[Memories. The Sickness and Death of the Old Man]
Maybe for many people, many scenes in the movie make people feel a little unbearable, lamenting the pity of the old man, but for me, it may be a little different, because I Born in the countryside of Sichuan in western China, where I grew up seeing miserable old people a lot, if I let these old people watch this movie, they would say that the conditions are so good, and it would be enough if I could live like that for the rest of my life.
I lived with the old man as a child, so I have quite a few memories of the old man seeing a doctor. Every time I look back on it, I feel unbearable.
When I was a child, I lived with my grandparents and grandparents in that kind of short house made of mud and bamboo, and lived the most primitive life of slash-and-burn farming.
When I was about four years old, I accompanied my grandfather to see a doctor. The hospital was not cleaned. The doctors and nurses arrogantly treated the people who came to see a doctor in the countryside. On the floor of the hall, the nurse ran over and yelled in a harsh voice and forced us to clean the floor. My grandfather was always the most afraid of causing trouble. When he was sick and powerless, he kept bowing and apologizing. I was almost scared. I cried, and then we went to great lengths to find a mop to clean the floor.
And my grandmother has never seen me since I was born, because she suffers from severe cataracts and went to the hospital for numerous cuts. Due to the backwardness of technology and medical conditions, her eyes have actually been destroyed, and she has not yet been treated. Since kindergarten, I have been her little guide for the blind. I often have to accompany her on long and long journeys. Sometimes the narrow fields are slippery when it rains, and she always falls, and so do I. , but she laughed at me when she fell, so every time I fell, I laughed along, as if it was funny. When she got home, she boiled a large plate of hot water to wash me first, and then I helped her wash it. In winter, it was very cold, and it was so cold that she laughed at me, so when I was cold, I laughed along with him. . Later, I recalled that whenever I encountered something like that, my grandmother liked to make me giggle, so that I fell down while practicing basketball. All petrochemical.
Since my grandmother was not literate, every time I asked her to tell me stories, she would only tell the same story, a story of twenty-four filial piety, which made me think that unfilial piety should be punished since I was a child.
Grandpa died because no one was sent to the hospital, so he left silently. I was still in middle school at the time, and I couldn't understand why my uncles didn't send him to rescue him. Several uncles were no longer poor, but they always pushed the responsibility.
When I went to put on a shroud for him, I saw him being so quiet, I pressed him on his chest and found that there was a gasping sound, so I pressed hard, foolishly thinking I could save him. When it was pulled away, everyone said that tears should not touch the shroud, so I held back the tears and finally went to the side and cried. Before my grandfather died, he kept saying: "If I'm going to die, give your grandma some poison and let her die together, otherwise she won't be able to see, and if no one lives with her, she will suffer."
After the stroke in "Sister Peach" Those stories reminded me of my grandmother's stroke. When my grandfather passed away, when my grandmother was alive, she really suffered. Her hair soon turned white. Because she has other diseases, she has broken bones and can't take too strong medicine. She has been critically ill several times, and every time I go far away, I will rush back because no one in my family can pay for her medical bills. Even though she raised three sons and two daughters, and a lot of grandchildren, no one paid a penny for medical bills. My uncle said that because my mother promised to pay for the medical expenses before her death, I should bear the responsibility. No matter what they say, I can't ignore it when I see my grandmother suffer in the hospital. I think it's better to burn paper for her after she dies. It's better to give more now than to think of her full of guilt later.
So she would pronounce my name when she was dying, and I would go back to take care of her. The conditions of the hospital are still so backward, maybe the poor people are rarely seen. From the beginning of a fracture, a stroke, to the failure of various organs, every time the doctor would say to let her leave quietly. But grandma didn't want to die, and I didn't give up, so she survived again and again, adding up to several more years. Some people say that she gets up early every day and walks around the courtyard with a cane, and then sits on a small stool in a daze or talks to herself a lot, and it is meaningless to live. I think she wants to live because she is reluctant to leave me, she talks to herself because she is too lonely, every time I go back, I stand quietly in front of her, she will call my name when I touch it, I can't stay with me all the time With her, every time I go back, I give her some money, which she is reluctant to spend, so she hangs it in a small bag around her neck. Later, she saved a few thousand yuan and gave it to her uncle to steal it. Later, she gave her the money. It's all spent, so I think it's worth the thousands of dollars being stolen.
And my cousins, my cousins, who were also raised by my grandparents, hardly ever went back to take care of the elderly when she was critically ill. One cousin took a look at the door of the ward, maybe everyone was afraid to see the dying The appearance of the old man is dirty and smelly, and he uses a sputum suction device to suck phlegm from time to time. For the children born in the 90s and 00s, it is a nightmare.
Later, my grandmother finally left, and I learned that my uncle had bought her a rural medical insurance. She only paid ten yuan a year, and about 60% of it could be reimbursed, but only some broken hospitals could be reimbursed. I just realized why my uncle asked me for those payment receipts.
In our poor western areas, how lucky the elderly are to enter the nursing home. It is their wish to have a good death. They have no diapers after a stroke, nor do they have such good crutches. Get up again. I remember when I was taking care of my grandmother, I had to pick up feces and urine, and scrub my buttocks every day, just like taking care of a baby. If I leave for a period of time, the high-priced caregiver will not scrub, and my buttocks will rot. It is necessary to find a doctor to take medicine for more than 20 times a day. This kind of thing happens every day in the wards of those backward areas. Which director dares to shoot?
However, I really hope that a director will go to a poor area in China to make a movie about the elderly. You must know that most of the real Chinese elderly are still in poor areas.
It is best to compare it with the situation in Beijing Veteran Cadre Hospital.
[Thinking. No place for old
people in the future] Many children are born to prevent old age. Now many families have a situation where a young couple raises four old people. If the conditions of the four old people are ordinary, then the young people not only have to support themselves and their children , housing, car, insurance, etc., and a part of it for the elderly. Once the elderly suffer a serious illness, can most families afford it? Let’s take a look. Veteran cadres and family members of vested interests can live in luxury and luxury. The eight-star cadre ward, the family does not want to go back.
In China, ordinary citizens contribute 28 percent of their wages to their pensions, while civil servants do not have to pay. However, after retirement, civil servants' pensions are three times that of ordinary workers. In fact, their high pensions are paid by taxpayers such as ordinary workers.
In the early days of communalization, the government promised the Chinese people a future. Everyone had clothes and food to eat. They didn’t need to save or store. Therefore, the peasants obediently handed in the land they were allocated, as well as the means of production such as boats and large livestock. These young at the time, now old generation, lost the wealth they could use to accumulate. The result is a lifetime of poverty. When it came to 1978, it couldn't go on any longer. When the government waved its hands, you can do it all over again. You completely forgot your promise back then. And the promised party, already middle-aged, has no chance to come back. The value and survival experience of the elderly are all in the agricultural society, and there is no authority and guidance for the next generation. And the new pension system was not established, so most of them sacrificed themselves.
Health Minister Chen Zhu said in an interview: "We performed cataract surgery for a rural aunt for free. When she took off the gauze, she saw it. She really has to thank the party! Thank the government! By herself, she can't afford the surgery in her life." .
Xiao Cui asked, "She has worked hard all her life and can't even perform cataract surgery, so who does she hate?" The accumulated property and real estate are enough to live dignifiedly in urban and rural areas where land prices are rising.
An ordinary Chinese, if he is responsible for making money on his own, I am afraid it is difficult to bear such a burden. What the vested interests want is to make you struggle for a living, and make you hungry at any time. Forcing you to evade tax, forcing you to pay bribes, forcing you to take risks, everyone has a handle in their hands, then you all shut up, otherwise it is easier to punish you than to kill an ant, so those who are lucky How slavish and idiotic are people who start to defend the vested interests when they think they have a little benefit from their accommodating relationship.
Many people think that reforming slowly is the best way. If you change a little in terms of medical security and the pension system, it is already very good, but I am thinking, if the basic system does not change, then a little bit The decision-making power of reform is always in the hands of those with vested interests. This side will give you some benefits, and the other side will secretly take some away for you. In short, you must be permanently starved to achieve stability and harmony.
How do you think you will die? Have you ever been worried? No matter how young you are, this movie is sure to make you think about it.
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