Jehovah's Witnesses Banned In Moscow

[ufonium2]

Wouldn't it be hard to have a transplant with out a transfusion?
tulc(drinking coffee, thinking hard!)

There are some fairly bloodless transplants. A few years ago I was going to have a cornea transplant, probably the closest thing to a "bloodless transplant" that you can have. I have a blood problem that would've made me reject a transplant most likely, so they did another procedure that had been developed specially for people whose religion doesn't allow transfusions or transplants. This is the first I've heard of a religion that doesn't allow transfusions but does allow transplants.

Regarding the reasoning that "the blood one accepts contains anothers waste," is that not true for organs? Certainly it must be for kidneys and livers....I mean that's what they do. Maybe a lung transplant wouldn't contain waste, but a kidney transplant would have to.

 

[lared]

Perhaps so.
It was just a secondary point to highlight a potential danger when there are alternatives available.

 

[lared]

So does air, yet there's no Biblical mandate against breathing.

That is true.