Life Can Be Cruel Sometimes, But Neither You Nor I Need to Apologize
Abstract：When I saw the WeChat message from my father's friend that said, 'We all should be as brave as your father,' I quietly got teary-eyed while sitting in the office. When I was 12 years old, I witnessed death; it came simply and calmly. Once a patient was diagnosed with brain death, the ventilator would be turned off. There were no last words or final faint breaths. With a switch, the ventilator stopped its rhythmic lament. On the liquid crystal display of the electrocardiogram monitor, the red line rose and fell with the heartbeat, becoming increasingly irregular as the patient's heart, severely oxygen-deprived, struggled in its final moments. A few minutes later, silence fell, and the red line's pattern turned into a straight line. Soon after, a stretcher without any body was pushed out from the first floor of the hospital's west gate, with a folding bag containing the corpse, which was then taken to the morgue.
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Publication Date：2025-06-20
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 61-62 )