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tulipsandroses

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Wed Aug 6, 2025, 11:31 PM Aug 2025

When conspiracy kills - Anti vax influencer's daughter dies after rejecting chemo for coffee enemas [View all]

Paloma Shemirani: Brother recounts moment he found out his twin sister died after rejecting cancer treatment

The twin brother of a young woman who died of a preventable cancer after choosing to have coffee enemas instead of conventional treatment has recalled the moment he found out she had died.
Gabriel Shemirani says his sister Paloma was pressured to reject conventional treatment for her disease by their medical conspiracy theorist mother and father and he blames them for her death.

Instead, they convinced her to try an unproven “alternative treatment program” — once promoted by cancer conwoman Belle Gibson — which involved repeated coffee enemas about five times a day to “cleanse toxins” from her body.
Paloma, a 23-year-old Cambridge graduate, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and died in the Royal Sussex County Hospital on July 24 in 2024.

The actions of her mother Kay ‘Kate’ Shemirani, a disgraced former NHS nurse and rabid anti-vaxxer, is being scrutinised by an inquest into Paloma’s death by the Kent and Medways Coroners Court.
Gabriel has been campaigning to have his parents held to account and is pushing for legal changes to protect patients from medical misinformation. “I couldn’t save my sister, but there’s still time to save others,” he told The Sun.
People are dying. This needs to stop.”
“The law is so out of date, that we can have a woman that’s killed her daughter still claiming to be a nurse.
“I believe my sister was being coerced. It’s conspiratorial coercion when you convince her the elites are going to kill them, big pharma’s going to kill them, even the doctors at the hospital are going to kill them.”


https://thenightly.com.au/world/paloma-shemirani-brother-recounts-moment-he-found-out-his-twin-sister-died-after-rejecting-cancer-treatment--c-19597693

How awful. Losing your twin sister and then having to go after your own parents because they are a danger to society.
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What a terrible and preventable situation. My heart goes out to her twin brother over this heartbreaking loss. CaliforniaPeggy Aug 2025 #1
My brother in law is a rabid anti-vaxxer. He killed his father with that nonsense. Coventina Aug 2025 #2
I'm so sorry for your loss. What a nightmare. yardwork Aug 2025 #10
I have no sympathy for Darwin Award winners. AZ8theist Aug 2025 #3
Yes. In the U.S. we put such a person in charge of HHS. yardwork Aug 2025 #11
Knew a family who fell for the "natural way to beat cancer". Xolodno Aug 2025 #4
Yup. Not everything that's natural is good for us. Heidi Aug 2025 #9
God that all natural stuff is nuts jfz9580m Aug 2025 #18
Anti-vaxxers are now running the fucking show and denying the public access to mRNA vaccines, as well as any Karasu Aug 2025 #5
"... this regime wants to kill as many Americans as possible." Wednesdays Aug 2025 #17
If people are interested in an in-depth look at this, the BBC has a podcast series about it muriel_volestrangler Aug 2025 #6
Deliberately letting someone die of a treatable disease is murder by any other name. DFW Aug 2025 #7
Then RFK, Jr. is committing mass murder. yardwork Aug 2025 #12
I'd put it slightly differently. DFW Aug 2025 #13
Good points. yardwork Aug 2025 #14
What a waste of a young life. EndlessWire Aug 2025 #8
Even sadder, cancer treatments were improving by leaps and bounds. yardwork Aug 2025 #15
Exactly! For example, immunotherapy saved Heidi Aug 2025 #16
It's weird that this "alternative healing" bullshit used to be popular with some on the left. progressoid Aug 2025 #19
It's *still* popular with many on the left. Heidi Aug 2025 #20
Ugh. That's a shame. progressoid Aug 2025 #23
"The Enlightenment was a great idea. Too bad it didn't take." Torchlight Aug 2025 #21
Ivermectin Johnny2X2X Aug 2025 #22
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