother fucking cunt
lauren u better get a grip on ur life matey just get on with life jus tlik eam movin gon yup criticise me as well yup am uncivlise fuck witt like you shit fucking ashole now u got the point it does takes time but keep moving on with ur real world shit head look i have deeeptowards a murderer who killed my dad but gosh u just dated a jw and now u are becoming a bit psycho maybe u should make it all the way huh ..hay yay yay looking forward to ur next posting bitch!!!!
vandyke, clearly you don`t need a surgeon, more a psychiatrist.
Poor Lost Soul’s, what a load of nonsense you`ve come up with. A list of `rules`? Do me a favor! You should get a life, your friend sounds a lot happier than you seem to be. There`s nothing wrong with having standards in this world, and if you find that amusing you`re the one to be pitied, not your JW friend.
According to a number of news reports I`ve been reading Emma would almost certainly have died whatever treatment she had received. So this thing that she died `because she refused a blood transfusion` is garbage. Many of you here have got taken in by sensationialistic journalism. That`s very naive of you, you really shouldn`t take everything you read in the newspapers as fact.
Interesting that thus far no medical people have appeared here and commented about the evils of JWs, just those with an agenda, hey Jerry & Danny? Ex JWs who eat, sleep, & breathe JWs, how sad is that.
Massive blood loss can only be counteracted with a blood transfusion. She died due to massive blood loss, and a transfusion may or may not have saved her life, but she never even had the chance to find out. Sad to see the life of a beautiful mom ended before she could love and raise up her children.
The blood teaching is false, the WT misleads as to the dangers of blood. This story, and others like it, are heartbreaking. Blood doesn’t fix everything, but it saves millions of lives each year, for real. It doesn’t kill millions. A few may die of complications of taking blood, but many many people are alive today because of blood products forbidden to JWs.
I wouldn’t take blood lightly, but certain death (such as she was facing) vs. the tiny possibility of complication or disease? That is not even an issue to a reasonable person. Every medical procedure takes risks. We measure them against the benefits. If my known risk was that I would be a little weaker for a few days w/o blood, I would probably refrain from taking it with the risks being what they are. Certain death or near certain death as the alternative to taking blood? I’ll risk living with a treatable disease so I can raise my kids, and see grandchildren someday. Not even a question!
The WT stance would be bad enough if they were merely misinterpreting the Bible, but they are exaggerating the dangers of blood in addition, and I think that is unconscionable-they are scaring people away from procedures just in case the religious reasoning doesn’t really make sense to them. Nasty.
What makes me laugh is the amount of ex-JW’s who love nothing more than slinging mud at the Organisation. If it wasn’t so tragic it would be funny. Why don’t you all go and get a life?
And the rest of you - please check out your facts before you write such utter nonsense.
Lauren - I respect your comment and it was nice to hear someone from the medical profession comment.
No-one knows the full story here but rather than let this guy grieve for his wife everyone would rather be unbelievably cruel and heartless.
Those of you saying how horrendous this was - do you also make the same claims for all the needless abortions carried out every day?
At least the Witnesses have standards and morals that are upheld.
Give it a rest and crawl back under the rocks from which you came.
In a word Jehovah’s Witnesses are a *scapegoating* cult,they exist and thrive on a supremacist tyrannical doctrine they they are superior and the one true religion.They have NO tolerance for dissent
Lots of the usual venom from Danny Haszard whose sole purpose in life seems to be to find articles about Jehovah’s Witnesses and publish his bile.
Lots of emotion too, understandably perhaps, BUT no mention of the facts about blood transfusions.
Just consider the following extracts about a recent study on the use of blood transfusions in cardiac surgery:-
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“single-center retrospective cohort study of over 5,800 patients”
“The investigators found that transfusion was strongly associated with increased infection – over 3-fold higher in transfused patients compared with non-transfused.”
“transfusion was associated with a greater than 3-fold adjusted increased risk of ischemic events.”
“The risks increased with the number of units transfused.”
“does not support current recommendations for more liberal transfusion thresholds for elderly and high-risk patients.”
“transfusion was associated with increased ICU, high-dependency unit and hospital length of stay and a 40% increase in overall hospital costs.”
“The 30-day mortality rate was over 6-times higher in the transfused patients and increased mortality was observed up to 7 years after surgery.”
“study argues against the proposition that the adverse outcomes associated with transfusion are a result of sicker patients receiving transfusions rather than the transfusion per se.”
“The authors state that they believe the harmful effect of transfusion is real. They hope that these finds will serve as an impetus for governments to invest in research to address issues raised by this study.”
“At any time after their operations, transfused patients were less likely to have been discharged from hospital (hazard ratio [HR], 0.63; 95% CI, 0.60 to 0.67) and were more likely to have died (0 to 30 days: HR, 6.69; 95% CI, 3.66 to 15.1; 31 days to 1 year:”
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You can read it for yourself at:-
http://www.sabm.org/news/detail.php?id=605
Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t avoid blood because of medical reasons but their refusal is medically sound.
Clearly the hospital was not geared up to deal with an obvious high risk case of a twin birth where blood use was not an option, they must live with that error just as Emma’s family must live with her loss.
HELLO JW’s DO use all kinds of Blood products DON’T donate back blast anyone who exposes their hypocrisy they got a burr on their butt about whole blood but use all the “parts” you are fanatics and freaks