It does matter whether or not you have the DPA completed. Certainly all baptized Witnesses should take a stand against taking any of the four main componenets of blood, however the medical profession does not go by what we should do. On several occasions I have been involved in cases where Witness relatives were not the closest relatives and because the DPA was not completed the hospital, from a legal stand point, was legally bound by the decision of the non-believing closest relative. Of course this was with unconscious Witness patients. Witnesses are not always consious when they arrive at the hospital.

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Jim Laws