<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > threshold space to accompany Freud through the last days of his life</h1>
We can share our love for flowers with others, and Freud was also very fond of giving flowers to women who appreciated them. When Virginia Woolf visited him, he did not miss the opportunity to send flowers. Woolf's husband recorded that Freud showed "old-school, formal manners" and sent a flower to Virginia almost as if he were performing a ceremony, and the cruel illness and aging continued to erode Freud's body. That winter, Virginia Woolf recorded Freud's haggard appearance in his diary of January 29, 1939: "He was paralyzed and convulsive, his speech was slurred, but he was conscious. Freud may have a hard time speaking, but flowers have their own language, and what he gave Woolf was one of his favorite species: daffodils.
That year, for Freud, who was in the evening of Mulberry Elm, the arrival of spring was very important. It was too cold to set up a rocker, but he could sit on the veranda that Ernst had built behind the house. The veranda is open to the public on one side, but it also has a shelter function, and Freud can sit here and admire the garden. Buildings such as loggias, greenhouses, terraces and balconies are called "threshold spaces", where we can enjoy both indoor and outdoor goodness.
Photo taken at noon at The Nanhai Welfare Institute in Foshan
Now, more and more people advocate threshold space, which is extremely important for the elderly and the dying. When a person's life exists at the junction of life and death, the junction space of the material world will help them. Elderly families can sit in this space and watch the clouds blow through the sky, knowing that their lives are not completely over. The garden can provide dynamics and changes from moment to moment, which makes us feel new and can also attract us. When we have limited mobility, our eyes can still move, our ears can still listen to the birds' songs, and our minds can sometimes fly to the treetops and be with the birds.
In the early summer, Freud, like others in the twilight of his life, spent a lot of time sleeping, resting as much as possible outdoors, sometimes with his family sitting next to him in his daytime bed. He is never alone because his beloved dog is always with him. Hans Sachs wrote that the wound in Freud's jaw was severely infected and the condition did not improve at all. For many years, Freud had had trouble eating, and now he was even more unable to eat, and his body became weaker as a result. His bed was moved from the upstairs bedroom to the converted study of the ward, where he lay and watched the garden.
At the beginning of September, Freud developed gangrene on his cheeks and began to emit a foul odor. The dog felt instinctive fear and did not dare to go near Freud. When it was brought into the study, it was always huddled in the farthest corner, refusing to go near its master. At this time, Freud could at least seek solace from the garden. The family tried to open the floor-to-ceiling glass doors as much as possible, and also placed Freud's bed in a position where he could see the flowers and plants, so that he could admire the flowers he loved. Flowers will never reject us.
Nishino Clinic, Kitakyushu, Japan
Shooting angle: See the garden from the interior
In the last weeks of Freud's life, the main caretaker was not only Anna, but also Ernst's wife, Lucy. She later wrote in a letter that despite the pain, Freud's hospital room was filled with "an atmosphere of calm, pleasure, and even warmth." When awake, Freud was "incredibly friendly, full of love for all of us, patiently accepting everything to the point of being touching".
Freud once wrote that death is an achievement—when we hear the news of someone else's death, we can feel an emotion similar to admiration, admiration for that person's completion of the task. After all, leaving one's dear one and dying is a great achievement in existence.
On the early morning of September 23, 1939, a week and a week after the Freud family moved to the Hamp Ested community, Freud died. When he first came here, he hoped to witness the spring, summer, autumn and winter of the garden, and his wish came true, and the garden accompanied him through the last year of his life.
Photographed in Foshan's Garden (Grandma Feng's private garden)
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > hospice and horticultural therapy</h1>
Plants are the basis for human survival, which is inseparable from human life, and human love for plants also stems from instinct. Many books, such as China's "Garden Ye", Japan's "Book of The Court", including some books in the West, have long recorded that human beings can bring comfort to the surrounding environment while watching plant life activities (Zhang Junhua, 2009). People began to understand the healing power of plants, and gradually there was the emergence of horticultural therapy.
Carol confirmed in 1910 the importance of gardening activities in the process of medical rehabilitation. Howard Brooks believes that patients who are severely disabled and completely dependent on others for assistance can have a living entity that needs their care and maintenance, which can arouse their willingness to live and make their future life fun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="57" > forms of implementation of gardening therapy in the dying</h1>
1. Place plants with strong vitality in the room and at the head of the bed;
2. Conditionally set the threshold garden;
3. Hang festive sachets (such as Dragon Boat Wormwood Buns, Zhongyuan Festival Blessing Removal Buns, Mid-Autumn Festival Yuzu Dolls) and Rosemary Sleep Tranquilizer Sachets.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="58" > the benefits of gardening therapy for dying people</h1>
1. Clean indoor air
In the enclosed room, in order to let the air flow and keep fresh, in addition to air conditioning, the most needed is the indoor plant with purification function, Phnom Penh tiger tail orchid, golden kudzu is a good choice.
2. The breath of nature
In an air-conditioned indoor temperature environment for a long time, dying people often forget about the changes of the seasons outside, and plants can bring them seasonal messages, such as spring flowers and autumn leaves.
3. Evoke the memories of the festival
Evoke delightful memories with indoor placement of festive cards, festive sachets and festive flowers.
4. Feel the vitality of plants
Plants with strong vitality appear in the room, open to the heart, full of greenery, showing full vitality, so that the dying person is also vulnerable to infection.
5. Wordless soothing
Plants are not frightened by the symptoms of the dying person's body, but still bloom, looking at them, making people unconsciously feel the power of life, and seem to get encouragement and hope, giving them wordless comfort.
Part of the content comes from "Your Heart, Let the Plants Heal"
2021 Horticultural Therapist Professional Skills Workshop