(a)

At the age of 42, my husband and I announced an important decision in my life as Esabelle Chen.

We decided to donate $180 billion from our fortune to establish a global Palliative Care Charity Fund.

With this fund, we have built more than 3,900 first-class and beautiful nursing hospitals around the world.

These care hospitals were not built for treatment and rehabilitation.

They are built for people who are destined to die soon.

Their role is to provide a final end-of-life companion for those who are destined to die.

Legal citizens from all over the world who have been sentenced to death by fate and are about to be executed, such as terminally ill patients, people with incurable injuries, incurable congenital diseases, elderly and dying people, etc., can apply to this foundation.

After the vetting, the person to be deceased can be admitted to one of the nearest hospice care hospitals with one of their immediate family members or guardians.

They only need to pay a very low fee (the average fee is $12 per month in developed countries and 70 RMB per month in developed countries) and can even apply further without paying any fees and live a calm and comfortable decent life here.

They will live in a wards in a family-style environment (one bedroom, one bathroom, one balcony, one bedroom, one living room, one bathroom, one bathroom, one kitchen, two bedrooms, one bathroom, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, one bathroom, two bedrooms, one bathroom, one kitchen, three bedrooms, one living room suite, detached suite, etc.).

The bright window of the ward is a picturesque natural landscape.

They will be accompanied by beautiful and soft background music.

In the Comfort Care Hospital, they are not connected to various instruments all day long, they are not shrouded in all kinds of radiation, they are not infused with all kinds of liquids, they are not cut by all kinds of knives, and they are not taken several times a day to measure their temperature, blood sugar and blood pressure.

They will not be treated as an "objective object" to be scientifically manipulated and coldly saved.

They will be comforted and respected as relatives of caregivers and administrators, and as friends and partners.

When they say what they want in this life, sometimes that wish is fulfilled with the help of the Foundation.

For example, they may unexpectedly meet an old friend who was separated many years ago, they may be sponsored for a dream excursion, and they may be able to meet someone they have admired for life and receive their blessings and encouragement.

They will die in the company of smiling and friendly caregivers, in the least painful way possible.

They can get effective professional help to get themselves clean and dignified to die.

They will be given a family goodbye before they die.

Farewells are usually done in the form of candlelit evenings.

The farewell was attended by their relatives and friends, hospital administrators, doctors and nurses, other patients who were also waiting to die, religious people who volunteered to serve, and volunteers of all ages and countries.

The farewell ceremony is as warm and touching as celebrating the golden wedding of the elderly or celebrating the birthday of the elderly.

Many people hugged each other and sang songs that brought tears to their eyes, and they would shake hands and kiss each other.

Sometimes they would pray together under the leadership of the clergy.

Many of the people who died here died with a smile on their faces and a serene glow.

In some countries where euthanasia is legal, Comfort Care Hospital is one of the designated institutions licensed by the local government to perform euthanasia.

The world knows that my husband and I have always been passionate about medical philanthropy, especially my husband. But people don't really understand why we have a soft spot for end-of-life care charities when we get married.

However, we as a couple understand each other deeply.

There are so many untold deaths that we have experienced and witnessed.

We don't want even one more person to go into a dark death in such a tragic way.

(b)

The Comfort Care Charitable Foundation and these Comfort Hospitals have been in the midst of a huge controversy since their inception.

They have been facing all sorts of backlash and angry accusations, especially in the hospitals where euthanasia is practised, where protesters seem to have been holding up signs outside for months.

Many religious believers believe that the power of life and death belongs to God or the true God, and that human beings do not have the right to decide when, where, and how to die.

Euthanasia is a crime equivalent to murder.

We have been being held up by reporters with long and short microphones because of Anxiang Hospital, and we are reluctant to ask all kinds of sharp questions. There are a lot of questions that are even physically insulting.

For example, at a global business conference, while I was speaking on stage, an angry naysayer suddenly broke through the safety line, jumped up from the stage, and threw an egg on my clothes.

He asked me aloud, "Baroness, if you and your husband are rich enough, why do you go and help kill the poor people instead of the ones who can not die?" ”

- His view is completely disregarded from the facts. In fact, my husband alone has established far more charitable medical institutions than Anxiang Hospital.

I've always felt aggrieved and confused: why do people insist that it is wrong to help a person walk peacefully into death? Why do so many people feel that helping the dying is a waste of resources? Do people feel like they don't need help when they themselves face death?

I see that this is not the case.

Every time we go to cut the ribbon at the newly completed Onxiang Hospital, we see demonstrators crowding in front of the hospital. They held up signs, shouted slogans, and even sang songs and cosplayed in death costumes, accusing us of encouraging people to give up treatment and wait for death.

Various media, including my own investment, are passionately discussing the abuse of money and the handling of life.

All sorts of people are involved in this controversy.

The discussion messages on the CBC TV network website are as high as 25.79 million in a month.

The website of the Comfort Care Foundation is attacked by an average of 20 hackers per month.

Once, I saw a hacker on the front page with a bloody lettering: "Esabelle, are you trying to prove that you are God through the bodies of these dead?" ”

The Foundation faces more than 300 legal proceedings a year for this purpose, and must be escorted by a well-known law firm established by 12 senior lawyers throughout the year.

My husband and wife often joke with each other that almost every day of the year, 365 days a year, we are defendants in countries around the world because of this fund and these hospitals.

You once looked at the newspaper and asked me with a smile if we were the couple who had ever been sued the most for hospice issues.

I laughed it off.

But, then, I actually saw an explanation of ourselves on Wikipedia, which affirmed very clearly that we were really the couple who had been sued the most for end-of-life care charities in 100 years.

I'm surprised to tell you this information.

You laugh and say, "I don't know if this counts as a dream come true." ”..