On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 8:26:55 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:01:32 -0800 (PST), dsi1
> > wrote:
>
> >On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 4:09:59 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> >> dsi1 wrote:
> >> > For doctors, it's probably a relief not to tell someone that
> >> > they're going to die or have to give them bad news.
> >> > My Chinese friend kept the news that his dad's cancer was terminal from him.
> >> > That's the Chinese way.
> >> And that's a very wrong thing to do, imo. VERY WRONG!
> >> If I knew I was going to die soon, I'd probably spend my last days doing
> >> something different.
> >>
> >> I had a friend once, got a radical cancer operation (hole in throat to
> >> breath). He lived a few more years with that crap and eventually the
> >> cancer came back and he was going to die.
> >>
> >> Doctor and his wife told him that all was fine. I didn't like the lies
> >> but it wasn't my place to tell him so I didn't. I went to visit him a
> >> couple of days before he went back for his final hospital stay.
> >>
> >> We talked about all things. He told me his past few years was nothing
> >> but a nightmare and not worth those extra years. I didn't know what to
> >> say to him but I did realize that even being lied to about "doing fine,"
> >> he knew he was dying.
> >>
> >> I'm sure he felt it...that he was getting worse, not better.
> >>
> >> He went back into the hospital a few days later and died 2 days later.
> >
> >That's just something that the Chinese like to do. I don't have any particular
> >feelings about it because it's not my culture.
> Good, then you also don't have a problem with Zwarte Piet.
Mostly, I think it's pretty wacky and funny - on so many different levels!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIXscGcdGyk