[BlackVeil]

This is a strange case. I think it is a bad thing, and the boy should not be sent to live in a Buddhist monastery.

[ClearCase_guy]

Sounds like a lot of Liberal Jewish parents I know in MA -- you want a medical miracle? Oy veh! Maybe you should try Buddhism.

Personally, I'd stick with God.

[Mount Athos]

It’s the parents right to decide.

It’s not as if they haven’t tried modern medicine, he had a bone marrow transplant. Maybe the doctors said there isn’t much more they can do.

It sure sounds like he’s being well treated at the monastery and he sounds ok with it.

I don’t see a good case for overriding the parents wishes.

[Terry L Smith]

I know nothing, for sure, about the parents, or this being a child abuse case, et al. I DO know, that this child, this ISRAELI child, is living in peace, with none of the Middle East death around the corner daily life. He is being cared for, among those that do not practice harm to others.

I lived in Thailand for three years. I do know that the Buddhist monks really work out what they believe. I’ve had many a pot of tea, to base my opinion.

The child has a disease that is life-taking. Should the monks teach him the acceptance of our human frailty with longsuffering, and with the quiet victory of each day alive brings, then all the other arguments really don’t mean much.

My ‘friend of green eyes’ is longsuffering with her body racked from Toxic black mold exposure. Her doctor told her she will die, with no recourse, just ‘staying actions’, in 2003. Every day I hear her voice, is one more small victory.

[WesternPacific]

Parents of very ill children seem to become very desperate when modern medicine fails.

[ASA Vet]

Thai Ping

[yldstrk]

sounds like his mom is some sort of kook