Because he’d lost his young daughter to cancer, he’d gotten this deep understanding of life, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
“We should start the terminally ill children care programs”, the founder of Booklife Publishers, Chien, who’d experienced the loss of his dearly beloved daughter stated, that children’s terminal care program can allow the families that lost a young child to finally be at peace.
“Although it was, twenty-eight years ago, but now as I’d recalled, I’d still felt the pains”. Chien has a son and a daughter right now, but, in truth, he had, three children, his eldest daughter died at the age of five, because of a rare condition.
He said, his daughter has a rare kind of optical degeneration, started showing the symptoms when she was just two, before she died, because she was having difficulties breathing, and he was unwilling to get the hospital to stop treatment, he and his wife, for twenty-four hours, took turns, holding up their daughter’s chin, so she could breathe more easily.
Recalling the days before his daughter died, Chien said, that every time the nurses sucked out the mucus from his daughter’s throats, there would be blood, and, his own heart bled too, and, whenever he saw his child frown, he’d felt the pains. Although his daughter was ill a long time, but as the hospital staff lifted her into the ICU for resuscitation, he couldn’t accept it, and started screaming outside the ICU, “Which doctor she’d died under the care of, I shall sue that person!”
Back then, other than finding an around-the-clock caretaker for his child, he and his wife took turns looking after their daughter, and, as the doctor wanted to perform a tracheostomy, to shave her head, he wouldn’t allow them to, “I want my daughter to wake up pretty”; but the child was, lying in bed, without consciousness, and lived off the feeding tubes, and needed tubes inside of her lungs, to get the mucus out, as well as the catheter, after a few more months of torture, she’d still, died.
He’d stated, that back then, he’d just become a father, and he felt that strong emotional bond, believed, that so long as he worked hard, his daughter can be saved, that so long as he worked hard, the heavens will give him back his baby girl, but in the end, it was, all, for naught.
Chien said, after his daughter died, he’d spent a long time in mourning, trapped by his own sorrows, that every time he’d heard another child, sounding like his own daughter, he felt he was, going crazy; then, he’d used reading, along with the social supports of his friends, started thinking about the matter of life and death.
“After so many years, thinking back to what I’d put her through, it wasn’t, good for her one bit.” Chien stated, that after his daughter died, he’d published endless volumes on life and death, and handed the books out to people for free, wanting them to be prepared for death beforehand.
So, this father with regrets of not allowing his own young daughter to die, is now, advocating for quality of life instead of quantity of life, and, this, was the conclusions he’d come to on his own, from losing his own young daughter to illness.