After falling ill yourself, you’d come to understand, the meanings of life, from the Front Page Sections, written by a lecturer of a university here, believe it or don’t, translated…
The senior sportscaster, Dar-Ren Fu because he was overcome with serious illness, he’d sent a letter to the president, urging the “Euthanasia” amendment to get passed more quickly. I’d recalled my elderly sister who’s in her eighties right now, after six surgeries, she’s still experiencing the hard healing processes of the surgeries, she’d been overcome with three serious illnesses, just this year, she’d gone under the knife for major surgeries TWICE already, lost nearly thirty pounds, and, she was able to get through it, with her children’s, her sisters’ and brothers’ prayers.
elderly people, fighting for their rights to die here, not my photograph
My older sister fought very bravely, and hoped for the futures, she is living for her children, her siblings, as well as herself too. My older sister didn’t try to evade her own illness, practiced yoga, calligraphy, I-Ching, learned how to read fortunes, percussion instruments, as well as cooking too, she’s fulfilling up her life, and making me, her younger brother, very moved by what she’s doing.
Remembering back to 1990, Typhoon Gloria, when my mother was in the hospital for her surgeries, as the skies turned white, I looked out from her room, there was someone in a yellow raincoat, with a farmer’s hat, walking in the strong winds and rain, at which time, my mother’s attending physician came in, and said, that the man was actually a patient, because of intestinal obstructions, he’d had operations to get rid of almost ALL of his intestines, that after he ate, other than lying down to sleep, “in order to live, he must keep on walking along.” After hearing, I’d fallen silent, after I came to, I’d used the man’s excuse, to give my mother the encouragements she’d needed.
There were two hospitalizations for surgeries in my mother’s elderly years, and, my mother had slowly, lost her will to live. There was a man in my mother’s neighboring room, he’d gone out to fix his roof in the typhoons, and, the powerlines fell on his back, and so he can only lie face down on the bed, and his body was lifted up by the metal frames. There was another man, who’d gone out to fix up his property in a typhoon, he’d accidentally fallen onto the high-voltage powerlines, had his limbs all amputated, was wheelchair bound, and needed a rope to keep himself from falling off his wheelchair, and, as these two men had these serious hardships in life, they were still, sitting together, smoking, and engaging in conversations, it’d surprised me, and we’d used these examples, to encourage my mother, and, my mother gave that nod of agreement which hardly ever happened.
here’s how the U.S. looks on this issue, from online…
From my views, although the sportscaster had already gone past the fears of dying, and readied himself to die, but the verses of filial piety stated, “Everything we are, we owed, to our parents, and we shouldn’t damage our bodies, because that would be not giving our parents enough respects”. And so, euthanasia, in my opinion, is the WORST way that someone can do her/his parents wrong! And, if you still have life, you will live out your years, why not, design a “third life” for oneself?
Yeah, uh, apparently, you’d NEVER been seriously ill, like those patients with terminal illnesses like cancer and what not, that, is why you can say this so easily, and, maybe, it’s based off of your own life’s experiences and the lives of others around you, that you’d gained this view about euthanasia, but, don’t you think, that you should, at LEAST, RESPECT others for their choices to die, after all, they’re the ones, being tortured by their illnesses of cancer, dementia, or whatever………
Life, the Obstacle Course 