Do you want to live to a hundred, if living to a hundred means you’d lost your basic living abilities? This, is the question to consider here! From the Newspapers, translated…
When I saw the topics of the articles needed, it’d immediately reminded me of my father-in-law who’s asleep on the couch, he’s the oldest person that’s still living in our region, an elderly about to hit one hundred.
Since I married my husband, my father-in-law had retired, he’d cared very much about eating healthy, although he’d had multiple tugs-of-war with death, but with his will to live, he’d made it past every single trial. Everybody was envious of him, said that it was because he’d done something wonderful in a previous life, and called him, “a Blessed Man”.
And still, he couldn’t hide the sorrows he’d felt, everybody he knew, his wife, his companions, even a younger love who’s twelve years junior to him had all,, passed on, he’s the only one left on earth, he’d felt that loneliness.
Madam Soong May-Ling, sighed before she’d died, “Why is it, that I’m still alive?” hinting that “It’s better to live an amazing life than a long life”. If it’s only the breath the remained, and all your other vital organs had failed, and you’d relied on the meds, and other people to take care of you from day to day, being alive becomes a torture, an endless abuse, could this be a blessing?
After my father-in-law retired, he’d moved in with us, and, I’d watched, as he became frail and elderly, his aging touched me the most; and now, my husband and I are going towards the beginning of old age, and we’d decided, to take my father-in-law’s life as an example to us, that we can choose the length of our own lives, and we’d reminded one another, “If something happens to us, then, we don’t waste any extra medical resources.”
My father-in-law who’s living on our couch now, when he’d opened up his eyes, he’d looked over at the clock and, from his half-dazed looks, I’d tried, to read how helpless he must be feeling, how come the time passed so slowly?
This, is from the observations, seeing her father-in-law not do anything else but lying on the couch, staring at that clock on the wall made this woman realized, that having a long life is not as important as having a good quality of life.
Life, the Obstacle Course 