In an article on JW.ORG regarding blood transfusions, the organization answers some commoth “myths” about blood transfusions.
One of the questions goes like this: Myth: Many Witnesses, including children, die each year as a result of refusing blood transfusions.[1]
And the organization goes on to address this “Myth”, making the following statement.
Here the organization states in black and white that it is a myth that many Witnesses, including children, died after refusing blood transfusions. This is a blatant lie. In fact, they published the opposite claim in an Awake Article of 1994 titled “Youths Who Put God First“[2].
So, to say that the statement “Many Witnesses, including children, die each year as a result of refusing blood transfusions” is a myth is absolute deception, and completely contradictory to what they said before.
In addition to their own admission, a recent study by Dr. Osamu Muramoto[3] found that as many as 594 Jehovah’s Witnesses die every year as a direct result of not being allowed a blood transfusion [4], and since the ban on blood transfusion was implemented in 1961, more than 30,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses have died as a direct result of being refused a blood transfusion.
The article is currently still published on their website at the following link: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101994360
References:
[1] jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/jehovahs-witnesses-why-no-blood-transfusions/
[2] wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/101994360
[3] health.usnews.com/doctors/osamu-muramoto-1152681
[4] jwanswers.com/how-many-jehovahs-witnesses-died-because-of-no-blood-transfusions/