text even more. "Me before you" by Xi Shizhen
is a touching and inspirational story on the surface, perhaps with a hint of love. In reality, however, this is the story of how a man with spinal cord palsy, high paraplegia, made his way to euthanasia step by step during his 6-month life.
The female protagonist Lulu is an optimist. She wears different floral dresses every day. For money and family, she has to find a job. She works as a nurse at the male protagonist's house and takes care of the male protagonist's necessities. The male protagonist Will is a tall, rich and handsome man, but due to an accident, he was highly paralyzed and had to spend his whole life in a wheelchair. In this way, the male protagonist's life changed from the previous quietness to the gorgeous with the arrival of the female protagonist. If you see this, I think most people can guess the next plot: the heroine deeply moved the disabled male protagonist with happiness and strength. Although the male protagonist once thought of suicide, after the heroine's optimistic and positive attitude Indoctrination, the soul and spirit of the male protagonist were finally redeemed, so the male protagonist gave up death and chose to continue to embrace the world with his mutilated body. In the process, they gradually fell in love with each other, so the two fell in love and never gave up ...a typical story of Cinderella meeting the golden prince charming, but the golden prince is disabled. Yes, this is indeed the case at the beginning, but in fact the male protagonist finally chose euthanasia.
Even this imperfect ending couldn't stop me from loving this story. I don't like the ending of Will's euthanasia, but I respect his choice and think carefully about why he chose to die?
First of all, before meeting the female protagonist Lulu, the male protagonist is a healthy man with good looks, smooth career, love of adventure, sweet love and stable life. He loves bungee jumping, surfing in the snow, skateboarding...all extreme sports. However, after being highly paralyzed, he is unable to enjoy the upper-class life he once pursued and challenge the extreme sports he once loved. It's like a skilled painter loses his light, a top dancer loses his legs, a talented musician loses his ears... It's like falling into a bottomless abyss, only roaring and helpless. As Will said: "You're going to feel uncomfortable in your new world for a bit. It always does feel strange to be knocked out of your comfort zone. You don't feel comfortable.)"
Second, he watched the woman he loved so much, even the woman who could have been his wife, because of his high disability, chose to marry his business partner and best friend. . He was incapable, he could only regret it. As a high society, he sees love very well, and he can't give his lover everything he wants. He also didn't want to see his once loved wife say something hurtful to him because she was tired of caring for him one day many years later. He couldn't stand the shackles of being the one he loved. He had to give up the power of love. As Will said: "I don't want you to miss all the things someone else could give you. (I don't want you to miss the people who can take good care of you.)"
In the end, it was because of his unchangeable outlook on life. The heroine Lulu racked her brains to take Will to go horseback riding, listen to Mozart concerts, attend her birthday party, and prepare for a beach trip... She did everything she could to make Will fall in love with life again and dispel Will. Secretly planned euthanasia. However, Will's outlook on life is very clear. The life he wants has never been like this. He can't stand such an incompetent self. He even needs to kidnap his parents and Lulu in the name of love. The only thing he can do is Give your loved ones freedom. Yes! The best gift he can give to his loved ones is not to live incompetently, but to be free from fetters and concerns, the most genuine freedom.
As Will said: "You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
" Will chose euthanasia. With the company of his parents and the care of Lulu, there will be no more pain and no more darkness...
Don't think of me too often. I don't want to think of you getting all maudlin. Just live well. Just live.
Don't think about me too much, I don't want you to be sad. To be good... to live well.
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