US film star Patrick Swayze dies

Post by **PeteC** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:52 am

Sad, sad. He wasn't a super star but I enjoyed the work he did. RIP Dirty Dancer.

Pete

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8256033.stm

Post by **hhfarang** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:49 pm

Me and the missus watched the first (and I guess the last unless they replace him) season of "The Beast" on TV over the last few months and we both really liked it.

My wife commented early on in the series that "the hero" (as she called him), Patrick Swayze, didn't look healthy. I just thought he was getting older like we all are but she has had insights like this before that have turned out to be correct.

From now on if she tells me I look sick, I'm running to the hospital!

R.I.P Mr. Swayze

Post by **MrPlum** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:44 am

I liked him too. The chemo was obviously devastating but it seems crazy that he was still smoking and drinking lots of milk and high fat drinks. All serious no-no's in the natural health field.

Post by **Vital Spark** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:10 pm

From what I've read the prognosis wasn't good, and he managed to hang on to life much longer than anyone expected.

Mr.P: Of course an unhealthy diet and smoking isn't good for anyone, but quite honestly if you've been diagnosed with an incurable disease, you're not going to give up the things that may make your life just that little bit more bearable.

VS.

Post by **MrPlum** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:37 pm

Vital Spark wrote:From what I've read the prognosis wasn't good, and he managed to hang on to life much longer than anyone expected.

Mr.P: Of course an unhealthy diet and smoking isn't good for anyone, but quite honestly if you've been diagnosed with an incurable disease, you're not going to give up the things that may make your life just that little bit more bearable.

VS.

I knew I'd be in trouble if I dared say anything.

However, the same criticism was all over the media, so hardly a contrary view.

Sometimes stopping smoking can cause more stress than continuing but it would take some persuading to convince me that continuing to smoke is worth the 'hell on wheels' (as Patrick put it) of chemotherapy. The first time those toxic chemicals hit my bloodstream the fags would be out the window.

There is not one smoker in the hospital ward which deals with smoking related diseases who doesn’t regret the day that they lit up their first cigarette and who doesn’t regret the fact that they did not give up before they got sick.

Maybe it had something to do with false hope over a new experimental drug called 'Vatalanib'. Or, as you suggest, deep down he felt there was no real prospect, so why bother? Or he was simply chronically addicted.

If it was me I would give this protocol a go, rather than go the chemo route... http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/proto ... ancer.html

No offence intended.

Post by **charlesh** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:59 pm

I knew some people who didn't smoke (ever) and wanted to jump out of a window after their chemo!
Perhaps it is all in the genes after all and is a matter of quality of life not quantity when it is reduced to the basics.

Post by **PeteC** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:34 pm

charlesh wrote:.........Perhaps it is all in the genes after all and is a matter of quality of life not quantity when it is reduced to the basics.

Pete

Post by **sandman67** » Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:05 pm

Trailer Park Boys will never be the same again

"Goin off the rails on a Sawyze Train"

Post by **BaaBaa.** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:26 am

I wonder if Whoopi has heard off him yet?