The Achievment of Life

Plans were made to tour with Stevie Wonder in America that winter, however Bob’s toe injury worsened and he collapsed while jogging in NY’s Central Park.In July 1977, Marley was found to have melanoma , a form of malignant melanoma, in a football wound. on his right big toe. Marley refused amputation, because of the Rastafari belief that the body must be "whole." His cancer spread through his entire body. He fought it for eight months taking treatment at the clinic of Dr. Joseph Issels in Bavaria (Germany), whose treatment went with Marley’s beliefs (partly based on avoidance of certain foods, drinks and other substance).Issels’ treatment was controversial and non-toxic and, for a time anyway, Bob’s condition seemed to stabilise. Eventually, however, the battle proved too much. At the start of May Bob Marley left Germany for his Jamaican home, a journey he did not complete. He died in a Miami hospital on Monday May 11, 1981.In April 1981, Marley was awarded Jamaica’s Order Of Merit, the nation’s third highest honour, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the country’s culture.