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In Reply to: Another cancer story posted by Peter Frouman on February 22, 2006 at 16:40:08:
This is a tragic story. Not just the fact that the Family had such wrong ideas toward medicines & life-saving surgeries but that they literally forced them on your poor mother, using coercion and terror tactics -- & with fatal consequences.
I lost a good friend in the Family. She was diagnosed with cancer & urged not to take medical treatment. When her cancer was too far progressed & she was of no use to the Family any more because she couldn't work any more, they sent her home to her parents to die. And she did die.
This is a common story. When people get serious illnesses in the Family, they're constrained to 'trust God' & stay away from medicines & then abandoned when that doesn't work. There have been times in the Family's history when they've taken a slightly more moderate stance toward life-saving surgery & medicines, but it does seem that 'Pill or Pilgrimage' was usually the bottom line.
