It would seem that this instance of a statistical occurrence (brain cancer) which happened to one person out of billions was mistaken to be the will of some god. It appears as though two people died as a result of putting folklore ahead of scientific knowledge. What if science had help the mother live for a decade or more through successful chemotherapy? Would she perhaps have contributed in continuing to raise her five other kids? I don't ask out of spite of religion, I obviously feel very sorry about the whole thing and for a genuinely loving family. I'm just contemplating a reasonably possible, far more joyous outcome which may have happened if the initial approach to a solution had been different.