I think someone who is dying and loves life will try all sorts of
things the seem to have some sense to them. Approved medicine tends to
come first, followed by religion (prayer, going to temple, etc.)
followed by the traditional medicines of the culture followed by
practically anything people suggest or they themselves think up.
Cost
and false hope and the potential of the treatments doing additional
harm are the objections to these efforts, but sheesh just the western
treatments which only defer death can bankrupt a family, and I see
nothing wrong with hope -- even false hopes help in other ways, and
surely we don't insist that regular accepted medical treatments don't
also often do their own harm via side effects.
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