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Mei-Liun junior high school (2005 CyberFair Project ID 3892)
Taiwan,
Hualien
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 3. Business and Community Organizations
We estimate 6 student(s) from 13 to 15 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Without the prosperity of a big city, Hualien is the rural one with friendliness and unsophisticatedness. Enclosed between the towering Central Mountain Range and the azure Pacific Ocean, Hualien owns some beautiful countryside scenery, rich natural resources, and unique humane property. The Heart Lotus Ward, set up by Tzu Chi General Hospital, is the first palliative care ward for terminally ill patients in eastern Taiwan. The Heart Lotus Ward was established in Hualien where is the right place to practice the concept of "respect life" and humanity. In addition, it fully reveals its characteristics of love and concerns, and helps terminal cancer patients complete the last part of their lives with dignity.
Project Description: Recently, the rate of committing suicide has increased year by year, so “commit suicide” has jumped into the top-ten death illnesses in Taiwan recently. Actually, the choice of committing suicide can not solve any problems and it just leaves so many painful burdens for the other people, it is really not a wisdom decision to do so. There are even extremely cases that some people they carry their children to end their lives, or they set up fires and bring the harms to other people. Hence, the Life Education in schools is becoming an important task nowadays. The spirit for Life Education is emphasizing on respecting your life. No matter you are poor or rich, destitute or wealthy; we need to treasure and to respect every life, even for those very ill patients, they should also have their proper care and dignity. If people can respect their own live, they can not only elaborate the functions of their lives but also do something do good for other people. We have interviewed the only one palliative care ward for terminally ill patients- The Heart Lotus Ward that has a professional team. They pay a lot of attention on illness patients who are tortured by cancer, and helps terminal cancer patients complete the last part of their lives with dignity. We can also find some good examples on them. “Death” is unwilling to be faced in our society, but death is just like withered flowers. By way of observing the doctors and nurses in The Heart Lotus Ward, we can find out the ideas of respecting lives from them, and let us understand how brief and changeable our lives are. Owing to that, we should treasure our everyday life and then face the death without any fear.