The authors of the letter recommend drawing up different documents for an emergency situation and for a planned operation. A Jehovah's Witness must provide for himself by his "personal will":

«... the "Medical Order/Disclaimer" and "Proof of Identity" documents are for emergency situations only. Therefore, when a brother or sister is admitted to the hospital for planned treatment, one should not simply show the medical staff these documents or put them on the bedside table in the hospital room (as some have done), hoping that the doctor will thus become familiar with his or her position. Instead, everyone should prepare a detailed personal will for a specific treatment and talk about it with their attending physician (anesthesiologist, surgeon, etc.)."

It is obvious what a "detailed personal expression of will on a specific treatment" of a person who is far from medicine and uses OSB publications will look like if he is going to undergo a planned operation. It is obvious who will help him in this matter, and the medical level of this "personal will" is obvious.

Further, as mentioned above, the elders are given recommendations on how and on what literature111 to provide instruction, after which it is especially noted:

"If there are baptized publishers in your congregation who do not already have the above-mentioned insert, please make sure that each of them receives this important information."

At the end of the letter, so that no one relaxes, it is said that everything that was "recommended" by the letter will be checked:

"Your circuit overseer will inquire about these matters when he visits your congregation in the future."

? la guerre comme ? la guerre (In War as in War)

What does the insert from the NCS for February 1996 represent? To be honest, it gives the impression of an instruction on how to survive in a hostile habitat. The authors tried to give Jehovah's Witnesses instructions on how to act in almost all cases of life if he is admitted to a hospital and is "threatened" with treatment with the use of transfusions of blood or its components, or with the use of blood products. The main advice is the same: "NO BLOOD."

First of all, to make it clear how serious the proposed material is, the OSB asks in the title of the insert: "Are you ready for a test of faith in the event of medical intervention?" - after which he immediately advises: "Keep this information where you can find it immediately if necessary."

The first three paragraphs serve the purpose of making the reader of the insert take the following material seriously.

"None of us thinks that today or tomorrow we can suddenly end up in the hospital. ... Yes, if you have an accident or your health suddenly deteriorates, your faith may be unexpectedly put to the test."