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In 2019, a video of 2 hours and 13 minutes was released, which immediately caused a huge sensation on the whole network.
This video is a documentary, the last image left to the world by a host with cancer in our country when he rushed to Switzerland for euthanasia on June 7, 2018, with the support of his family.
Leaving this image and making it public is the old man's last wish. But it wasn't until a year later that his family finally came out of the shadow of losing him and uploaded the video online.
Whether it is euthanasia or public video, it is the choice of the elderly themselves, but when the video spread, the elderly's family members were subject to nationwide controversy.
Who is this host?
What happened to him and his family?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="78" > "Taiwan Song Shixiong"</h1>
The host, named Fu Daren, is the host of a well-known sports program in Taiwan, who has been on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala for two consecutive years and has won wide praise from audiences on both sides of the strait with his witty and witty performance.
Fu Daren's ancestral home is Jinan, Shandong, and his father sacrificed his life for the country during the War of Resistance Against Japan, so he has deep feelings for the motherland and loves to eat Shandong cuisine all his life. After reaching middle age, he often returned to the banks of the Yellow River to look for the bones of his father's sacrifice, but unfortunately he failed to do so.
As a sports program host, Fu Daren's hosting golden period caught up with an excellent era, he has interviewed boxing king Ali, ball king Pele, and Yao Ming and other sports celebrities, participated in seven Olympic games visits, and Wang Zuxian's father is a close friend, and also became Wang Zuxian's father.
The most talked about of his life was that, in addition to his hosting career and the final euthanasia choice, his marriage and feelings were often of great concern.
Fu Daren claimed to have had "2.5 marriages" in this life, because in addition to his first wife, Rao Lizhen, and his current wife Zheng Yi, who had accompanied him for most of his life, Fu Daren also met Miss Chen, who was only 17 years old at the time, when he was more than half a hundred years old.
What is surprising is that Zheng Yi, after knowing that her husband was cheating and even the other party was pregnant, generously accepted this Miss Chen and helped raise the child.
And this child born to Fu Daren and Miss Chen, and with his wife Zheng Yi to take care of and raise, is many, many years later, promised Fu Daren's son Fu Junhao who wants to go to Switzerland for euthanasia.
As early as 2016, when Fu Daren was diagnosed with bile duct obstruction and pancreatic cancer, the 83-year-old proposed to euthanize and chose to leave when he still had good dignity.
However, at that time, the illness had just been detected, and his family still had a glimmer of hope in their hearts, hoping to prolong Fu Daren's life as much as possible through effective treatment, so they resolutely refused to agree to Fu Daren's request.
Only in the following two years, the family took Fu Daren around to seek medical treatment, tried various methods, and Fu Daren still lost weight day by day.
Fu Daren was a basketball athlete when he was young, his body was fit, and now he was tormented by illness, he could not see any of the spirit of the past, he had lost weight from the original 140 pounds to more than 90 pounds, his bones were so thin that he couldn't even hold up his past clothes, and he lay listlessly on the hospital bed all day, his body was full of various hoses, and he was injected and infused by medical personnel.
Fu Junhao once recalled that one night he accompanied his father, but only left his father's hospital bed in a short time, and when he returned, his father, who had been asleep, woke up, and because of his mobility, he accidentally fell from the bed to the ground, struggling to get up, but he failed to do so.
Fu Junhao, who remembered this scene again after a long time, would burst into tears in an instant. He described bitterly: "I want to help him, but I can't help him with anything." ”
Once a person has been sick for a long time, he is doomed to lose some of his dignity.
Fu Junhao remembered 2016, just got the diagnosis and told his family that he wanted to euthanize his father, perhaps he had already foreseen that there would be a day today. In the case of his father's character, it was not surprising that such a choice would be proposed at such a time.
Fu Daren was born with an open-minded nature, who likes to speak straight, has a cheerful and witty personality, and does not like to be constrained by the world. Generally speaking, when a person becomes famous, he always hates being compared to another living peer, but Fu Daren is just the opposite.
No matter how the media compares him to other hosts, Fu Daren will not care. He knew that there was a well-known sports host Song Shixiong in the mainland, so after he became famous as a sports host, he took the initiative to call himself "Taiwan Song Shixiong", which showed his open-minded nature.
Fu Daren, who was suffering from illness, frowned all day long, he was not angry or angry about anything, but the presence of cancer caused him great pain. Academician Han Jisheng, the founder of pain medicine in China, once described the feeling of cancer pain in this way: "Swallowing saliva is like eating broken glass ballast." ”
Old people with cancer
When the simplest, most instinctive swallowing and eating becomes painful, it is easy for people to lose interest in living.
Fu Junhao had no way to replace his father, who was suffering from cancer, to resist this pain, and could only soften his heart under his father's lifeless gaze, constantly moaning in pain, and finally tearfully agreed to his father's wish to euthanize.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="76" > "commissioned to kill."</h1>
But it's one thing to agree, but it's another to achieve it.
China has not yet opened a channel for the legalization of euthanasia, and Fu Daren can only turn his attention abroad.
Switzerland, while not the first country to legalize euthanasia, is the only country to accept euthanasia from foreigners in its home country.
But even so open, Switzerland is a country that only allows assisted suicide against foreigners, and at the same time names it "commissioned killing" in the law. There is naturally a great controversy about the relationship between "killing", and once something goes wrong, the person bears considerable criminal responsibility.
In addition, the procedures and procedures for euthanasia are also very complicated, and there are relatively high fees. Generally speaking, in Switzerland, the basics of euthanasia services that can provide euthanasia services are non-governmental organizations, and the cost of euthanasia for domestic people is 4,000 Swiss francs, which is equivalent to 27,000 yuan.
Foreigners need to pay 10,000 Swiss francs, close to 70,000 yuan, in addition, foreigners go to Switzerland or consider other costs, such as travel expenses and accommodation costs.
In order to be able to euthanize Switzerland, Fu Daren applied to the Swiss government twice, for which he spent a total of more than 3 million Taiwan dollars, including airfare and ashes. The first time he went to apply for a return, his relatives and friends were still thinking of persuading him to give up the idea of euthanasia, hoping that he could live as long as possible for his family for as long as possible, and also let the children do more filial piety.
But for Fu Daren, who is suffering from cancer, the more filial the child is, the more pain he has to endure. He did not feel that euthanasia was a tragic death, but rather saw it as relief, and he was sure that this was the end he wanted.
Although his son Fu Junhao had figured it out and brought his father to Switzerland again, he still couldn't help but want to make a final stay.
After the whole family came to Switzerland, Fu Junhao did not immediately take his father to the "Dignity Clinic" in Switzerland, but first took the whole family to accompany his father on a journey in Switzerland.
Fu family in Switzerland for a group photo
Switzerland is one of the world's most famous tourist resorts, and it goes without saying how good the scenery here is. When he came here to travel, Fu Daren's spirit also improved a lot with the naked eye, and he was happy to take photos in front of different local attractions.
It can be seen that Fu Daren still likes Switzerland, and when he was treating patients in Switzerland before, the staff of the Chinese Embassy in Switzerland specially invited Fu Daren to eat Shandong cuisine, and all that was left here was good memories.
At first, Fu Junhao thought that maybe he would have fun, and his father would not want to die for a while. However, after Fu Daren made his decision, he did not waver, and despite the beauty of the Swiss scenery and the bitter pleading of his family, he still resolutely went to the "Dignity Clinic".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="69" > "Goodbye!" </h1>
As a place of euthanasia, this so-called "dignity clinic" is not as solemn as a hospital, and the interior decoration is deliberately designed to show warmth and relaxation everywhere.
After the family was seated, the staff here repeatedly asked Fu Daren if he was really going to do this, and said: "If you don't want to, you can stop at any time, this is your right." ”
But Fu Daren never shouted to stop.
He got two cups of the potion from the staff, but only the second cup really worked, and the first cup was only an antiemetic. Because the second cup of medicine is extremely strong, when people take it, the body will spontaneously react when it feels that the toxicity will spontaneously, ignoring the wishes of the owner of the body to vomit, and the antiemetic is taken to avoid this situation.
After taking the first cup of antiemetics, Fu Daren waited 25 minutes for the effects to take effect. During this time, he sang happily with his family. The family members forced a smile and accompanied him, and Fu Daren finally showed the most cheerful smile since he was ill.
When he got his second potion, he was as funny as ever, smiling and asking the staff in a humorous tone, "Do I need to swallow one bite, or two?" ”
In the "Strange Grace" song sung by the family, Fu Daren took the second cup of potion, smiled at the camera, and said: "Goodbye! ”
Then raise a glass and drink it all.
"Goodbye!"
The singing at the scene had a momentary suppression, Fu Junhao could not bear it any longer, hugged his father, and whimpered with tears: "Dad, we love you!" ”
The family was worried that Fu Daren, who had drunk the medicine, would be in pain, and they forced themselves to cry and said to him: "It doesn't hurt anymore, and it won't hurt anymore." ”
Soon, Fu Daren leaned on his son's shoulder, his breathing gradually became calmer, and soon after he died under the embrace of his son.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="70" > euthanasia? Death with dignity? </h1>
The Fu family has always been relatively low-key, and for a year after Fu Daren's death, there was not much to say.
Until 2019, Fu Junhao made the image of his father finally accepting euthanasia public, because Fu Daren's last wish before his death was to legalize euthanasia, and the public release of this image is also to let the public know more about euthanasia.
Fu Daren father and son embraced each other
After the video was made public, it really caused a huge sensation on the Internet.
Netizens have expressed their condolences to Fu Daren and expressed understanding for Fu's family, but there are also a large number of people who cannot recognize the choice of Fu Daren's family, accusing them of being cold-blooded and cold-hearted, and even some people questioned Fu's family in person whether they chose to release a video at this time and whether they wanted to speculate.
A dignified and painless death may be what everyone aspires to, so some people think that the term "euthanasia" is not accurate and should be changed to "death with dignity".
At the 12th National People's Congress held in 2016, Academician Li Peigen, a deputy to the National People's Congress from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, proposed that legislation on "euthanasia" be considered. He believes that "euthanasia" is not a bad thing for society, it is actually a civilization, and it is everyone's right to choose to die with dignity.
Academician Lee Peigen
However, at the same time, Academician Li also believes that in order to implement euthanasia, it is necessary to have supporting strict procedures to ensure that the parties can make decisions independently and autonomously in a sober state to avoid adverse social effects.
In fact, the Fu family was ready for questioning before the video was released.
They also know that relying on a single video will not change deep-rooted social concepts, but at least they have fulfilled Fu Daren's wishes in his lifetime, and the rest will be left to time to comment.
Fu Junhao looked at the portrait of him hugging his father