I don't think people would be against trying at least the alternative medicine approach as a "last resort" if they still have that hope and will, after being told there's nothing more that could be done by conventional means.
From what I've studied in respect to the psychology of people who value alternative approaches instead of or even along with actual medicine what they consider evidence for efficacy in use boils down to either placebo effect or mind over matter principle in action. Neither of these techniques works for the majority, not because alternative medicine is bunk but because it is not shown in trials to have the same wide spread positives as chemically developed medications and other tested procedures that ARE shown to work in the majority of cases where they are used.
It's not called alternative medicine because it is actually medicine but because people who got roped into it well beyond having an understanding of placebos and mind over matter got uncomfortable with words like hokum, bunk, bullshit, or phrases like 'just because it worked once in an outlier manner we cannot differentiate from when using a placebo doesn't show that it will work predictably multiple times under similar conditions".
As a last result, all evidence would then point to having tried at least some of the measured and tested findings out and they failed. Because they failed then all that could result in homeopathy or other alternatives are people either grasping at straws or else clinging to unreal expectations. Okay. Understandable as mot people don't want to die at any time let alone in many of the circumstances revolving around protracted illness or devastating injury and the inherent pain an suffering found in each of them.
However, keeping it around out of vanity or a lack of acceptance of what is going to happen so then they spend all their remaining energy and time on it instead of living as fully as they can with what they have left isn't positive.
The real dangers are similar or the same as what's in the first article posted on the thread though, because fools like that woman do what she did to other kids n also adults who can no longer speak or form enough coherence to make their own medical decisions. She even admitted to her own ignorance at the trial, which tells me she may have an idea of the danger that relying on homeopathy poses, only now her kid is dead.
Maybe that isn't so much the focus but it should be. Her kid is dead now. He won't ever know or feel or think or learn, or fall in love, or get jilted only to find a hobby or artform or element of reality that drives him to success in other ways, won't run or cry or laugh or get excited at seeing an old friend, one he had for 30 years, come back from travel. He doesn't have 40 years anymore. Because he no longer exists, all down to what his mother "thought' would help because "some people find solace, comfort or positive benefit" from either an untested to see if it works substance or ones that are shown to have no long running or wide range effect at all.
I'm glad I never bothered much with adults or kids in terms of belief and how it forms. People are too stupid to rely on, and I'm frankly tired of seeing/hearing that we need to be ever so careful around the stupid because they might feel bad for allowing themselves to be that stupid. That woman, along with nearly every adult in a developed country, has ready access to the right information along with ready access to the tools of reason and empathy in-built for most humans right into their dna.
A 3 year prison sentence for depraved heart murder, or manslaughter or whatever it went down as is too short. She should be up for how ever many years on average he would have had if she wasn't his mother but that someone with some proper thought and compassion would have been able to offer him.
