Hi HaH,
I am so sorry about the things you and your family have been through due to the medical community. I often feel torn about these kinds of issues because God has shown me a lot of grace through medical intervention (one doctor saved my sight, another saved my life when my appendix burst and developed an infection, and another scorned the current system and went with a treatment he knew to be cheaper and time tested rather than what the salesmen were trying to give him free vacations to push.)
I have known people who went into the medical profession and at one time, I wanted to go into it myself, but agree that there is so much corruption behind the scenes that I'm sure I would have given up within the first year. Praise God for our Christian brothers and sisters who have the will to keep trying to fight the system from within.
May God give you peace and truth until you meet your beloved family members again!
I try very hard to walk the thin line of awareness vs. paranoia.
As for most media/film/audio, I remain very wary. I had a friend whose degree specialized in digital media and he said that all forms of recording are incredibly easy to manipulate and make up whatever people want others to see or hear.
For instance, he had a case in which two spouses were divorcing and fighting for custody over their children. One spouse had a substance abuse problem and had to submit regular recordings as proof that they were adhering to treatment. My friend who worked in media was able to prove that the recorded "evidence" had all been tampered with (the person was taking segments of their "good behavior," looping them continuously, and splicing them with just enough other footage to try to make the recordings look knew and recent.)
And these are just every day, normal people. I shudder to think of what means the media has access too.
I think of the "Deep Fakes" that are incredibly popular on the internet -- such as the one in which amateurs were able to make a young Mark Hamill's appearance in "The Mandalorian" look and sound 100 times better and more realistic than the pros who had millions of dollars at their dispersal. Unfortunately, I think technology has made our eyes and our ears some of the least reliable witnesses, unless we see the actual event unfold right in front of us (and even then, people often remember things incorrectly.)
As for Anne Heche, for whatever reason there are some people in the news who capture my attention and I feel a tug on my heart to learn more about them and pray for them.
If I remember right (I read this a long time ago, and of course, I take anything I read with a huge block of salt,) Anne's father was a preacher and she said (when she came out as Ellen's girlfriend) that she believed God made her famous so that she could be a voice for other gay/bi people. It made me sad to hear God's Word so badly twisted, and I have been praying for her ever since.
Anne also unfortunately seemed to have a history of insisting on driving even when she wasn't capable, and put others at risk because of it.
While it's completely possible that her death wasn't just an accident, if it really is a conspiracy, they picked the perfect person who lived in a manner that gave plenty of reasonable doubt.
Most of her history seems to point to a string of terrible choices, even when it put other's in harm's way (from the reports I've been reading, the accident that caused her death was another such incident, as she had drugs in her system, and crashed into a house.)
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