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23-year-old who died of cancer after refusing chemo had ‘five coffee enemas a day’
New York Post ^

Posted on 07/30/2025 12:24:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A 23-year-old British woman who died after refusing conventional cancer treatment was allegedly undergoing “five coffee enemas a day” under the care of her mother, a controversial health influencer.

Paloma Shemirani’s brother made the claim this week during an inquest into her death, which came seven months after doctors told the Cambridge graduate she had an 80% chance of surviving non-Hodgkin lymphoma with chemotherapy, according to the BBC.

Instead, she pursued an unproven alternative cancer regimen promoted by her mother, Kate Shemirani, who claimed to have used it successfully in the past. Paloma died of a heart attack on July 24 last year, caused by an untreated tumor. In written statements before her death, she denied having cancer at all, calling the diagnosis an “absurd fantasy, with no proof,” per the BBC. She also expressed fears that chemotherapy might leave her infertile.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer; chemo; heartattack; medicine
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To: Slicksadick
Yes, infertile but well caffeinated with a clean rectum. And dead.

21 posted on 07/30/2025 12:37:26 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: PGR88

Yeah. She died of a heart attack. I’m sure all the caffeine had nothing to do with it. /s


22 posted on 07/30/2025 12:37:44 PM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: nickcarraway

No. Please. Don’t

I clicked the thread and her eye filled the whole screen of my phone and I scare-jumped.

😁


23 posted on 07/30/2025 12:41:13 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: Salvavida

My dad is going through cancer and doing ok.

He’s doing some of the stuff you list.

Chemo didn’t help much and he gave it up.


24 posted on 07/30/2025 12:43:43 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe, but that was probably just for fun.


25 posted on 07/30/2025 12:44:19 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: PGR88

Medical question: if you use coffee for an enema, how can you tell when you’re cleaned out?


26 posted on 07/30/2025 12:44:42 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: nickcarraway
“She also expressed fears that chemotherapy might leave her infertile.”

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Well, she is infertile after the coffee treatment also - she’s dead.
Dead is worse than infertile in my opinion.

27 posted on 07/30/2025 12:45:52 PM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: mikey_hates_everything

“She forewent a treatment with an 80% success rate to pump coffee up her ass instead? At least do both if she’s so hung up about the coffee.”

Yeah she was young and had a chance to beat it with the proper treatment. She chose poorly.


28 posted on 07/30/2025 12:45:59 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: nickcarraway

Inuendos can be devestating.


29 posted on 07/30/2025 12:58:06 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: plain talk
“She chose poorly.”

Or math and statistics impaired. Wouldn’t be surprised at that these days.

30 posted on 07/30/2025 12:59:50 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder what name was written on her enema bag


31 posted on 07/30/2025 1:01:37 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: Salvavida

What is nutification?


32 posted on 07/30/2025 1:01:38 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: nickcarraway

A divorcee in Texas gave her alcoholic ex a sherry enema instead of using a beer and it killed him. He was using beer enemas because his throat was messed up from drinking too much alcohol. This was his way of getting a buzz. She was convicted of murder or manslaughter. He must not have had hemorrhoids.


33 posted on 07/30/2025 1:02:08 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: Salvavida

Nutify meaning lots of nuts?


34 posted on 07/30/2025 1:08:46 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nickcarraway

A very important element of the html tag for posting images is the size tag. You can use ‘width=400’ for example.


35 posted on 07/30/2025 1:10:14 PM PDT by fr_freak (So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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To: alternatives?

Sorry, but why is Sherry worse than beer? Because of the higher alcohol content? Or something else?


37 posted on 07/30/2025 1:10:53 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: nickcarraway

“ She also expressed fears that chemotherapy might leave her infertile.”

Have your eggs saved before treatment starts.


38 posted on 07/30/2025 1:14:21 PM PDT by HollyB
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Parachuting coffee. Speechless.

Cream and sugar?

39 posted on 07/30/2025 1:16:11 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature

She could have; she chose not to as an opposition defiance type of statement. No one was going to tell her to take chemo and admittedly feel awful and sicker for a time. RIP.


40 posted on 07/30/2025 1:16:36 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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