ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author discusses critically ill people who are in the valley of the shadow. Within the context, they look at conventional, or traditional, medical treatment, especially with respect to cancer. The author explores complementary, or alternative, approaches to treatment, including a fairly rich discussion about the state of the art with respect to the research on the use of cannabis as an alternative treatment for: epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, controlling the side effects of anticancer treatment, pain, and, indeed, even the treatment of cancer itself. Death was left lying near a rock by the side of the trail, exhausted, thirsty, and so weak he was unable to rise. It was at this moment that Death wondered what would happen to the world if he was unable to do his job. As part of their research at several San Francisco Bay Area hospitals, they coined the term dying trajectory.
