Question by Michael: Do the Jehovahs Ws on this forum inform ex members when someone they were friends with has passed away?
This is one of the ways that I have been treated incredibly cruelly by my friends and family who are die hard JWs. When a mutual friend has died, nobody even calls me to let me know. Therefore I have no ability to attend the funeral or offer my respects in any way. My friend John Galle died of cancer and I found out three years later after running into some JWs who did not know I was no longer a JW. Then my room mate at Bethel, David Gray, died suddenly of a heart attack, and nobody informed me. I just happened to have heard from a freind who also left the org, but I found out several weeks too late for me to attend the funeral. HOW CRUEL can JWs be??? I just can’t imagine knowing a disfellowshipped person who I knew to be out of the loop so to speak and then not tell them a cherished long time friend had passed away. They truly treat me as if I were dead. SHAME on Jehovah’s Witnesses all around the world for this cruel thing they do. My own brother who was also a room mate of David Gray didn’t even tell me about his death. And that hurt so much that I didn’t even get to mourn him with other friends of his.
Is there any other group that has a policy of “non-informing of passed loved ones?” I think even the hardest core cults even would take care to let excommunicated ones of the loss of a dear one. But Jehovah’s Witnesses? No way. So this question is for David Gray, John Galle, Tim Fennimore and all the other JW loved ones who are now dead, and I don’t know about, which is who knows how many I haven’t heard about. Oh, and dear old Margaret Rhinehardt, my old pioneer buddy….
i love how the JWs here, without knowing me, assume that I have done something wrong, as in some immoral action that I must repent from. Exactly “Biblical.” Yes Lioness, I am glad these JWs rear their ugly head of self righteousness and judgemental hate when they get an opportunity. Obviously I am not the only ex-JW who has been abused by the JWs. And just like the JWs, at first they cite “spiritual” reasons for shunning, but when I point out to them that they technically CAN talk to me to inform me of lost loved ones we share in common, suddenly it’s all, “Oh, we just don’t want anything to do with you and we don’t owe you anything.” I have even had a brother (fleshly brother mind you) that told me he never really liked me and that was the real reason he was shunning me. Yeah, they are a sick group of people and desperately in need of intervention. See the Candace Conti case for all the ammo you need to gag and barf your way to kingdom come.
i love how the JWs here, without knowing me, assume that I have done something wrong, as in some immoral action that I must repent from. Exactly “Biblical.” Yes Lioness, I am glad these JWs rear their ugly head of self righteousness and judgemental hate when they get an opportunity. Obviously I am not the only ex-JW who has been abused by the JWs. And just like the JWs, at first they cite “spiritual” reasons for shunning, but when I point out to them that they technically CAN talk to me to inform me of lost loved ones we share in common, suddenly it’s all, “Oh, we just don’t want anything to do with you and we don’t owe you anything.” I have even had a brother (fleshly brother mind you) that told me he never really liked me and that was the real reason he was shunning me. Yeah, they are a sick group of people and desperately in need of intervention. See the Candace Conti case for all the ammo you need to gag and barf your way to kingdom come.

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