As wonderful as life can be sometimes it can also be unbearable, like when you lose your spouse to death. It is not easy being a widower, so many deep wounds and suffering, many which may never reach the surface and yet be felt and come into play one way or another. I don’t think anyone can ever be the same after losing a love one from cancer, or in any way. Yet sometimes one must see through their grief and do what is right. I celebrate those who are suffering so and yet choose to ask questions, dig in and find the truth about the cancer industry. With all the propaganda about the cancer industry, I am always so grateful when people decide NOT to donate to cancer research which often just helps contributes more to the deception of that cruel and dishonest industry.
I think people want, maybe emotionally need, to believe, when they are vulnerable after being told they, or a loved one has cancer, that the money behind the medical world is pure and good and will do right by them. It is always such a shock to find out otherwise; and it is often hard to explain to people, under their horrendous circumstances, the truth until they are strong enough, and willing enough to do the research themselves. People often are not strong enough to hear the truth, especially when it is the opposite of what they have always believed and just never questioned before.
Other industries are just as bad too, except the consequences of other deceptive industries are not as dire as when you are fighting for your life, or that of a loved one. Yet I often find the same issue in the grieving industry as I do the cancer industry, a lack of ethics….. in taking advantage of a person’s fear, vulnerabilities and ignorance by believing what they have been told. I support those who have strong ethics and do what is right. I do not support people who deceive or steal from others. Sometimes when people lose a loved one to death they are desperate for communication with them and are often drowning in their grief especially at the beginning when it is all so raw. And there are people who will choose to take advantage of these vulnerable, grieving or desperate humans under the umbrella of grief therapy. But instead of helping these people find their way, these people offering grief therapy by communicating with their loved ones who have passed over, instead, simply help them spend money they often don’t have.
There are groups in the grieving industry as well as the psychic medium industry who do help people in need, but there are more humans who will take advantage of a person in a vulnerable situation. Every one deserves to earn a living but at what cost to the majority of people in their communities? I resent “professional mediums,” who, sometimes, in my neck of the woods, will charge up to $350 or more for a half hour consultation with a grieving person. To me, that is stealing someone’s blood money. How long did it take that person to earn that money by trading their hours for dollars? The facts are, almost eighty percent of Americans are living pay check to pay check; so how many Americans can actually afford that type of fee….. be it a: doctor, lawyer or a physic medium’s fee? Are these professions only marketing to the twenty percent of the population who can really afford them…… unless they enjoy fleecing those who can’t afford them and yet desperately are seeking out their services? How vulnerable must one be, how deeply hurting must one be, how scared must one be who is so vulnerable that they are dishing out an outrageous sum of money from their budget or savings, if they are among the few that have any, in desperation for a half hour consultation with a psychic medium? I remember one Medical Doctor at a conference setting laughing, as he drank his wine and ate his cheese stating, “I can charge whatever I want because, as my colleagues all know, a cancer patient will always come up with the money somehow.” His fees were outrageous, and people mortgaged their houses, and that of their families in order for his consultations. Is that morally ethical? I once had a young college student tell me he didn’t need ethics because he was going into business and then politics. He said he just needed smarts and charm.
I do think, if we have ethics, that it does matter how we earns a living. I personally don’t think anyone is worth $350 for a half hour consultation: not doctors, not lawyers and especially not psychic mediums. When one’s fees are so much higher than what the majority of people earn in your area can afford, is your soul shining brightly for taking half ,or even all of what it takes them to earn in a week, for an exchange of a half hour of your time? Everyone always rationalizes what they charge. A chiropractor will claim they need equipment for their office, a psychic medium might claim their work is emotionally draining on their bodies, and of course the oncologist gets…. what percent of all the chemo drugs they prescribe to their patients? He so enjoys his $50, 000 vacations, yet never goes to the funerals of his patients who made those vacations possible for him.
Truth, honest money, and an egalitarian respect for people’s lives, time, assets and work… will never shine brightly when almost eighty percent of Americans are living pay check to paycheck without having as little as $400 set aside for an emergency, while the few others will charge fees that the majority can’t afford, feeding off the vulnerabilities of people who are sacred, vulnerable and desperate.