如果還有明天

by 社團法人台灣生命教育學會病人自主研究中心

自終而始，在病痛與生死中，看見生命的意義

丁菱娟‧于美人‧王小棣‧朱　平‧吳庶深‧余　湘
周守民‧陳郁秀‧陳建仁‧孫效智‧張曼娟‧張淑惠
曾昭旭‧黃健予‧黃勝堅‧楊玉欣‧楊秀儀‧趙可式
趙自強‧趙翠慧‧鍾欣凌‧譚敦慈‧嚴長壽‧釋慧開

─────────────24位影響力人士／淬鍊共筆

善終，不倚運氣，靠的是選擇與準備
一路向死的人生，該怎麼活，才不枉此生？
談論疾病與死亡，原來是為了「活得更好」？
我們總像不會死去般地活著，但生老病亡，可曾停下等待任何一人？
若終將一死，如何才能不遺憾、不害怕的離開？

24篇來自病人、照顧者、甚至有過多次瀕死經驗的人、
曾與摯愛告別或即將臨終的人──他們以生命淬鍊的真實故事。

在「如果還有明天」時，像「如果沒有明天」般活著

本書以對立概念的思辨碰撞：昨日與明日、無常與幸運、離別與相遇、生命與死亡，一篇篇面對病痛及生死情感的調適與跨越，描繪出人生的樣貌，在看似谷底的黑暗中，看見新的體驗與啟蒙，引領我們思考生命的本質，讓生命的目的變得清晰，終能為自己與所愛之人做出愛的行動與選擇。

當疾病與死亡不再是個禁忌的話題，日積月累地「好好生活」，方能轉為

257 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 26, 2022

Reviews

[K · Rating 4 out of 5]

Couldn’t help to think of this little story many many times. “ There’s an old veteran who grew apples in Lishan. He had liver cancer and was in and out of the ward where I worked. He had no family, no friends, no money - nothing at all. I took special care of him. Every time he returned to the hospital for a follow-up, he would travel all the way down the mountain carrying a big bag of apples he had grown himself, just to give them to me. I would thank him with tears in my eyes. Later, his condition worsened, and he was hospitalized again. I knew very well that this time, he would never climb the mountain back to his home in Lishan. But no one dared to break the taboo of talking about death. “ No family, no friends, no money - that’s me too, isn’t it? So he was someone who followed the nationalist government to Taiwan and just stayed here, alone, never started another family. But he treated the people he met in life sincerely, and because of that, he was remembered. Even if he died alone, as long as someone remembers them, it means they didn’t pass through life like they never existed. What can we do that would last forever? Do we even need to be eternal? Maybe it doesn’t matter. Who am I, anyway? Is that even important?