(This article was originally produced by Sir Films: dushetv)
cancer.
Last year, 18.1 million new cancer patients were added worldwide, with Asia accounting for 48%;
Meanwhile, 9.6 million patients die a year, with Asia accounting for 57%.
The data is scary.
Of the 57 percent of Asians who died, there was an 85-year-old Taiwanese named Fu Daren.
In 2018, Fu Daren, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for a long time, went to Switzerland in June 2018 accompanied by his family and was euthanized with the assistance of doctors, ending his life.
Last week, Fu Daren's dying video was exposed online.
If you haven't seen it, it is recommended to take a look.
——No matter how shocking the movie is, it is inevitable to lose its color in front of it.
In Fu Daren, Sir did not see bravery.
It's dignity.
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Who is Fu Daren?
Former basketball players, legends of the sports anchor world, and Ali, Pele, Yao Ming and other sports giants of all ages have tapped on the shoulder.
Playing basketball we call it "cap", Hong Kong and Taiwan people say "cover hot pot", this word he invented.
The old man's ancestral home is Shandong, and the biggest gossip in his life is that he has two wives and a lover.
However, in the face of advanced pancreatic cancer, legends are all clouds.
Because he could not bear to insert more and more catheters on his body, Fu Daren decided to go to Switzerland for euthanasia on June 7 last year.
He spent NT$3 million on his savings, becoming the world's first Asian cancer patient to be euthanized in Switzerland.
This is a real death tape.
In the spacious and bright living room, in the company of many family members, the old man drank the "poison" four times, and gradually, lying on his side in the arms of his son, stopped breathing.
The procedures were neat, the atmosphere was peaceful, the deceased was calm, and the family respected, Sir was the first to see the death executed in addition to the warning order of a terrorist organization.
There is no sense at all that this is performing death.
but.
Unexpectedly, this death is full of controversy.
The highest message from netizens:
Dying with dignity, dying happily, is not a relief
The second one that follows is:
Sometimes it is felt that legalizing euthanasia is also beneficial, but it is feared that the elderly will be euthanized
Emotional vs rational, the conclusion is often contradictory.
Should a foreseeable life end like this?
Anyone has his opinion, and no one can answer in place of the bearer of death.
In the face of death, a black hole that makes everything lose value, is the answer to the category too frivolous?
Perhaps, what we should build more is a space for dialogue, a space for reflection.
Old rules.
Or speak through the movie.
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The Dying Spring.
A primary guide on euthanasia, a "green book" for terminally ill patients.
The title literally translates into French, "Hours in the Spring."
These hours refer to the time of euthanasia.
What about spring?
Waiting for the day of euthanasia?
The story is simple.
The old lady Juve (Helen Vincent) is nearly 80 years old, her spirit is still tough, and she can still see the stubbornness of her youth.
After her wife and children left these years, her life became more and more regular, cleaning, cooking, puzzles, and the daily groundhog day general button cycle.
Looking at it, you will find that all the "loops" are originally meant to resist the suffering of a subjective avoidance.
Her failed son, Alain (Vincent Linton).
Alain, who looked like Mel Gibson who had picked up a gun without bullets, looked very sad.
"The Dying Spring" begins with Alain regaining his freedom, at the age of 50, released from prison.
People do not get out of prison until they are middle-aged, and cruelly say that they are half a beat late for making waste firewood.
The film debunks his feud with his mother in a sharp but easily overlooked detail.
Alain's occupation is a garbage sorter.
And the mother, Juve, has a mild cleanliness habit.
It is conceivable that after living together, his mother abandoned him from outside and inland.
Cleaning, cooking, puzzles, her Marmot Day has one more project – hating her son.
He was suspected of smoking.
I think he's dirty and lazy.
Another sharp but easy to overlook detail.
The son, Alain, confessed in front of his old neighbor that his mother felt ashamed of giving birth to himself.
As soon as the camera panned, the old lady did wipe her face seriously in the bathroom.
But as the story unfolds, Sir finds that it's not like it's going on, it's a countdown.
One night, Alain was looking for medicine and stumbled upon a swiss euthanasia agency declaration form, the declarant, mother Juventus.
Alain just knew—"
It turned out that the mother had always had a leprosy on her collarbone, which developed into a tumor a few years ago, and the tumor became cancerous again, and a while ago it "broke" the brain.
Cancer, the death penalty of the mother in advance.
If you give up chemotherapy to take medicine, or enter palliative care, then next, Juve will begin to meet the complications of memory loss, dementia, incontinence, cerebral infarction and other complications.
It turned out that the mother's cleanliness habits, wiping the home like a new house every day, washing her face more diligently than the little girl, were actually demonstrating with the "fate caused by the boil".
Do you want to kill the old lady?
OK.
But you want the old lady to die like an idiot with a grin on her face.
No way.
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Watching "The Dying Spring", many people will think of the Austrian director Michael Haneke's "Love".
It is also a movie that "the process is as light as a feather, and the ending is as heavy as Tarzan".
Like "The Dying Spring", the first two hours of "Love" maintained a polite illusion until that "great reversal" arrived.
His wife suffered a stroke and was paralyzed in half.
Day after day, her husband took care of her in every detail.
Eating, drinking, pulling, sprinkling, except once I really couldn't stand giving my wife a slap.
That's also the wife's "fault", she is a patient, she should drink water but not drink.
But we were all "cheated" by our husbands.
The last few minutes cannot be avoided.
PS. There are spoilers
At first, the husband still took good care of his wife as usual, and the wife couldn't help but cry out because of the pain, so the husband touched her with his hand and told her about each other's past...
Gradually, the wife's breathing slowly calmed down.
suddenly.
The husband grabbed a pillow next to the bed and covered his wife's face resolutely, and the wife's feet were struggling, but the husband did not hesitate, and his whole body was pressed over...
Until the other party did not move.
Many people don't understand why their husbands suddenly blackened.
How did a 24-year-old husband become a murderer of his wife?
Sir answered with another question.
Why, in the face of her daughter's visits, both the wife and the husband chose not to see.
Because there is no dignity.
Instead of living ugly, it is better to die noblely.
So, at the end, the husband's murder of his wife actually murders three objects.
One, the wife.
Second, the love between him and his wife.
Third, he imagined, the love with his wife (that is, part of himself).
That's where Haneke's coldness lies.
Haneke's honesty also lies in this.
whereas.
If "Love" exposes the hypocrisy of love, then what "The Spring of Death" breaks is the stubbornness of love.
Towards the end, Juve chose euthanasia.
He first took a glass of antiemetics, and then, it was 15 minutes of last words.
Until the mother and son look at each other at this moment.
Sir reacted to the most amazing choreography of the whole movie.
It turns out --
Alain has returned home again since dog poisoning, accompanied his mother to the doctor, accompanied his mother to receive the Euthanasia Society, accompanied his mother to eat the last few days of food...
In the last third of the entire movie, Dan Fan is in the same frame as his mother, Alain, without saying a single line to his mother!
Except for this sentence -
Isn't he sad?
He was sad.
It's just that I rehearsed the great drama of reconciliation a hundred times in my heart, but I never said it.
Similarly, the mother deliberately let Alain see the euthanasia application form and deliberately poisoned the dog to let her son go home, which also implied that she also cherished this affection.
Poor thing, she couldn't say it either.
The end of the movie.
The mother, who drank two bottles of poisonous water, was breathless and sleepy, and finally let her unload her tough armor.
She couldn't stand it.
She began to hold her son, kiss him, and say to him over and over again: I love you, child, I love you, child...
But it was too late.
This "love", we waited 108 minutes, they waited for a lifetime.
And as soon as it is spoken, the love is gone.
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In Sir's view, whether it is "The Dying Spring" or "Love", the real thing about them is that they do not regard death as an enemy.
In these stories, death is not exactly black despair.
It also has expectations, and calls, and self-reflection.
It can even be said that death is a catalyst for the purification of the meaning of life.
As the saying goes, we are born in the unknown, but we know death.
But does this say the other way around—
Unknown death, unknown life.
Don't get me wrong, Sir is not encouraging death or euthanasia (after all, the circumstances of the country are different, and the circumstances of each family are different).
3 years ago, there was an issue of "Strange Story".
Probably the most special issue in history.
From the moment the first debater stood up to tell his own story, the audience was in tears.
No matter what the positive side or the opposite side, no matter what point of view you hold, whether you are telling a story or using logic, you will be incited by your teammates and even your opponents.
In this issue of "Strange Story", the screen special effect subtitles are slowly coming, walking slowly, there is no funny dubbing, and even the score is not wanted.
The theme of this issue is called "Should we encourage the critically ill to live?" ”
That's right.
The matter of life and death parting, there is no referee in itself, how can there be victory or defeat?
Mentor Cai Kangyong said it precisely.
Our view of "death" is the lack of exercise.
Some people lie in hospital beds for a long time
Just over a month
My words of encouragement are exhaustive
We know that everyone dies
Why we talk about death
The whole person is confused
We China
Didn't like to practice very much
Isn't it?
None of our education, our joys, nor the material experiences to which we are accustomed, will tell us how we will face death.
It doesn't matter if it exists outside the liuhe.
Usually, don't say death, even the harmonic sound of "death" is forbidden.
In Guangdong, many high-rise buildings do not have a fourth floor, because "four" is equivalent to death.
Friends, family dinner, can not put chopsticks on the rice, because this shape is like a grave.
Even the details disclosed in the domestic high-scoring documentary "Life" -
Some patients' families came to the hospice ward and said that this ward was very good and beautifully decorated. There will be other family members who will respond: What is the use of good, to come to such a ward is to wait for death...
Opposite the hospital is a residential building, but if you look closely, many people have a mirror hanging on the outer wall of their homes.
Because in their eyes, death is taboo, and the hospital is very obscure.
They had to use a mirror to bounce back the obscurity that the hospital had passed on to them.
This is our attitude towards death.
Can't talk about it.
Talk, you will remember, remember, will find you.
Unlucky.
The question is, after a long time of hiding, will we not "die"?
Or can we get rid of the fear of "death"?
Further, this avoidance has substantially harmed every living person.
How many families usually do not pay attention to the relationship between parents, husband and wife, the cultivation of parent-child relationship, and wait until one party really has an accident, and then regret it.
This, will not be too late.
Practicing death is not approaching death.
To practice death is to learn how to face death:
Learn to say goodbye.
Learn to miss at the right time.
Learn how to enjoy life without you.
"In Life" describes such an old man.
The elderly Wang Mingchang was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
He was well aware of his illness and was already prepared for death, and the problem of handling the aftermath had been clearly explained.
At the beginning of his admission, he told his relatives and doctors.
He loves musical instruments, and even if he is terminally ill and interested, he will pick up the gourd wire and blow it for a while.
Every Sunday morning, he and his wife would go to a fixed place for Cantonese morning tea, and when he got sick, he would switch to lunch tea.
He told his family that after death everything would be done to Jane.
No memorial service
There is no spiritual hall
No funeral fees will be charged
For him, ritual is important, ritual is more important, the length of life is important, and the thickness of life is equally important.
Look at Sir —"
Death to him is more like an anchor of life.
It anchors how we should soberly and firmly seek love, define love, find meaning, define meaning.
Death is not the defeat of life.
No love, no hate, no love, no sense of living is.
PS. The "Dying Spring", "Love", and "In Life" mentioned in the article are all good films, and it is recommended to watch
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