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When religious principles conflict with medical necessity

My Jain mother refuses cancer treatment because she says any medicine involves violence to microscopic life and I am watching her choose death over healing in the name of ahimsa.

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Sacred principles and human survival create an unbearable tension that threatens both body and soul.

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