text: Nov 17, 20113:30 PM
  Typically, though, the religion frowns upon storing one's blood for a future surgery or emergency. Just recently, an Australian coroner reported that a Jehovah's Witness who died after a surgical complications could have been saved by a blood transfusion. The coroner said that the death "most graphically illustrates the consequence of the rigid adherence to that doctrine and brings me to recommend, perhaps forlornly, that the Jehovah Witness Governing Body and its elders give consideration to a relaxation of its doctrine."