Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Hospice Care

To commemorate Supe, I made a documentary on his illness and death. I lived closely with him in his last times, in other words, I took part in his so-called hospice care. We had always worked on interesting things together, from boxing to visual arts, and everything in between. Supe and Elsa had been my models ever since we were young – so why not when we were old as well. I can't help thinking about the justification of euthanasia when I see Supe's sufferings in the last half a year.

“Death is like birth — a mystery of Nature: the one a combination of certain elements ; the other, dissolution into the same. In short it involves nothing of which a man need feel ashamed, nothing contrary to the law of a thinking being's nature or the design of its constitution.”

Marcus Aurelius

Identifiers: pancreatic cancer, death, terminal care