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A Jehovah's Witness by the name of Jose Mestre has refused to remove a 12 pound facial disfigurement for over 36 years because he cannot have a blood transfusion. It has gradually grown throughout the years and he is now pondering treatment options.
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32 responses // Religious Beliefs Prevent Man From Removing Massive Tumor

  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=8_tKh9mlE6Q
    I just showed this picture to my cat. This was his webcam response.
    Swiyyah
  • He is committed! Completely preposterous, but committed! Nothing, other than religion could cause someone to deny medical treatment for such a serious case. This is the physical manifestation of the harm hat religion causes everyone. Pretty ugly, isn't it?
    dco
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    • 9 months ago
  • Swiyyah, I couldn't bare to watch the consummation of what was coming, but that's a pretty funny response to the picture - not to make light of such a horrible thing.
    VoyagerFilms
  • Define Hat religions for me.
    rhoisy
  • http://www.nndb.com/people/858/000031765/
    Religious Beliefs are often upheld over medical treatments, take Bob Marley, a simple toe amputation could have been enough to save the legendary Reggae singers life, but due to his strong Rastafarian beliefs Bob left the cancerous growth continue to take over his vital organs, which sadly caused his death in 1981 at the age of 36.

    Think of any other people that have chosen Religion over health?
    mattbrawn
  • I lived as a Jehovah's Witness for more than 5 years and was eventually excommunicated from their church because I disagreed with many of their beliefs; even after I was baptized in their faith.

    I still disagree with their beliefs on blood transfusions, and this story brings to light how utterly inflexible some of their beliefs are.

    I think that this is a form of child abuse to allow a religious belief to deprive a child from receiving a treatment he so desperately needs.

    Thank you Jesus you led me out of bondage to JW's.

    Hallelujah and Amen.
    jubal
  • How does he breathe and eat?
    JanforGore
  • I'm guessing through a tube. Many, many tubes.

    I'm not one to hate on somebody for their religious beliefs but when you have a 12 pound tumor hanging from you face I'd start to rethink the whole "The Lord is my shepard; I shall not stray" and go see a fucking doctor.
    devo64
  • If I had a hand growing out of my chin I would drop my religious beliefs in a second and get it removed!
    phillyharper
  • What the videos on the link. He can still move his mouth but one of the worries is that the tumor with suffocate him.
    SamuraiNinja
  • Holy Lord Jesus God Allah will forgive you dude. Get the operation, with blood transfusion. What ever it takes!

    Your mother and God will forgive you.
    covelogibbs
  • I wonder what a charitable interpretation of his thinking might look like?
    BooksBrown
  • there is some hope that he can have the tumor removed without needing blood transfusions.
    abbym0308
  • if you watch the video you'll see that he just moves the tumor to eat and he can breath but it is starting to suffocate him.

    it's sad that religion controls people like this. it's ridiculous that someone could let religious propoganda dictate their lives.
    donkeyfly69
  • yep, god wanted you to have that turkey neck...on yer face! hey, stupid! your god also invented the doctors to get those cow chips off yer face. still, gotta respect the resolve this guy has. if i had to eat HIV infected monkey shit to get that off my face, i'd be emptying my bank account and doing backstrokes in it.
    EvilVet
  • As one of Jehovah's Witnesses, my guess is that he's just waiting for the free, painless procedure done by our God himself to take care of this problem. In any case, I commend him for sticking to his beliefs despite an extreme case. His faith will be rewarded; you'll see.
    chunche
  • holy................................crap.
    onechance
  • i just threw up in my mouth a little bit, thanks.
    onechance
  • I like how people claim that people should do as they want and yet when it has something to do with religion and not sex they are state "don't do it that's stupid."

    This is like when people want to go fight for their country. They can die but people respect them for they are protecting their country.

    If he wants to die by fighting for his faith that too should be respected.

    Not everyone is like you and to sit there and convert people to your line of thinking about blood is hypocritical at best.
    J_Jammer
  • Nobody should ever die fighting.

    Fighting is childish and only accomplishes death and destruction.

    If you want your faith to succeed, show people how great it is, not how destructive you can be...


    PEACE
    onechance
  • So there is nothing you would die for?

    And you don't respect soldiers?
    J_Jammer
  • So there is nothing you would die for?

    And you don't respect soldiers?
    J_Jammer
  • These pictures have me salivating. I think it's the kind of salivating that happens before you throw up.
    stephenthomson
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  • No, there's nothing I would KILL for.

    I respect people that respect peace. If there are people in the military that are truely in it to keep the peace, and would never kill, then I respect them...

    There are other ways to keep the peace (ie: detainment etc), and killing just isn't one of them.
    onechance
  • I asked is there anything you'd die for, not kill for.
    J_Jammer
  • Jehovah Witness-ism is not a religion, its a cult.
    chillwillNJ
  • He is used to the "mask" that hides his face, according to the article. That could be one reason he didn't want to get it removed. He is used to being this person, and without the tumor he would be an entirely different one. Strange how our identity holds us prisoner.
    Julie_Soller
  • Yes, J_Jammer, I might die for certain things.

    If someone was trying to kill someone I love, for example, I'd put myself in harms way to protect them, if that's what you mean.

    I can't guarantee that I'd die though...

    That "I'd die for..." is so weird. It's not something that's very realistic to say. It's like people that think this way are so masochistic that they wish to die.

    I'm not afraid of death, I just love life, so I'm not running around thinking up things to die for, sorry man.
    onechance
  • That's not the point. The point is that you have something that you'll die for and this young man deems it important NOT to take blood and he's willing to die for that cause. If this is sad to you it does not matter. You are not him. This is his decision to do this.

    Plus Jehovah's Witness believe in what is called the resurrection. So he too is not afraid of death and he follows what God says is right not man.

    His decision. It is a decision that affects no one who is not part of his family, therefore I do not understand the up in arms aspect of people against what is his life.
    J_Jammer
  • Well put-

    I was more thinking in the aspect of war, since you brought it up earlier. "This is like when people want to go fight for their country. They can die but people respect them for they are protecting their country. " Remember?

    Maybe I shouldn't have strayed off onto your tangent...

    He can go die however he wants.
    Whatever.
    onechance
  • I brought that up because those are people that are willing to die for their country and people they don't know to protect a unified thought. I was not mentioning it to support war but to convey a thought.

    But yes I did say that and apparently it was not stated well enough to be understood...sorry. =P
    J_Jammer

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