The funeral of Himeden
First Sunday in April 2017, 3 p.m.
Yuli's farewell ceremony has just ended.
The venue was located in the Catholic Church of St. Peter, which was surrounded by rows of snow birch trees, white and covered with snow powder, like silver inlaid on the branches, and like a pure and immaculate maiden, symbolizing a kind of beauty and warmth.
They have a longer history than this new Catholic Church, and they are accustomed to seeing the vicissitudes of the world and the joys and sorrows.
In April, it is already spring, and even St. Peter's cold region, which is covered in ice and snow all year round, is gradually starting to warm, and the rows of snow birch trees show signs of "weeping", as if they are also seeing off Yuri.
However, the previous ritual was completely inconsistent with the stereotypical adjective solemnity.
There were only five people in attendance, including his uncle, who was the chief mourner, but on the other side, there were hundreds of people in their twenties and thirties who attended in the name of friends.
Almost all of them were doctors and nurses from the hospital where Yuli was staying.
With the exception of Yuri's attending doctor, Tegu, and Jasmine and six or seven other people, most of the other medical staff participated in the event on behalf of others.
It is not that those who are replaced do not want to come in person, but they ...... There is simply no way to leave the intensive ward.
So, two days ago, the sterile isolation room where Yuri had stayed for ten years had become her final goodbye to her friends in the intensive care area.
As for why Yuri, who almost never leaves the sterile isolation room, became friends with so many people, in fact, because of a man's proposal two years ago to form a large family through the Internet.
- Isis Chat Room.
Wouldn't it be even more desperate for people to communicate with each other, people say, who have developed despair about the harsh reality?
No...... Since the appearance of the Isis Chat Room, they have been filled with anticipation for tomorrow, and hope has been born in their hearts.
Effort, effort, effort...... Work hard to live until tomorrow!
Because...... Tomorrow - and friends are waiting.
Just one sentence of "see you tomorrow" can become the strength of countless seriously ill patients to survive.
Although sometimes, I have worked hard, struggled, and fought hard for the word "see you tomorrow", but I still can't hold out until tomorrow.
Suddenly, one day, someone disappeared from the chat room for several days in a row.
Maybe this person, from now on, will not appear again.
A small farewell ceremony for this person will also take place in the Isis Chat Room.
They will grieve โ from the heart, because they are partners.
They will mourn in silence โ from the heart, because they are partners.
They will prayโfrom the heart, because they are partners.
They want Isis's partner to recover.
When I heard the news of my partner's recovery, I was even happier than being treated.
Yes, for these people, there is not only despair, but also hope.
A small hope will shine brightly for those who have completely despaired, and it is a kind of salvation.
What is puzzling is that in addition to the hundreds of people in the church who are holding farewell ceremonies, thousands of people have gathered at the door of the Catholic Church, and this number is increasing, most of them are about in their teens to their twenties, and some are even in their fifties and sixties, so to speak, people of all ages.
If it is not upon inquiry...... They couldn't be associated with Yuli's farewell ceremony at all, and thought that some of the activities of the Catholic Church were scheduled for today.
They all came here for Yuri.
Some people even made an appointment on the Internet, met from a nearby city, rushed over by overnight train, and waited here early in the morning.
The relatives probably thought that Yuli had experienced more than ten years of hospitalization, and basically no friends would come to say goodbye, so they opened their mouths in surprise when they received them, and they were even more shocked and speechless to learn that the thousands of people at the door were also saying goodbye to Yuli.
In addition to the official farewell ceremony in this church, the "Isis Chat Room" is also holding a special farewell ceremony.
If you look closely, at the entrance of St. Peter's Catholic Church, thousands of people are holding mobile phones.
It may seem disrespectful to this farewell ceremony, but it is not.
They are all people who have graduated from the Isis Chat Room - recovered.
They are saying goodbye to Yuri, the partner who once gave them courage and strength.
When they came to the door of St. Peter's Catholic Church, they did not enter, but joined their companions in the "Isis Chat Room" in silence, prayed, and sent parting blessings.
Directly above Isis's chat room hangs a photo, not the haggard black and white portrait located in the church, but a smiling, energetic Yuri, who can't see any of the emaciated girls who have been tortured by HIV for ten years, Yuli in the photo is as beautiful as a goblin, as for the source of the photo is a mystery.
Yuri has set off for a distant world and will never return.
No matter how negative this is, it has become a reality.
What the hell is such a thing as life?
All life is just a carrier of genetic factors, existing to increase and perpetuate the information of its own replication, which was popular on the streets a few decades ago.
If this view is true, the HIV and human immunodeficiency virus, which has caused Yuli pain for a long time, is pure life itself. But the viruses only multiply and replicate one by one, and eventually take the life of the host, and at the same time die themselves.
Of course, they do not continue their genes by reproduction like humans, but they are transmitted to the next generation.
Although the HIV virus in Yuri's body will completely disappear with Yuri's death, there are still people who are affected by the HIV virus like Yuri.
Come to think of it, humans have been doing the same thing for thousands of years. It has taken the lives of many others in order to prioritize its own interests, and has even caused the extinction of many species, and has demanded the sacrifice of many other countries in order to ensure the security of their own countries.
If you look at the sky now, the formation of fighter planes that had taken off from the Russell base and was heading out white clouds on the other side of the spring glow.
Will humanity one day destroy the world in which it lives like a virus? Or will they lose the competition for survival with other intelligent races and be expelled......?
The latter should not have appeared in the last millennium.
Humanity has become the dominant player in this world, and if there is a biological race that can threaten them, humanity will definitely destroy them at all costs with the nuclear weapons they invented, right?
As for the former, it has already begun to happen, and the pollution of the natural environment by various industrial wastes has also cast a haze on this once beautiful blue planet.
Smog caused by dust storms and industrial pollution caused by global desertification is happening on a large scale every day.
If humanity doesn't pay attention to it anymore...... One day, they will reap the consequences of the environment they have destroyed, and they will no longer have a place to live.
When the planet became unsustainable for humans because of pollution.
Will it evolve into a new species fit for survival or will it die out entirely?
For those who are alive now, we do not know that in a few decades, or a few hundred years, humanity will face such a test......
All we can do is not to perpetuate this mistake to the next generation, to throw the problems left over from this generation to future generations, and to let future generations take on these responsibilities.
We should pay attention to these issues, not ignore them irresponsibly.
When the planet is hurt to a certain extent, it will also be angry.
Take revenge on humanity with volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis.
In the face of natural disasters, humanity is still insignificant.
Humans are the masters of this planet, but they cannot dominate it.
In the near-infinite universe โ human beings, like dust, are nothing.
Yuri once said that she could not create anything, she could not give anything - it is true that Yuri left this world without leaving her genes.
However, she deeply realized that what remained in the world did exist.
She is not afraid to face a desperate fate, fights against her and has won a streak of victories to this day, and what she tried her best to accomplish at the end of her life.
All give people a sense of strength full of indomitable progress.
The same is true for the thousands of people who have gathered here today.
Even if time washes away the memories little by little, and the memories turn into crystallization, there will definitely be something left.
Then, life is not only the genetic information transmitted by the four bases, but also the function of transporting memory, spirit, and soul without substance.
Life may be the thing that transports the heart, transmits the heart, and transports these things to the distant future.
If these things are the essence of life, perhaps in the distant future, human beings can really live forever in another form.
The emergence of a device capable of recording the spirit itself in its entirety may be a key to preventing the self-destruction of this incomplete human being.
Even though the body has perished, the spirit lives in a certain world.
Until that day comes, those who are here today, or even those who are not there, will definitely pass on Yuri's heart in their own way.
If you have a child one day, you will definitely tell him it repeatedly.
Between the slits of reality and fantasy, the story of a miraculously dazzling little girl.
"Night God Demon Magi Ji", a story that Yuri could not complete, will definitely be able to pass on to a distant era.
In that world, Yuri must still be alive.
It's not just Yuri, but the characters that Yuli gave "life" must still be alive.
It's an expectation, but it's also a wish.
Yuri is gone, but she has left a lot of things behind.
It seems to have been blessed by Yuri.
The day after Yuri's burial.
In the "Isis's chat room", it was like a complete explosion.
The first to speak the good news was Rohm.
He had acute lymphoid leukemia, which had been on for three years. Have been treated with chemotherapy for ...... In other words, the leukemia cells in the body disappeared temporarily, but they recurred last year......
After relapse, I was told that the only effective treatment was bone marrow transplantation. But none of the family's white blood cell types match the ...... There is also no one in the bone marrow bank who can be a donor.
Now only a combination of various drugs called rescue therapy can be used to aim for remission.
New drugs and experimental drugs are also actively used, and the side effects are serious......
The doctor had recently told him that if he didn't have a suitable bone marrow donor, he would only have three months.
Of course, Rohmon knew the meaning of these words.
I also understand and accept that when the time comes, people will die.
No matter how you struggle, there is always a reality of helplessness.
Already, I've been tidying up my mood since a long time ago, thinking about trying to live the rest of the time, and then follow in Yuri's footsteps, but......
This morning his attending doctor told him that a matching bone marrow donor had been found.
That means that it is possible for Rohmon to be healed, and he may have a long life ahead of him, and he will be able to live......
On this day, Rohmon cried, crying very sadly, and made an appointment with Yuri.
I'm going to find her in another world.
But a voice appeared in his ear.
"Congratulations, Romon, you have to work hard and live strong with your friends. I'm going to be mad if you come too soon! โ
The second piece of good news is Dark.
He suffers from muscular ossifying nerve palsy, and no more than 10 cases of rare disease have been detected worldwide. The joints of the whole body will stiffen within a few years of the onset of the disease, and slowly calcification will appear in these places, and the soft tissues and muscles will gradually disappear, ossify, and eventually become living stone sculptures.
The most terrifying thing is that this petrification phenomenon can spread to his brain, paralyzing all his nerves, and eventually turning his brain into a stone.
It is a terminal illness for which there is no cure.
Dark was already paralyzed and could only be pushed in a wheelchair.
The phenomenon of petrification has begun to spread to the brain, and the collective judgment of the doctors, like that of Rohm, is that he has only three months to live at most.
That's why Romon told Yuri that he and Dark would soon go to that world to find Yuri.
However, like Rohm, Dark received good news today.
Among the experimental drugs used on him, ingredients were found to be effective in treating the condition.
This means that the condition will no longer be an incurable terminal disease.
If there is a patient with the same disease as Dark in the future, it can be treated.
As the subject of medical experiments, Dark not only saved himself, but also completely defeated a terminal illness for the medical community.
Good news broke out one after another in the "Isis Chat Room".
Countless medical miracles were also born on this day.
No one knows exactly what's going on.
It's a world wonder like no other.
The tremendous power that envelops all worlds and allows them to churn and flow is slowly manifesting itself.
- A man with long black hair that would make any woman jealous.
A strong wind blew, and the figure was blown away, went to a distant place, and then disappeared.