Bucket List: Notes from a Hospice Worker

Recommendation index: 5 stars The most shocking book I have read in the past three years during the epidemic. I was put off by the synopsis... I haven't wanted to watch it because I don't really want to watch sad and negative things. I opened it when I was bored, but I was unexpectedly inspired. Feeling a little healed. I also volunteered when I was confused, but I was indeed affected by negative emotions. When I go to the orphanage, I don't dare to hold those children with mutilated hands and feet, and I don't even dare to take a second look at the children with mutilated faces. Only then did I realize that I was not as loving as I thought, nor was I as strong as I thought. I quite agree with many of the ideas on hospice care in the book, and there are also many places where I learned new knowledge, such as euthanasia, bone marrow transplantation, volunteer conditions, etc., Which I was curious about or concerned about. The most impressive character in the book is Chapter 5, Xiao Nuo. Although she died young, she loved bravely. She didn't feel inferior because of her cancer and felt she was not qualified to be in a relationship, so she broke up with her boyfriend. Instead, she told her boyfriend's mother that if she didn't let her boyfriend accompany her until the end, her boyfriend would not be able to get through this hurdle. Look at the real world, there is no such thing as the Virgin in movies and TV shows. The bucket list listed is also quite interesting. I like this sunny girl. I'm thinking that I should make a bucket list too. After thinking about it for a while, it seems that there are only a few, but fortunately there are not none. There is also the AIDS mother who chose a natural birth in the end instead of a caesarean section in which she was likely to die immediately. She just hoped that she would live a few more years and hoped for luck. After all, there was a 70% chance that the baby would be a normal baby. I think it's quite humane. Maternal love is often held too high by social expectations and literary works. Also, if you take too much perseverance, you won't be able to persist for long. Just like when I lose weight, I stop exercising if I can't stick to it for long. But I like to read books, but I can't read them for several hours a day... Views such as this are basically the same as those of the author. She understood it at a very young age. It should be because of her experience of "death" to survive. Living towards death is easier said than done. Pay tribute to the author! I just went to Baidu to visit Ji Cien. She had brain tumor surgery in 2020 and is still alive. Hope she is fine!