"When someone die|s alone, my work begins." - "The Relic Sorter"

"When someone dies alone, my job begins." - "The Relic Sorter"

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Hello everyone, the update time of this episode,

It's near the Qingming Festival,

Today, Almond Lu and everyone discuss the preciousness of life.

The title of the book I read with you today is "Relic Sorter".

Almond Lu 4 star recommended.

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This book is officially announced

"Relic Sorter", these five words will make people stunned. The book was the bestseller of the year in South Korea. The popular Korean TV series of the same name has also received good reviews. Now, with the Chinese Simplified edition of the newly released "Relic Sorter", let's take a look at the tear-jerking and thought-provoking stories in the book.

This book is both a record and memoir of the work of a relic sorter, as well as a life-and-death apocalypse dedicated to everyone. From the perspective of a relic sorter, we can deeply observe the road that each deceased life has traveled, feel their joys and sorrows, and trigger our discussion of life and death and the meaning of life.

The authors say: "When someone dies alone, my work begins. ”

The author of this book is engaged in a special sorting work that is not known, and is specifically responsible for sorting out the scene of the deceased. From the work process of "cleaning the room for the deceased", we observe life and death from a special perspective, especially the phenomenon of "lonely death", and think about life and death and the meaning of survival by exploring life and death.

13 special on-site cleaning records, 11 in-depth thinking essays, statements of true stories, plus discussions on life and death, are profound and touching. This book can make people re-examine their own lives, but also give people the courage and strength to face life.

The author, Kim Wan, was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Busan. Specializing in poetry at university, he worked in the publishing and pop industries, and in order to become a professional writer, he began to live in the countryside in his thirties. Since then, he has been interviewing and writing in Japan, and he has been exposed to the profession of relic sorting artist, which has greatly touched him. Especially after the Fukushima earthquake in Japan in 2011, Kim saw all kinds of tragic deaths and decided to spend the rest of his life thinking about the proposition of "life and death".

After returning to Korea, Kim completed his job as a relic sorter and founded Hardworks, a special cleaning service company specializing in the collection of relics for the deceased. In this book, he records what he saw, heard, felt, and thought after becoming a relic sorter.

The translation of this book is: Meng Ruihan, Major in Applied Korean at Korea University, and Master of Arts in Korean Language and Literature at Nanjing University.

Almond Lu added to talk to you about the aforementioned word "lonely death". "Lonely death" refers to the death of a person living alone due to a sudden illness or other reasons in the place where he or she lives without any care, especially when he dies without calling for help after the onset of the disease. "Lonely death" is mostly the elderly, especially the elderly, which is one of the outstanding manifestations of the aging of the whole human society, but there are also young people living alone who will have such a situation.

Previously, this phenomenon was particularly prominent in Japan. Today, "lonely death" has become a major problem plaguing Korean society. In China, Almond Lu also found sporadic cases.

Almond Lu also searched that "lonely death" is an unavoidable situation in the aging of human society, in the face of such a cruel situation, governments and communities at all levels in various countries are actively responding to such problems and calling for more care for people living alone.

Back to this book, then the "relic sorter" who witnessed the last journey of life, these lonely farewell deaths in his eyes, what kind of lamentation and enlightenment will be brought to the author and brought to us, let's first listen to the reader's opinion.

Today, I didn't expect that the first reader comment would give Almond Lu a complete defense:

The first reader said: Open the book, halfway through the book, can't help but call my mother.

Almond Lu did not cry when she read this book, but her eyes were red when she saw this sentence.

A second reader said that a Korean who worked in poetry at university went to Japan to be inspired and then opened a company to sort out relics... It was good to know about his psychological journey, which intrigued me even more.

The third reader said that the lonely man died without anyone knowing, leaving only a relic to tell the story of the person's ordinary and short life. It's so uncomfortable.

In addition to remembering the deceased and remembering their relatives who have gone away, some people in the comments also think of themselves: Some readers said: If one day, the traces of our existence in the world are to be shown to strangers, with this mentality, will our way of life be different?

Almond Lu replied herself: Yes. We are already working in the direction of trying to be as unquestionful as possible.

There are also different opinions: this reader believes that most of the book is the author's unfounded speculation about the deceased, and the expressed feelings are as ethereal as a tall building without a foundation, and it is difficult to empathize. Not recommended

Almond Lu felt that, after all, from the perspective of the author, from the perspective of the author, he could only quote the lonely deceased to "guess baselessly", and this "guess", Almond Lu thought that there was no malice after reading the whole book, just like before Almond Lu saw netizens post on the Internet saying that the Qingming Festival saw a tombstone in the cemetery, the above years and months showed that this should be a small child, and saw lollipops next to it, and could not help but lament the child's premature death and the pain of his family.

This well-intentioned quoted "guess" actually comes from the softest part of each of our hearts, which is evidence that we are still alive.

RENXINGDUSHU

The wayward reader Almond Lu sees it this way

"During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls."

The ancient poems we memorized as children, after the baptism of life's growth years, suddenly one day we understood the meaning of this poem, and the Qingming Festival also has a different meaning for us.

The topic of "death" has always been taboo in most traditional families, we do not discuss, do not mention, and when grief comes, even those who are prepared will be caught off guard. How to become strong, how to leave no regrets, this is also the direction we have been working hard and learning.

Today Almond Lu wants to talk to you about the topic of "death", we can understand the word a little more, maybe we have more experience of life.

The Relic Sorter, the first part of the book, "Cleaning up the rooms of those who died alone," has 13 special site cleaning records. The depiction is true and restrained, and following in the footsteps of the author, we can understand the last scene of the deceased. One of them is "Tent Life", in which the author goes to the room after a young woman commits suicide, and there is a quotation mark "campground" in the center of the room, a light pink tent is propped up in the room, there are several wine bottles at the entrance of the tent, and behind the tent there are several books that give people comfort to the soul. The author found in his work that the girl's final perspective is to be able to see the top of the tent, and the author thinks that a girl who treats life as a camping and buys these books home, if someone can understand her, give her care and understanding, she will not come to this step. With these questions in mind, the author wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and continued to work.

Unlike our previous information, the protagonists of the tragedy in the book are not only lonely old people, but also young people, poor people, and pets or stray cats and dogs that have left. In the chapter of "The Death of the Poor" in this section, a picture is attached to the text, which is a notice of power supply stopped after the arrears of electricity bills in South Korea. It makes people feel very helpless.

What moved Almond Lu even more was the second part of the book, "My Work Is Something Special", which is 11 deep thinking essays. The author documents every bit of his work from his own perspective.

In the chapter "Save You, Or Save Me", the author received a phone call, it was a young lady called, asking him whether a certain method recorded in the online blog would not bring pain, the author was very alert, aware of the woman's strong emotional state of instability, so he pretended to say that his mobile phone was out of battery to change the battery, asked her to wait, hung up the lady's phone, and then immediately called the police.

What is heart-wrenching is that the South Korean police operators and grass-roots police have adopted a one-on-one work attitude, they keep checking the location and phone number of the author, and the author repeatedly says that it is not his own problem, you should check the lady's phone number and location.

The author continued to keep on the phone with the woman, doing everything in his power to obtain information about the other party so that the South Korean police could rescue her. The description was thrilling and full of wisdom, and he eventually provided the police with reliable intelligence. The author was also taken away by the South Korean police, who interrogated him why he wrote such an article on the Internet, and the author had to slowly explain that he was not instigating everyone to do it, but to write that everyone "must not do anything".

When the author walked out of the police station, he received a text message from the woman, three words: "Bad guys." He knew the lady had been saved. At this time, the police expressed their gratitude to the author. At the end of the article, the author said that he had saved the lady's number, and he said, "I didn't get off the ship, we were still on the boat together."

This book is not thick, and the stories in it are almost just fragments, and unlike the criminal investigation novels we love to read, the stories are actually not complete.

To say that it is documentary literature, there are many subjective parts that express feelings. In terms of content, Almond Lu also believes that there are some descriptions that will make people uncomfortable. But as Almond Lu said earlier, there are not many such works, should we see more, or should we think more? I believe that everyone has their own answer to this question.

"Relic Finisher", almond Lu four-star recommendation.

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