RE: Re: Choices -Also one other thing that prevents people from doing the lifestyle

[Guest guest]

People choose surgery, chemo, and radiation because that is what the doctors

tell them will work. There is a trust factor involved and most people simply

trust the doctor to make the right decision. They trust the training. They

trust the position. And that is that. The vast majority of the people I work

with have had everything modern medicine can do and are now searching for one

last chance because the system has failed. They believed the doctors right up

to the point where there was nothing left to do. And, many of them simply go

home and die because that is what they have

been told to do. Even those that come to me and ask questions frequently refuse

to listen because it does not fit into what they believe based upon what they

have already been told. The doctor said nothing will help. They look but at

the same time are looking for reinforcement of what was told to

them.

They are afraid to try because what has already transpired has failed and they

do not want to face another failure. So, rather than try one more time, they

simply accept that there is nothing more to do. That way the hopes are not

dashed and they do not have to worry about it any longer.

I know this is really a whacked out way to look at things, but after

interviewing more than 100 people in the last 18 months that have (or had and

are now dead) terminal cancer, this is really what it all boiled down to. Death

was preferable to failure. Again, it is a matter of choice.

The other side of the coin is that those who survive are also vindicated because

they too believed the doctor. A wonderful reinforcement of negativism.

Please understand that I am not anti-cancer treatment with modern medicine. Nor

am I anti-doctor. I believe everyone has the right to choose whatever program

they wish, but what irritates me more than anything are those who believe that

only their way works and anyone who does not listen to them is wrong. Well, we

pick on the medical profession because they generally get first crack at the

nut, but a lot of people do not choose any more wisely when it comes to natural

solutions to things and even fewer consider using both to their advantage.

Regards,

Bruce Guilmette, PhD

Author: THERE'S MORE TO LIFE THAN JUST LIVING, A Personal Story About Cancer

Survival

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has

enough trouble of its own. Matt 6:34 (NIV)

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Behalf Of JCastron

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:09 PM

Subject: Re: [ ] Re: Choices -Also one other thing that prevents

people from doing the lifestyle

I think we would need to look pretty far and wide to find people seeking

conventional treatments, Chemo, surgery, and Radiation, for the purpose of

getting attention.

The very same reason one 'could not look their children in the eye and

choose a burger', is the very same reason people have for 'not looking their

children in the eye to choose some kooky, vitamin/supplement or Flax Oil

protocol but instead select what 90+% of the people do select and that is

conventional treatment. I do not think people select conventional for

'getting attention'.

Too many of us, and I've seen it on another list as well, look down on

people that do not subscribe to what they want them to subscribe. How

cockey can one be? We believe we have learned something therefore those

'others', those attenton seeking people simply look for presents. We need to

be thankful we have learned or maybe we are cowards and are afraid to go

conventionally because of the pain and suffering? Maybe that's it. We are

afraid. I do not believe that for one moment, but wouldn't that be the same

kind of accusation that they want 'attention'?

It is what Bruce said, Choices, and I add, based upon beliefs. It wasn't too

long ago many of us believed the same thing.

Joe C.

[Guest guest]

I think we would need to look pretty far and wide to find people seeking

conventional treatments, Chemo, surgery, and Radiation, for the purpose of

getting attention.

The very same reason one 'could not look their children in the eye and choose a

burger', is the very same reason people have for 'not looking their children in

the eye to choose some kooky, vitamin/supplement or Flax Oil protocol but

instead select what 90+% of the people do select and that is conventional

treatment. I do not think people select conventional for 'getting attention'.

Too many of us, and I've seen it on another list as well, look down on people

that do not subscribe to what they want them to subscribe. How

cockey can one be? We believe we have learned something therefore those

'others', those attenton seeking people simply look for presents. We need

to be thankful we have learned or maybe we are cowards and are afraid to go

conventionally because of the pain and suffering? Maybe that's it. We are

afraid. I do not believe that for one moment, but wouldn't that be the same

kind of accusation that they want 'attention'?

It is what Bruce said, Choices, and I add, based upon beliefs. It wasn't too

long ago many of us believed the same thing.

Joe C.