Chapter 942: Peaceful Care (Part II)
(a)
Obviously, working at our Palliative Care Charity Foundation and Palliative Hospitals around the world is a hard and thankless job.
The head of the Comfort Care Charity Foundation has changed 16 times in seven years.
Although they are happy to have that rather expensive salary and are happy to participate in public welfare and charity, after actually taking over, they feel that they can hardly bear this kind of pressure.
These stresses have even affected their and their family members' normal lives.
One of them, Andrew, was murdered in an attempted murder attempt. His car has been attacked by car bombs and sniped by professional gunmen. Once it blew up the door, and once it shattered the front window.
It was only because of his fate that he escaped death twice, but in the end he was still shot through the knee, and he was disabled for life, and had to retire early and live on a country farm in New Zealand.
On average, dozens of bombs of all kinds are found in the office building of the Comfort Care Charity Foundation, ranging from mail bombs, suitcase bombs, garbage can bombs, car bombs to suicide bombs.
A husband who, in accordance with his wishes, chose to leave his noisy and troublesome family, stayed in medical care to spend the last days of his life, and finally, in the company of the clergy, died peacefully and naturally in the clean room of the hospital facing the snow-capped Virgin in Switzerland. Before his death, he left a will notarized by a lawyer, donating 80% of his family property to the Comfort Care Fund.
As a result, his widow insisted that it was the Hospital of Ann Xiang who tricked him into coming here in order to rob him of his inheritance, kidnapped and illegally imprisoned him, and finally murdered him by despicable means.
She engaged in a protracted lawsuit with us, hired a large number of botnets, and launched a global cyber war of words on a staggering scale.
After the lawsuit ultimately failed, she completely ignored the clear testimony and the rich chain of evidence in the courtroom and always decided that we were murderers.
In order to do justice, she hired a single middle-aged woman from another country to act as a suicide bomber, and found a hostess as an internal response to try to blow herself up under the rostrum of our Foundation's annual meeting and blow up the main person in charge of our Foundation.
Although the case was cracked by the local police as soon as possible, and the police carried out effective interception and blocking at the scene, and the explosion did not succeed in blowing up the rostrum, the middle-aged woman who was hired escaped from the police was in a hurry, and fled to the door of a supermarket on the street and detonated the bomb. The explosion destroyed more than half of the supermarket, killing and injuring more than 200 innocent passers-by, tourists and shoppers.
Under the bombardment of global public opinion and repeated scrutiny by local anti-terrorism authorities, the local Anxiang Hospital had to be closed for a whole year.
Later, we had to spend a lot of money to hire professional bodyguards and security companies to take care of the security of the foundation building, staff and hospitals around the country, and we had to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to install various high-tech security equipment everywhere.
(b)
Because the Comfort Fund and the Hospital have been in a lot of trouble since they opened, I can't help but feel a little discouraged and frustrated.
I just want those who are helpless to face death to die with more dignity, comfort, and serenity, without any thoughts of seeking personal gain, nor any bad intentions, why do people in the world not forgive us like this. They tolerate so many absurd things, boring things, and ugly things, why do they do a little good deed to others, and they are so critical and inconsiderate?
After the car bombing, I went to visit the head of the fund, and when I came back from the hospital, I told you that I had the idea of quitting in my heart.
I have done so many business mergers and acquisitions before, and although the world has talked about it, none of them have the idea of murdering my subordinates.
Why is it so difficult to do a good thing?
I say to you in frustration that sometimes, I really feel that people in the world do not deserve such help.
You smile and say, "The saying that the world doesn't deserve help is not logically rigorous." Because, the so-called rescue is to help those who are unable to help themselves. If the other party is very worthy of help, he actually doesn't need outside help. ”
You say: "Didn't you tell me that Kaohsiung once told you in your previous life that the first basic skill of doing charity is to be wronged." Because those who need help are often not people with the right way of thinking and excellent ability to act, they will be in trouble Emperor Jing is unable to stand on their own and save themselves. Since we have the problem of incorrect way of thinking, not good enough ability to act, and suffer deeply, we often do not respond well to the help we expect. ”
For example, "It's like us jumping into a river to save a drowning man." Because the drowning person can't swim or can't swim at the moment, and is suffocated and tortured to the point that life is worse than death, he generally will not cooperate with the rescue correctly, but will die to save the rescuer, or even kill the rescuer, at this moment, he will not have gratitude or understanding for the rescuer at all. So, can we say, he doesn't deserve to be rescued? Shall we continue to save such people? ”
I was slowly calmed down by what you said.
You say, "My dear, if we go to work with the mentality of giving grace and hoping to repay the needy, in the end, we will not necessarily be able to alleviate the pain of the other party, but will make our own heart very painful, and then, because we cannot bear the pain in our hearts, we will lose our original heart of righteousness and courage. ”
For example, "Doing the work of helping the needy is a bit like a husband who is a companion to the birth, stretching out his arm for the mother to scratch and even bite." As long as her pain is relieved a little bit and the child can be born safely, whether she was kind to us at that time, whether she was grateful or not, whether her attitude was rational, whether she was mad, whether she scolded us or even punched and kicked, it was not within the scope of consideration. Aren't we volunteering to go into the delivery room to accompany the delivery of the baby just to endure all this? Come and share the pain with those who are suffering. ”
Under the analysis and persuasion of your clear words, I feel deeply ashamed of the retreat of my philanthropy.
I should also be as generous as you, so firm, and so indifferent.
No matter what happens, we should continue to do this hospice care for the dying.
(c)
It is gratifying to know that with our perseverance, there are many voices around the world that have begun to support the cause.
More than two years later, the business has been understood and accepted by more and more people. The touching stories that happened in Anxiang Hospital, and the touching moments at the candlelight farewell party, are also increasingly appearing in the media, and some have even been written and adapted into films, television works and online short dramas. Mainstream public opinion is gradually shifting in a positive direction.
I get a lot of emails every day from my public mailbox encouraging us to keep doing and open these hospitals a little bit more and closer to where they live.
There are many patients who have died at Anxiang Hospital, and they want to see us and my wife before they die.
They took me by the hand and said to me in various languages, "Thank you".
Their families also wrote letters of thanks to us in various languages.
Sometimes we also receive pictures of newborn babies. These children are the gifts that those dying leave to their loved ones who are still alive during their stay in our hospitals.
We later made a huge wall of smiling faces out of these pictures of newborn babies.
At the entrance of all Comfort Hospital, applicants can see this wall of smiling babies as soon as they enter.
Many people enter the door for the first time, when they see these smiling faces, their hearts are deeply shocked, the haze is swept away, and they can't help but be infected by this pure smiling face.
Just as birth is gratifying, when life is up, fate is over, and it is also gratifying to be able to leave this world peacefully and with joy and unwillingness.
(iv)
Since we started our career at the age of 42, we have persevered in such a complex environment.
It continued for decades until it gained worldwide recognition and eventually became an official UNESCO philanthropic project.
By the time I passed away, 3,886,421 patients had been cared for by our Comfort Fund and Comfort Hospital, and they had passed away peacefully and happily.