America as food supplements. Le Perlier also told me that the incidence of specific illnesses in France and some other European countries lessened during the next year of 1996 until, under pressure from the international pharmaceutical industry, the government of France in support of its pharmaceutical industry took direct action to cut off supplies of Beljanski’s supplements to the public. As a result, people marched in the streets of Paris and other cities in France to protest the unavailability of the botanicals.
Over time, the political newspaper, Minute, fell into a difficult financial situation so that its bills went unpaid. In mid-2000, Minute declared bankruptcy and went out of business. During our interview the political journalist explained these economic troubles happened because the Republic of France eliminated the opposition political voice in the newspaper.
Attempting to cope with his newspaper’s upsetting financial plight by seeking investors, borrowing money, holding off creditors, conducting negotiations, writing dynamic columns where possible, and doing much more, Monsieur Le Perlier severely felt the stress of his newspaper’s difficulty. It seriously weighed on him. He felt acute fatigue which sent him to bed and devastated his production as a reporter.
Simultaneous with the periodical’s bankruptcy and his own loss of work, the journalist confronted an ironic twist of fate. He was diagnosed with rectal/colon cancer, which is the fourth most deadly malignancy affecting Frenchmen. There was no doubt about his diagnosis and its severity. Monsieur Le Perlier (M. Le Perlier) found it necessary to call upon his list of valuable contacts with prominent people, including those in medical care. He needed help and called in his markers.
“I visited in Paris with France’s national administrator of health who did me a personal favor and referred me to the best and most authoritative expert on colon and rectal cancer in the whole country at that time,” Le Perlier told me. “It was medical school professor, Jean Denis, M.D. At his cancer clinic, after my having undergone a massive amount of diagnostic laboratory and clinical evaluations, I asked Dr. Denis to relate the full details of my health. ‘Please tell me the truth and pull no punches,’ I said to the professor.
“Unceremoniously Dr. Denis sat me down in a chair at his desk and with kindness explained that I had just three more months to live, and they would be absolute hell on earth. He stated, ‘Perhaps you will be lucky in that God will take your life sooner so that you won’t suffer quite so long.’”
No Standard Medical Treatment Exists
Le Perlier continued, “Dr. Denis explained that there was no medical treatment for me because my rectal/colon cancer was very advanced and had metastasized (when the cancer spreads to new sites in the body) throughout my gut. Any available strong treatment would likely kill me before my cancer totally disabled me,” the journalist affirmed. “The doctor added, ‘Performing surgery on you will let you survive for just a short time longer, and this you’ll be doing while carrying a plastic bag attached to your bowel wall (called a colostomy bag), and the bag will need to be emptied periodically. It would be an awful lifestyle which I do not recommend.’
“At the time I had been living on the outskirts of Paris, and this I needed to change. Therefore, I left my wife and children behind, moved out of our home in my small country town and rented a city apartment on the ground floor. This first floor flat was more appropriate to accommodate my death for its ease of moving my body to the mortuary,”
Le Perlier explained. “My legal and financial affairs were set into the best possible order manageable. I prepared my mind and emotions to accept death which I anticipated would arrive shortly. My abdomen was giving me severe pain, and I welcomed death so that the pain would stop.
“And then