Marley

“Such an honest depiction can only contribute to a deeper appreciation of this remarkable artist”...Time Out London

Entertainment Weekly singled out filmaker/director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland...Touching the Void) , noting that he “shows off his chops not by doing anything dazzling — the film is documentary prose, not poetry — but by treating Marley as a man of depth and nuance, of inner light and shadow.”

Movie Trailer:
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/20/friday-flicks-is-marley-the-documentary-of-t he-year

Here's one of the better reviews I've read, though I may be biased since the author is a close friend...and ya gotta love the name of the website :-)
http://goodtimessantacruz.com/index.php/good-times-cover-stories/3710-marley.htm l

We saw the movie last month at an advanced screening. It was a really well made and informative film with lots of great reggae music. What's not to like?
http://webtonic.info/discus/messages/1584/19222.html?1332691835

It received a glowing review in today's Washington Post. Am definitely looking forward to seeing it.

The New Yorker mag praised the Marley movie, though the reviewer said he was disappointed that not one of Marley's songs was allowed to play in full.

The soundtrack from the Marley movie is getting great reviews. Here are the songs. Some of the versions have not been released before:

Disc: 1
1. Corner Stone
2. Judge Not
3. Simmer Down
4. Small Axe
5. Mellow Mood
6. Stir It Up
7. Concrete Jungle
8. Crazy Baldheads
9. Natty Dread
10. Trenchtown Rock (Live at the Roxy Theatre)
11. Get Up Stand Up
12. Work

Disc: 2
1. Jammin (Live at One Love Peace Concert)
2. Exodus Dub (Kindred Spirit Dub mix)
3. No Woman, No Cry (Live at the Lyceum Show)
4. War - Live! At the Rainbow
5. I Shot The Sheriff (Live from the Lyceum)
6. Roots Rock Reggae
7. Three Little Birds
8. Real Situation
9. Could You Be Loved
10. One Love / People Get Ready
11. Redemption Song
12. High Tide, Low Tide

The movie is also now available through various outlets, including Google Play for $6.99: https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=mxbsLp3DuLE

Here's the list of outlets carrying it on demand, although DirecTV in my area is not currently carrying it:

iTunes: Movies (Search Titles)

Google: Rent from Google Play

AT&T UVerse: On Demand · Uverse Movies - All Movies

Cablevision:
Movies on Demand • Independent Films • Magnolia Pictures

Charter: Channel 1 (On Demand) - Movies • New Releases (Search Titles)

Comcast: On Demand • Movies • Indies & Foreign - Magnolia Pictures
On Demand • Top Picks • New Movies (Search Titles)
On Demand • Movies • Just In (Search TItles)

Cox: On Demand • Early Screening • In Theatres

DirecTV: Channel 1000 and 1100 (On Demand) • Movies • (Search Titles)

Dish Network: On Demand • Movies and More (Search Titles)

Playstation 3: Video • Playstation Store • Playstation Store • Studios • Magnolia Pictures (Search Titles)

Time Warner: On Demand • Movies on Demand • Early Screening (Search Titles)

Verizon FIOS: On Demand • Featured (Search Titles)

VUDU: Now Playing • Now Playing • (Search Titles)

Xbox Zune: Video Market Place • Zune • Featured (Search Titles)
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'Marley' Tells Songwriting Tales

Gleaner LINK:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120429/ent/ent4.html

Some of the tenderest moments of the documentary, Marley, are the vulnerabilities, when for example, from an early age up Nine Mile in the St Ann hills Bob (the later Tuff Gong) was teased for his mixed racial heritage...the Jorman (German) "red" bwoi...the outsider status sought a be-longing.
How rejected Bob must have felt, when at an early stage of his musical career, in little Jamdown, he sought out the "white" side of his family for financial and moral support, and they turned him away!
But out of hurt and dismissal, the psychological identification with the larger hurts of (hu)man-kind would solidify, and nurture his sensitive music with biblical exhortations: In his song, Cornerstone:

The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone-a; sing it brother
The stone that the builder refuse
Will always be the head cornerstone.

You're a builder, baby;
Here I am, a stone.
Don't you pick and refuse me,
'Cause the things people refuse
Are the things they should choose.
Do you 'ear me? Hear what I say!

Later, towards the end of the film, to see the interview by the German nurse who cared for him at a specialist clinic in Bavaria (Germany), to where he re-treated in a "last hope" mission to save his life as his physical energies were ebbing...What must Bob have been thinking and feeling about the nature of the cancer that had spread and riddled his body...this melanoma, which is a disease associated genetically with the "white" side of his family.

By this time, because of the cancer and treatments, Bob's dreadlocks had been falling out, and some of his wife-lovers (including Cindy B...his "official" Miss Universe) helped cut off the rest of his "weighty" hair, making Bob a literal baldhead without the wavering of his Rastafari beliefs.
Bob took on an almost childlike, receptively innocent appearance, and to hear his German nurse, who called him "Bobby", at this terminal stage of his life, is to feel his revolutionary sweetness, love and courage...His last concert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA), with several encores, in a terrible weakened state, is enough to take the entire Bob (Tuff Gong) forever to our hearts. Bob, the "healer" did say: one good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
His transcendent, trance-like, spirit-jumpy performances demonstrates the point.

The documentary ends with his calming everlasting words of looking back while living forward beyond his brief engagement, strivings and strife, in a the mythos of a Babylonian exile journeying to Zion and the promised land.
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Up-ward Bob, as you prophesied: Your "music fights against a System that teaches to live and die"...and lastingly, Your "Future Is Righteousness".

The Influence of Bob Marley's Absent, White Father

“My fadda was a guy yunno, from England here, yunno? Him was like…like you can read it yunno, it’s one o’dem slave stories: white guy get the black woman and breed her. He’s a English guy…I t’ink. Cos me see him one time yunno. My mother? My Mother African.” (Bob Marley, 1978)

...also evocative in the documentary is the young Bob Marley feeling the sting of rejection of being a fatherless child, and looking here and there for a symbolic father-and-son reunion in several mentors who would guide his path and detect his talents.
None was greater, in the overall sense, than his "ideal" fealty to the physically small statured, so-called King of Kings, Haile Selassi, Amharic for "Power of the Trinity", (born Tafari="one who is respected" Makonnen), later known as Ras ("head") Tafari, Emperor of Ethiopia, "heir to a dynasty that traced its origins to the 13th century, and from there by tradition back to King Solomon and Queen Makeda, Empress of Axum, known in the Abrahamic tradition as the Queen of Sheba".

It's is also note, in the film, that Bob's wife, Rita, converted to the Rastafari beliefs when Haile Selassie visited Jamaica in 1966 (Groundation Day) and while parading through the streets of Kingston, she saw what she perceived to be stigmata on the emperors palms as he waved to the crowds, similar to what would have appeared on Christ's hands at the crucifixion, suggesting to her and followers of the movement, that Haile Selassie was miraculously their messiah.

There is a lesson here for missing fathers who fail their children's care, solicitude needs, and up-bringing. Bob turned his quest into ambition, creativity and uni-vers-a-lizing...so many other fatherless children are psychically handicapped and fall by the wayside.

One Love...One Family...
...whole heap of bredren-sistren, maddahs-faddahs; aunties-uncles; and cousins in every yaahd...to keep!

Bob, described as shy around women, quite naturally went on to father 11 children with 7 partners, and according to legend and the documentary, without trying very hard, his charisma and sweet charms drew in the ladies to savour his natty dreadness...hence, unleashing the talents of his progeny on the world stage.

“My father was white and my mother black, you know. Them call me half-caste, or whatever.
Well, me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side nor the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white, who give me this talent.” Bob Marley

Dred Library Link:
http://debate.uvm.edu/dreadlibrary/gurtman02.htm

It is amazing the foolishness that persons will pass off as profundities in order to join a band wagon which is largely supported by the basest people in the world. Bob Marley was no genius.

Was just delighted to see it's available on Amazon Instant Video, and it was a big hit here at Filmfest DC.

Proud to be one of the drum and bass people (wink).

Wow Spooky Dude you are stirring up a pot or trying to mash ants belly or something.

Maybe no genius, granted. I doubt Bob ever used words like profundities or basest. However, maybe it is genius to have the ambition of "Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all. " Nuh idiot sinting dat.

I am sure many men may be jealous also of a man who fathered so many children with so many different women. As one baby mother stated she never liked it but couldn't hate him for it. Guessing that many men know they couldn't so measure thus this may cause a little Marley envy. Most woman are ready fi kill Matey but when the man is such a man women sometimes let them have their way.

As a Marley fan, to stick on topic this was a great doc. Learned some new things and heard some new versions.

And Marley a genius for sure!

Spooky D...we are fairly sure that your merry band of followers are just jolly about your artistic and musical tastes. Perhaps when Pablo Picasso "borrowed/quoted" forms, features and rhythms from African sculpture and design, in the early 20th century, to be at the forefront of an art movement memorialized as "Cubism", there were some Spooks there crying fraud-fake-impostor-defiler of manners-Base Rude Bwoi..At this late stage of Art History, when Picasso's work sells for top dollar to world-wide collectors/museums, and his revolutionary art is tied together with the visionary physics of Einstein-ian relativity, would there be much question about his "genius"?...Perhaps, yes.

Rolling Stone: An Arbiter of Musical Tastes Including Popular Genres, Jazz & Blues:
To talk only about Bob Marley's singing voice would negate what makes him one of the greatest voices of our time — why his voice is stamped in our history.
He sang about heavy ideas, and he put them out there so delicately and so lightly, with such a generous groove, a generous feel and a generous voice.
He didn't sing correctly; he wasn't trained, but he had a beautiful voice, a lot like one of my other favorite singers of all time, Marvin Gaye. If they had more similar accents and had sung in more similar styles, you'd hear it.

It's hard to separate his voice from what he was singing about. Bob Marley sang with a great deal of power — enough to shake the foundations of his country's government. A measure of a great singer is getting a message across, saying things that otherwise won't be heard.
And in a world that has ways of shutting down people that talk about peace and love, Bob Marley could get that message across and inspire us.

It's rare that something so serious and so beautiful as his music can rise as clearly to the top as he did. His voice is one of the most important inspirations of our time — he was the voice of oppressed people all over the world.

Rolling Stone Magazine:100 Greatest Singers: Bob Marley

www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231/bob-m arley-19691231

Redemption Song:
In 2004, Rolling Stone placed the song at #66 among The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the Top 20 Political Songs.

It is the final track on Bob Marley & the Wailers' ninth album, Uprising, produced by Chris Blackwell and released by Island Records. The song is considered one of Marley's seminal works, with some key lyrics derived from a speech given by the Pan-Africanist orator Marcus Garvey.

At the time he wrote the song, circa 1979, Bob Marley had been diagnosed with the cancer that later was to take his life. According to Rita Marley, "he was already secretly in a lot of pain and dealt with his own mortality, a feature that is clearly apparent in the album, particularly in this song".

Unlike most of Bob Marley's tracks, it is strictly a solo acoustic recording, consisting of Marley singing and playing an acoustic guitar, without accompaniment.

Thirty one years after Marley's death, his music is still being played with verve, and listened to, with attention, not just with "covers" in tiki bars, but in the consciousness of the message rising from the roots of the populace. And isn't it remarkable that out of the hills of our blessed parish of St Ann (likkle but tallawah), from a mere drop of life, both Marcus Garvey, who would spread the message of uplift-ment of the people, and Bob Marley would follow those specifics with an unimpeachable uni-versality?

Redemption Song

Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs,
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfill the Book.

Spooky D}...in the video which follows, might we be observing the "basest" of the Germanic tribe (possibly even a smidgen gene of Neanderthal hominid) absorbed in Bob Marley's entrancing performance in Dortmund?

Youtube Video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHgMD1S0bg

Video::Rihanna @ Time 100 Gala: Redemption Song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsumYqHcIpQ

Hey Zed, just wondering if you can change things up a bit. Maybe use different colors besides red blue and gree. Makes my eyes hurt after a while...

Spooky is right. Marley was just some guy who had nothing better to do than smoke pot and write songs. Oh yea, play football too. Must be rough to be able to just sit around all day smoking and playing a guitar. Get a job!~

"Feistey" indeed as well as in deed.

Sir/Madam, I suggest that you are simply trying to whip up trouble here by posting a contrarian statement. Apparently that's allowed here, though it does seem to reduce the usefulness of this string of messages.

Should you have intended your words to be serious, I would advise you to educate yourself about the man and his life, starting with his relationship with the freedom struggle in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. Watching the movie would be a good start.

Oh sweetness...Sophie just KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)-ed me. I hurt too...am going in the corner to play with my crayons. Boo Hoo!

Has the Spooky One laid down one of his greatest DUD-S?

Alpha, I don't get it. Z you were the one with the quote about beauty and its subjectivity, and I guess it is the same with 'genius'. From where I stand, sit, whatever, I don't see any genius in the 'great' Bob Marley. I guess you could say he was influential though {edited by TBNet}.

Can anyone clarify what type of cancer Bob had? I read in one of the above articles that he had melanomia but I'm not sure if that was what got him. Also, is it true that he converted to Christianity shortly before he died?

Lord Dude...I tend to want to believe that, besides the very serious and timely message and announcements that are displayed in this forum, there is much playful tongue-in-cheek-ness gwan.
What if some of these message-thrusts were actually hooked-up to a web cam, would we see a lot of smirking, gleeful delight and your twinkly smiling eyes, and not the expression of a scold?

From the Jesuit priest, who did yo's baptism at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kingston pouring Latin phrases upon said forehead comes a favourite saying: "De gustibus non est disputandum"
(Concerning tastes, there can be no argument!)

...to your point about the subjectivity of beauty or the rudimentary objectivity of the derived idea of genius (Latin: the guardian spirit of a person, spirit, inclination, wit, genius, literally 'inborn nature").
This seminal meaning of "genius" (which you can appreciate) has thus evolved to signify "Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art..."

Ergo, Exhibit A, B or C...: The Honourable RNM
...besides it took a great deal of discipline, study/reasoning for Bob to refine the genre of reggae (described beautifully in the documentary as relating to the human heartbeat), his insightful business acumen which bucked up against the "pure" intentions of Peter Tosh and his own Wailers, to create strains in his music, so as to evangelically reach out to a wider audience on every continent.
Chris Blackwell, of Island Records, no slouch in appraising genius/talent took one look...heard the vibrations, tapped into Bob's yearnings of praise & unity, and they did al-right.

SD... as you have reflected on other threads about, regretfully, "no spiritual in-sights", is there a suggestion that you may soon be partaking in a sacramental, medicinal, psycho-active herb (Bob's Bush) instead of your usual "adult beverage"?

Student, I believe the movie used the term "metastasized melanoma".

It did not mention a deathbed conversion to any religion

Bob Marley's Last Words to His Son Ziggy: "Money can't buy life."

After injuring a toe in a soccer game, which would not heal, he decided to see a doctor. Marley was diagnosed with melanoma, and an amputation of the toe was recommended.

As a devout Rastafarian, Bob Marley adhered strongly to the tenets of his religion, which include a belief that amputation is sinful.
A Bible verse that Rastafarians hold as very important is Leviticus 21:5 - "They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in the flesh." The first part of this verse is the foundation of the belief in the wearing of dreadlocks, and the last part is the basis for a belief that amputation (as well as other types of body modification) is sinful. Other verses, including those which refer to the body as a holy temple, may also influence this belief.

There is an additional tenet of Rastafarianism which is slightly more difficult for non-Rastas to understand, but which probably also influenced Marley's decision.
The belief is essentially that death is not a certainty, and that truly holy people will gain immortality in their physical bodies.
To acknowledge that death is a possibility is to make certain that it will come soon. It is believed that this is the reason that Bob Marley never wrote a will, either, which resulted in difficulty in dividing his assets after his death.

Before jumping all over Bob and his "bush doctors", recall that a rather prosperous and media-influential church, the Christian Scientists (the C S Monitor newspaper) also hold some rather restrictive tenets about medical intervention, and have gone to court to prevent such everyday procedures as blood transfusions.

For everybody else, and Bob, in hindsight, "Get Thee to a Doctor!"

World Music Link:
http://worldmusic.about.com/od/genres/f/BobMarleyDeath.htm

Two More Jamaica Herbs That Fight Cancer:
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120501/news/news4.html

Thank you for the response Reviewer. My questions however were not relative to the movie. My layperson's idea of melanomia is that it is a skin disease and it's puzzled me for a long time that skin cancer would have required amputation of a limb. The part about his conversion is an urban legend I've heard here and there over the years. Still, anyone knows if it's true or false? What say you z?

I don't know what Bob's diagnosis was Student. A melanoma is a type of skin cancer that easily spreads, or metastasizes, to other parts of the body. Thus complicating what was a condition of a usually small part of the skin.

Acral lentiginous melanoma...For you medical sleuths, is that the branding of cancer that would have been on Bob's Death Certificate? If so, it is a cancer that "occurs on non hair-bearing surfaces of the body which may or may not be exposed to sunlight".
Medical advice coming through the cracks in the wall say: "people who are susceptible to melanoma have to check their entire bodies regularly for the odd place a melanoma may begin, for instance, between the toes. Marley was half English and living a lot closer to the equator than most Brits do. Sun exposure ups melanoma risk in those vulnerable".

The urban legend that I heard repeated yesterday, in the coffee shop (not in Amsterdam, mind you), is that Bob was poisoned with a copper spike, carefully placed in his soccer shoe at the time that his home/studio, at 56 Hope Road ("Tuff Gong"), was invade and shot up. Legends, it appears, generate legendary magical deaths, and only can be felled with magical alloys or potions.

Thanks for the response z and t. I had a good chuckle regarding the Amsterdam "coffee shop". Since no one has addressed the conversion rumour directly, I assume it will remain thus.

Mr z the instructions contained in Leviticus was for the Priests, not for ganga smoking rastafaris. Obviously non rastas would find it difficult to believe that death is not a certainty, because it is outside the realms of belief...it is a known fact {edited by TBNet} that death is certain. There are other people who don't believe in going to a doctor, but that does not make the genius' stance any more rational. We are trying to elevate idiocy. Bob's popularity stems more from the novelty factor, both personally and the music. The lyrics with a few exceptions are not even understood by 90% of his fans,including some Jamaicans. Bob did very well for himself and stands head and shoulders above the clowns who are performing dance-hall 'music'! One Love, Rasta.

Bob's Earthly Estate... Chris Blackwell at a press conference at the Bob Marley museum discussing the fate of the Marley estate. (1992)...a lingering controversy?

BlessingsAllOverSeen Link:}
http://blessingsallover.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/chris-blackwell

A Cautionary Tale About Examining the Skin for Cancer and not Ignoring The Signs as Some Stupidness!

The shocking diagnosis of a malignant melanoma (Skin Cancer) was given to Bob Marley. He was advised that treatment would be to amputate the toe, to stop the cancer from spreading.

In Miami still in the summer 1977, the British diagnosis of malignant melanoma was confirmed to Bob Marley again. He was advised to get the toe amputated and possibly the right foot. Again he refused.

Why didn’t Bob Marley have the amputation? He cited religious beliefs about “not cutting the flesh”. However he allowed the famous orthopedic surgeon Dr William Bacon to do a surgical excision to “cut away” cancerous tissue on the toe and do a skin graft at Cedar’s of Lebanon Hospital (now University of Miami Hospital). He remained in Hospital one week and spent about three months recuperating in Miami. The procedure was deemed “a success”. But sadly it was not. The cancer in it virulent form began to spread through his body (metastasized).

This brings the question, why would Bob Marley get skin cancer on his toe? First we must remember that Bob was diagnosed with an Acral Melanoma. This type accounts for 70 per cent of melanoma in darkly pigmented individual or Asians. It typically occurs on non-sun exposed areas as the palm, the sole and mucosa and under the nails.
It is characterised by a dark mole or spot that can turn cancerous.

This can happen by repeated trauma to the area or for no reason at all. Studies have shown that darker skin people are more likely to present with advanced disease stage III -IV than whites who typically appear with stage I. This is exactly what happened in Mr Marley’s case. He presented with a skin cancer stage 3-4 on his toe.

He also was fair-skinned of a white father. Being fair-skinned is a risk factor for skin cancer. Melanoma can take years to spread. Most likely he had a pigmented dark mole under his right great toe nail, the continued playing of soccer traumatized the dark mole, which turned cancerous then into a sore. When his cancer was discovered (summer of 1977) the recommendation to amputate his toe would most certainly have saved his life. The surgical excision done and the skin graft (July 1977) was ineffective or simply too late.

...How does a malignant melanoma spread? It is generally agreed that melanoma cells spread via the lymphatic, the blood stream or both. Then it can affect the liver, the lungs, the brain or the bones.

...What is the treatment for Advanced Malignant Melanoma ?

According to the American Academy of Dermatology 2010 “No effective therapy exists at this time for metastatic disease to the internal organs”. Until effective therapy is developed the focus must remain on early detection and removal of the primary tumor or mole.

As his metastatic disease progressed, Bob Marley decided to die at home in Jamaica. The group chartered a flight for the trip home. While flying home to Jamaica his vital functions worsened, and the plane was directed to Florida. He was immediately admitted to Cedars of Lebanon Hospital and died May 11, 1981. His wife and mother were by his side.
He was said to weigh a shocking 82lbs on the day he died.

He received a state funeral in Jamaica May 21 1981, which combined Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafarian tradition. He was buried with his guitar, a soccer ball, a marijuana bud, a ring and a Bible.

Also how did he manage to survive so long with an advanced cancer? Was it his marijuana use? This is highly unlikely. According to studies it is difficult to predict outcomes for individual patients with melanoma.
We know he was a man of incredible stamina and drive.

LINK: Bob Marley::A Death by Skin Cancer
http://repeatingislands.com/2011/04/15/a-death-by-skin-cancer-the-bob-marley-sto ry

Spooky D...we were wondering when the question of your mortality would ARISE on this winding Marley/Rasta thread.

Do we still chat up what the Churchs' promises for our Eternal Life and what many believers would conceptualize of "what it means to die"? Are we constantly re-writing our own Book of Revelations in an a' la carte search for ANSWERS?}

For your ministerial consideration:
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

LINK: What Does the Bible Say About Death, Eternal Life and Heaven?
http://christianity.about.com/od/whatdoesthebiblesay/a/deathandheaven.htm

Maddah...Faddah...Where do my beliefs come from and how long will I hold onto them?...Chuh...doun badda mi...Ask Spooky!

Politics and Religion was the documentary, where was the music (copy rights of course). In all honesty it wasn't that great of a documentary and if it was not said that all people should unite and stop fighting one another it would almost come off as predigest (don't hate me on that one). Since I can remember his music has been a part of my life, inspired me to learn guitar and write my own music and there is no doubt helped to shape it as well but where was the music, oh right my record player (lively up your selves and don't be no drag)!LOVE ALL

Kind words and support do mean a lot when you are going thuorgh a crisis in life and ill health.May better days s=dawn upon him and the medical treatments help him live with better health.