# AMA - Ask A Former Jehovah's Witness About Life Before Or After **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 6, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-ask-a-former-jehovahs-witness-about-life-before-or-after/767744 "2016-10-06T01:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 34
**Author:** ![justanothermike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@justanothermike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justanothermike)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-ask-a-former-jehovahs-witness-about-life-before-or-after/767744/34 "2016-10-07T02:23:45Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > I attended a funeral for a friend’s father who was an elder in the local hall. It was a very christian and very conservative service, but the one thing that struck me was the mention of a “Torture Stake”. I had never heard a christian denomination that eschewed the Christ dying on a cross story before. I missed the rest of the service, because I was busily googling Torture Stake. You are correct. JWs do not teach that he died on a cross. They believe it to be an upright stake, with hands above him and feet at the bottom. Here’s a great resource for things about JWs, and for this issue specifically: [http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/cross-or-stake.php](http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/cross-or-stake.php) As to JW funerals, you will often notice that it is just a generic sales pitch for the religion. You will hear very little about the deceased other than that they did this or that in the JW religion, had x amount of sons or daughters or a wife or whatever. It is about pitching the religion to any in attendance because they know that many there aren’t JWs and that death makes people vulnerable and search for answers. They have a script for the entire process. They don’t care to make it about that person’s life or whatever, it’s all about the JWs. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ama-ask-a-former-jehovahs-witness-about-life-before-or-after/767744)._