Dignity to live and die

Carolyne 2022-04-07 09:01:06

Living with dignity is not easy. Wang Xiaobo expressed such a view, and I was influenced by him. "Dignity" means "being treated as a person". Sometimes people don't treat us like people. More often, we don't treat ourselves as human beings.

I have a long group life experience. In public spaces, we often ignore or deliberately ignore our living environment. For example, no garbage is taken out, cigarette butts are thrown around, the toilet is not flushed, and instant noodles are eaten in the air-conditioned room... There are many slogans "X is home", but they are just slogans. Truly our own home, we would never do that.

There is no such trifle in the movie. Life and romance are two different things. If there is no filter, defecation, scrubbing, changing clothes... day after day, it is not romantic at all. But when time comes together into memories, it becomes romantic.

But "surviving" is not living. no ventilator

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Extended Reading
  • Walton 2022-04-12 09:01:09

    In every breath, it is the love and perseverance of parents.

  • Elbert 2022-04-13 09:01:06

    The virus pressed his life on a chair, but family affection pushed him far away. Slitting the trachea, inserting a tube, sitting in a breathing chair, some people are trapped in a terrifying iron lung machine, and some souls are light enough to try to travel the world. As time passed, the boy grew up and made a movie for his parents. But how many lives have been paralyzed, in heavy assisted breathing. The moment he turned off the ventilator, he was a baseball boy at the banquet, as if life had just begun.

Breathe quotes

  • Dr. Clement Aitken: May I begin by noting an interesting fact? At this conference on managing the lives of the severely disabled there are no disabled people present.

    [general laughter]

    Conference Chairman: Dr Aitken, forgive me, but the severely disabled are on life-support machines. So how could they be present?

    [loud laughter in the room]

    Dr. Clement Aitken: Um... well, allow me to introduce... um... Mr Robin Cavendish.

  • Robin Cavendish: Why do you keep your disabled people in prisons?