Val Kilmer’s family says actor’s faith is hampering tumor treatment: report

[KamaAina]

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/val-kilmer-ignoring-tumor-faith-report-article-1.2100542

Val Kilmer's Christian Science faith is getting in the way of his health, his family reportedly says.

TMZ reported Kilmer's kin are worried sick that he has been ignoring a growing a tumor in this throat because followers of Christian Science typically shun medical treatment.

Sources told the site Kilmer has known about the tumor since the summer, but didn't take any action.

The 55-year-old "Top Gun" actor over the weekend confirmed reports that he was taken to a hospital recently, but chalked it up to "a complication," not a tumor, word of which he called "silly talk."

Well, woo worked for Steve Jobs, why not Val?

[JI7]

1. i don't think Jobs relied on woo for his treatment

i think the cancer he had was one that most people don't survive.

[sabbat hunter]

2. Jobs had

pancreatic cancer, which has a very low survival rate. He did undergo some alternative therapies for it, but he also lived for almost 8 years after his initial diagnosis, which is a very long time for pancreatic cancer, so it probably was a slow going variety. (he also had a liver transplant at one point)

[eShirl]

3. he delayed conventional treatment

that didn't help his chances of survival

(speaking as someone with stage 4 cancer)

[PADemD]

7. Sometimes conventional treatment is worse than the disease.

Please see my PM to you.

[madville]

4. His choice

I have no concern for what others want to do with their bodies or lives.

[JaneyVee]

5. True, this decision effects no one but himself.

[Bandit]

8. Tell that to his family.

[JaneyVee]

9. But it's his body.

[ChosenUnWisely]

10. Yup his life his choice, leave him be.

[BigDemVoter]

6. Well, he can go pray on it. . .

We'll see how that works out for him. . . .

[WillowTree]

11. My aunt and maternal grandmother were both Christian Scientists.

It can be terribly difficult for some family members to cope with when they're sick or dying. But they take great comfort in their faith and that can also be of some comfort to family members who are able to accept them. I could never walk that path, but I can't and won't fault those who do as they're following their own hearts.

[Arugula Latte]

13. Yeah, they have the right to walk their own silly supernatural path

but those who have kids, like Val Kilmer, should think twice before rejecting modern science in favor of the idiocy of stupidass mythology and fairy tales from a primitive people.

[Padiddle]

14. It's still his body

Even if he does have kids. His kids don't "own" him any more than his siblings, parents, or fans do. He does.

If Val is really dying, there are tons of us who will miss him when he's gone, but ultimately it is his choice even if it comes from religious superstition. It's not like if one of Kirk Cameron's kids was gay and he forced that child to go to harmful anti-gay therapy based on oppressive religious bullshit. Or John Travolta not letting his son have intervention treatment because Scientology says that autism is the result of botched auditing. Val's making this decision for no one but himself.

[G_j]

12. he says it's not a tumor, his "family" says it is

is this really a story?