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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Breathe quotes

  • Dr. Entwistle: No one with your husband's degree of disability anywhere in the world exists outside a hospital.

  • Diana Cavendish: Dr Khan. Robin and I, we wanted to ask you a question. Didn't we, Robin? Can machines like that ventilator only work in hospitals?

    Dr. Khan: Well, it's just a machine, you know. You plug it in and it goes. Why do you ask?

    Diana Cavendish: Robin's going to leave the hospital.

    Dr. Khan: Do you have any idea of the risk?

    Diana Cavendish: Yes, yes I do. The risk is that he might die.

    Diana Cavendish: [turns toward Robin]

    Diana Cavendish: Robin...

    Robin Cavendish: I either go on living here or leave here and possibly die.

    Diana Cavendish: Yes.

    Robin Cavendish: Well, what are we waiting for?