Previously, I wrote a diary whose title is

"I have to make a decision to "kill" my father"

The doctor who read this diary, and got me advice, that name is

"Dr.Shibara of "Shibata report" or Self-proclaimed "Dr.Shibata in cutting in two under train wheels""

gave me the following mail.

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I read this email and I was very impressed.

I thought that this e-mail is an e-mail to be read by many people. So I asked Dr.Shibata to publish the full text of the e-mail, and got permission.

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Mr. Tomoichi Ebata

First of all, I pray from the bottom of my heart that your father's soul rests in peace.

I have read your diary.

I think that you could use the expression of "killing" with your serious preparedness.

In that sense, I have killed dozens of patients so far.

That means, the principal or their family asked me to restore the health, and I could not achieve it.

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The doctor continues to kill people in units of one million a year, in terms of medical treatment but not recovering.

About half a century ago, it was clear that doctors would be willing to designate how to die, however, such paternalism has gradually become obsolete and the will of the principal and family is respected.

In a sense, this is forcing the family members to decide how to kill them.

And the doctor is a criminal.

In your column, whose title is "Work style reform(10) elderly care - Sacrifice by medical advances) you wrote, we have to face "the era when you must choose a way of killing" for the first time in the history of humanity.

Up to now, there was a time when choosing the maximum possible life extension (by ventilator or high calorie infusion) as much as possible.

I have the impression that there are many people in baby-boomers era, that feel regrets, "I made a mistake in murdering my parents(Although I can not assert it).

There is an impression that the choice of "avoiding painful treatment (that is equal to defining the death period)" is gradually becoming increasingly common with the concept of dignity death, however I think that this includes enormous amounts of repentance, generations and grudges of the previous generation.

A age of the light smell of death, we might have to learn the reality that "Someday the time will come when you decide the end of your parent's life (how to kill your parents)"

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I will kill my parents by myself as well as Mr.Ebata.

I will not give this role to someone.

I have a younger brother, but perhaps I will get my own way.(But I also think that I will break if I become a fight. It is me)

When I die, I believe that if my child decides my way of death after the contemplation even when I could not express my thought, the decision is better than a doctor as a stranger.

(I hope that my child grows up to adult who will decide the parent's death confidently.)

As such, I thought your father was blessed with a excellent filial piety.

Praying hands.

Shibata

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