Tokyo Literary Godfather

"The name of our club is [Tanhui Club]. It is a joint club led by Tokyo University of Literature and Art and involving multiple schools. The purpose of our club is to provide hospice care to people who are about to lose their lives. It is a public welfare organization organize."

"Why is it called this name? Tanhuo Society, does it have any significance?"

"Yes." The student interviewed nodded and said, "We think death is a long winter, and the process of waiting for death is even more so. So I hope to give the dying people some warmth in their last season of life. This This is our original intention of forming this society.”

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A public welfare organization whose members are all composed of students has now entered people's field of vision. A joint university club named [Tanhui Club] was reported on the news programs of NHK TV station and TTV TV station.

The origin of this club was a student from Tokyo University of Literature and Art, who planned to start a club on the theme of "death". Once the club's recruitment flyers were sent out, many students were attracted to join the club. Japanese students are dying for their second grade. They have intracranial orgasms when they see words like "death".

But after joining the society, I found that I had nothing to do except to dress up as the God of Death or King Yama and study and discuss the death culture and funeral rituals of various countries.

But once anything is studied, it loses its mystery and appeal. Seeing the members starting to quit the club one by one, the president was very anxious. Just at this time, I heard people around me discussing a recently played drama: "The White Tower".

Since Tokyo University of Literature and Art has now become a fan support group of Kei Fujiwara, the entire university is almost full of Kei Fujiwara fans. As the most popular alumni in the history of this university, every new work of Kei Fujiwara will be promoted by students.

The president of the Death Research Society was not very interested in Kei Fujiwara at first, but he couldn't help but his friends kept talking about it in his ears, so he couldn't help but watch a few episodes, and he was suddenly attracted, and he caught up with the latest episode. I saw the plot in the play where a female medical representative is suffering from cancer and her time is running out.

Because she is just an ordinary person and has an incurable terminal disease, almost everyone except Satomi Shuji, the other male protagonist of the TV series, does not care about her life or death. A person who is destined to die can neither enrich the achievements of doctors nor bring large donations or positive reputation. Staying in the hospital is just a waste of resources. So the female hospital representative was persuaded by the doctors to leave the hospital, took the bus alone, and went home to wait for her death.

In the play, Satomi Shuji was also greatly touched by this incident and began to reflect on whether the hospital could do a better job in providing patients with end-of-life care.

The Naniwa University Medical School in the TV series does not seem to have made any obvious changes, but instead sneered at Satomi Shuji's "women's kindness". But outside the TV, the president of the Death Research Society who was watching TV was inspired.

What a terrible thing it is to be alone and waiting to die... The president couldn't help but think in his heart. Someone once rated a person's degree of loneliness. The degree of loneliness ranges from shallow to deep, including eating alone, watching movies alone, celebrating birthdays alone... and finally seeing a doctor and having surgery alone. But none of the above seems to be comparable to a person waiting quietly for death.

This level of loneliness is simply more terrifying than death.

The president couldn't help but shudder. He couldn't help but remember that when he was alone in Tokyo many years ago, he almost stayed in the hospital alone for several months because he stepped on a thumbtack. The feeling was so uncomfortable that it made people want to jump off the building. …

For a moment, I felt sincere sympathy for the female hospital representative in the TV series who was silently waiting to die alone.

But after all, the female hospital representative is just a fictional character created in the TV series, but there are many such prototype characters in reality.

He learned about the existence of many such people during daily discussions in the Death Research Society. They have no relatives or lovers. They are lying alone in the hospital bed, gradually losing their lives... Perhaps, if someone can devote a little energy to accompany them through the last days of their lives, it would be good. Even if it's just a stranger.

Thinking of this, the president of the Death Research Society turned on his computer and looked through posts about the TV series "The White Tower". He remembered that when browsing posts before, he saw someone saying that he was waiting to die alone.

After finding it, he started typing on the keyboard after some hesitation.

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The next day, he told the members about his club's new plan. The club's activity goals had changed, from COS to the God of Death and the King of Yama, to a more meaningful job, providing help to those who were helpless and without family members. Friends give hospice care.

The first person they care about is the woman who shared her experience on the Internet.

Originally, the club members just regarded this matter as an ordinary club task, but when these people actually participated and saw a pale girl smiling in front of them, and even died in front of them not long after, this group of people The minds of college students were shocked.

They suddenly realized that their activity this time was different from the previous ones. It was no longer a small, meaningless entertainment activity. So some people launched it, while others decided to give up other meaningless club activities and concentrate on participating in the hospice care work of this club.

The president also officially changed the name of his club to "Tanhuo Club".

After some time, NHK reporters found the person in charge of Tanhusha.

Their news gathering department got the news, so they came to interview.

The reason is that they were the first female deceased in hospice care. Before she died, she wrote a letter and submitted it to a magazine.

In the letter, she thanked this group of college students for accompanying her in the last moments of her life, "Although this group of kids deceived me... none of them were as handsome as Satomi Shuji. But I am very grateful to these [little liars], who used At the last moment of my life, I will not have the emotion of "my life is so bad". I really thank them very much."

In an interview with NHK TV station, the president of Tanhu Club also clearly mentioned that the reason why he founded this club was inspired by a TV series.

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Due to the popularity of the TV series "White Giant Tower", many viewers have become interested in various aspects of the medical field. For example, do all those famous doctors have a mistress per capita? Do professors who already have fame and status monopolize the rising channel of young doctors? Also, do people with fame, status and wealth and ordinary people face completely different treatment in the hospital?

Although some questions already have answers in their hearts, the audience still wants to hear the real voice from the industry.

There are also some medical students and students who are determined to study medicine, after watching this drama, they also have full of problems in their hearts.

Doctors are very respected and highly paid jobs in Japan, and medicine is also a very difficult profession with a low pass rate. Those who can be admitted to the first-class medical schools are almost without exception the one-in-a-million academic masters. It was hard to get into medical school, but this TV series tells you that if you don't have a wealthy father-in-law to back you up, it may be difficult to get ahead.

Some medical students even raised this question directly during the question-and-answer session of a well-known medical professor's lecture - is there a clear or detailed assessment standard for the promotion of young doctors, or does it have to be like a politician? Just do a good job in human relations? If everyone is engaged in politics, who is in charge of medical research?

He choked the medical professor who was on the podium and didn't know how to answer for a while.