Hypnosis And Cancer

[Zacs-Master]

This may appear a flippant question but bear with me. Having seen my father die from cancer (with complications) and having heard a first hand account of how scared a friend was of dying ( he died at 46), would it be if some comfort to hypnotise the sufferer into believing there was an afterlife?

[Prudie]

So Brompton's mixture is considered bad medical practice - so they jigged it a bit and renamed it the Liverpool Care Pathway.

[woofgang]

sqad that's sadly not always the case (euphoria)

[237SJ]

No. You can`t make people behave in a way that they wouldn`t want to behave (despite what those TV shows portray) and if someone wanted to believe that there was an afterlife then they would believe and there wouldn`t be any need for hypnosis.

[PankySmooch]

Surely if it made them more happy in their final days it's not such a bad thing?

[sandyRoe]

It wouldn't be much comfort if they then though they were going to hell

[Clanad]

Of course, there's always the real thing...

[Old_Geezer]

What: a can of coke ? I know it's reputed to clean coins but ...

[woofgang]

Fair comment Clanad, however, as you probably know yourself, as humans, "the real thing" is actually a solid and unchanging experience for very few people. For convinced atheists and agnostics, i doubt that hypnotism would work; but for those who are plagued by doubt or whose faith is shaky in the face of overwhelming fear, It might work and I am sure that god wouldn't mind.
SandyRoe makes a good point however!

[Clanad]

Problem is, woof… in my experience, at least 75% of atheists, when the layers of the onion are stripped away, are in that condition because of the actions they observe or treatment they have received from those professing to be Believers… yet this same group of people will continue to patronize their bank, buy life insurance, do business with the huge conglomerates controlling utilities as well as retain a personal attorney when most people have had some really sad, bad or otherwise distasteful treatment at the hands of each.

I think it was Ghandi that said something like, "...I liked Christianity until I met one…" For an uber intelligent man searching for truth Ghandi (and others) seems to me to have overlooked a cardinal rule… that being other members be damned (no pun intended) what does the evidence indicate. Based on that, I, for one have chosen to place my daily life as well as the life that nearly almost all of humanity believes is yet to come in the hands of the most famous "man" that has ever lived… whose name is mentioned in reverence by many but that same name is a universal curse word well known throughout the world…

Well played, BTW Old Geezer...

There… having said it I'll find the nearest hidey-hole as we say here in the western U.S. I'll be out when the name calling has relented to a low roar.

[woofgang]

indeed Clanad, but what this discussion is not about is our personal experience but more of a "what if"