Before his death at the age of 110, the famous calligrapher Su Juxian also conveyed his understanding of life in the same way. He expressed his true feelings in poetry, "The skin is like a spring silkworm shed. Who can preserve it forever in the ancient times." When the spirit is exhausted, it will be handed over to the hands of doctors, and when it is cut with a thousand cuts, it will be reincarnated." After completing his life journey, he created three "bests in the country": the oldest body donor in China, the pathological dissector, and the person who spread ashes into the sea. .
It can be said that the most thorough and progressive way to bid farewell to this world is to donate yourself. This means that one seeks to contribute to living people and to the developing cause of medicine after one's individual physical life has ended. "Body donation" is beneficial to medical teaching, and "organ donation" gives terminally ill patients a chance to be saved.
But in our country, the current situation in both aspects is worrying. According to normal teaching needs, every 3 to 4 students in the medical school must dissect no less than one cadaver. On average, every 20 students in medical schools in my country can dissect one cadaver, while one medical student in developed countries in Europe and the United States can dissect several or even a dozen cadavers. At the same time, our country is also one of the countries with the lowest organ donation rate in the world. Spain is 35.1/million people, the United States is 25.8/million people, and the Asian average is 4.27/million people, of which Taiwan is 7~8/million people, which is also the region with the first donation rate in Asia.
There are many factors that cause this situation. First of all, it is the restriction of the traditional concept, "The body's hair and skin are received by the parents, and one does not dare to damage them. This is the beginning of filial piety." People are more willing to carry the complete The body passes away; similarly, the public's concerns about organ donation are also related to the fact that my country's organ donation regulations and mechanisms are still being gradually improved. The lack of public awareness, the lack of popular science and education, and the lack of relevant laws and regulations have all become "stumbling blocks" for people to fully support the cause of organ donation.
Huang Jiefu, former Vice Minister of Health, once said that organ donation is the greatest livelihood of the people. If you donate, you will live, if you don't donate, you will die. However, for many years, organ donation has always been a question left to Chinese citizens in the transition period - how to think about the ethics and value of life? In fact, "after death, everything is in vain." As time goes by, the body will eventually return to dust and the tomb will be razed to the ground. Only virtue and character can remain in the memory of future generations for a long time. Body and organ donation is an act of "prolonging life", and it is the highest virtue in virtue and the most righteousness in character!
The philanthropic and righteous deeds of the elderly Gao Bin in this way to arrange things after death explain the value and meaning of life. In this world where the living and the dead are exclusive , goodwill and perfection are the bridges that connect each other. The deceased is gone, and the body is used by the living, whether it is rebirth or learning, which is the continuation and amplification of the value of life. From this perspective, will it give us a deeper understanding and support for body and organ donation?
The road to donation is difficult and long. I hope more people will walk side by side and light up the light of life.