A Sad Event

As the news recounts this morning, a woman refused blood following childbirth on the grounds that her religion forbids it, and, consequently, she died. Now, I don't know the ins-and-outs of witnessing Jehovah, but I presume her steadfastness was grounded on sacred texts, and her wish not to sin. If only one of the nurses had the presence of mind to ignore her beliefs and give her the blood anyway; that way, her motherless twins would grow up with the integral maternal bonds we all cherish. I couldn't help guffawing at the statements of her friend: "we can't believe [it] happening in this day and age". Perhaps her unfounded psychological delusion has no place in this day and age too. In today's Western society, on the back of a technological evolution, this event is a travesty. If she would rather have died than be administered with blood, that's her choice, but the innocent individuals here without a choice are her children. Needless to say, they would doubtless have been brought up to be Jehovah's Witnesses also, which, if I were to adopt my pseudo-Dawkinsian guise, is worse than having no mother at all.