In absolute contrast, if a person dies while on a natural hygiene program, they died because their end was inevitable no matter what therapy was attempted.  Almost certainly receiving hygienic therapy contributed to making their last days far more comfortable and relatively freer of pain without using opiates.  I have personally taken on clients sent home to die after they had suffered everything the doctors could do to them, told they had only a few days, weeks, or months to live.  Some of these clients survived as a result of hygienic programs even at that late date.  And some didn’t.  The amazing thing was that any of them survived at all, because the best time to begin a hygienic program is as early in the degenerative process as possible, not after the body has been drastically weakened by invasive and toxic treatments.  Later on, I’ll tell you about some of these cases.

Something I consider especially ironic is that when the patient of a medical doctor dies, it is inevitably thought that the blessed doctor did all that could be done; rarely is any blame laid.  If the physician was especially careless or stupid, their fault can only result in a civil suit, covered by malpractice insurance.  But let a holistic practitioner treat a sick person and have that person follow any of their suggestions or take any natural remedies and have that person die or worsen and it instantly becomes the natural doctor’s fault.  Great blame is placed and the practitioner faces inquests, grand juries, manslaughter charges, jail time and civil suits that can’t be insured against.

Allopathic medicine rarely makes a connection between the real causes of a degenerative or infectious disease and its cure.  The causes are usually considered mysterious:  we don’t know why the pancreas is acting up, etc.  The sick are sympathized with as victims who did nothing to contribute to their condition.  The cure is a highly technical battle against the illness, whose weapons are defined in Latin and far beyond the understanding of a layperson.

Hygienic medicine presents an opposite view.  To the naturopath, illness is not a perplexing and mysterious occurrence over which you have no control or understanding.  The causes of disease are clear and simple, the sick person is rarely a victim of circumstance and the cure is obvious and within the competence of a moderately intelligent sick person themselves to understand and help administer.  In natural medicine, disease is a part of living that you are responsible for, and quite capable of handling.

Asserting that the sick are pitiable victims is financially beneficial to doctors.  It makes medical intervention seem a vital necessity for every ache and pain.  It makes the sick become dependent.  I’m not implying that most doctors knowingly are conniving extortionists.  Actually most medical doctors are genuinely well-intentioned.  I’ve also noticed that most medical doctors are at heart very timid individuals who consider that possession of a MD degree and license proves that they are very important, proves them to be highly intelligent, even makes them fully qualified to pontificate on many subjects not related to medicine at all.