thalweg, the people who end up dead as are those who ignore what others in the cohort are telling them. It seems to be a sort of conspiracy of deafness.
Why would someone terminally ill with liver cancer, beyond all hope of any recovery through conventional means (having had three doses of chemo, and had the liver excised to check that it was inoperable), or faith, decide not to try the bicarb? Having checked it out on the web and read/seen the testimonies of as many people as you care to read about? Having heard first hand that it does work, and may work for him?