2003-10-30 14:09:04Fiddler
A Sad Day III
There is Chant for the Death everyday by the volunteers, and it reminds me and sicken me again how people rumored that Tzu Chi charge for this kind of service. Whoever has played part spreading the rumor, they should see the hands that were offered to help and support this family I witnessed this week.
The wife has written a short essay that she will read at the service Sat. morning, and it broke my heart to learn that they have only been married for one and half years, but now their baby will born without the fatherly love. This is an extraordinary strong young woman that shed no tears for three days, but when she saw the “Y” shaped cut on her husband’s corpse; the huge black coroner caught her as she collapsed on the spot.
The teary mother was so calm when she said her farewell to her son “You are my good son, and now you go ahead follow Buddha’s footstep. I know you were in this world for a reason, and now you leave for a reason also.” Somehow the mother had dried her tears and gained calm and peace through the daily chanting. She even joked at little during today’s lunch about how full she was after so many kind volunteers stuffing food into her stomach.
I read the emails sent by the young man’s colleagues from Hsin Chu. They thought it was a sick rumor on Monday, but now they realized they have indeed lost a dedicated R&D engineer, a good friend, and a decent fellow. This is a young man that most of Silicon Valley people can relate to, schooling in C.T. University in Hsin Chu and working in optical field,; isn’t he just one of our own brothers? I saw his handsome and graceful face through the little window at the coroner’s office, I cried for this never met brother……
~~Fiddler 10/25/2003
The wife has written a short essay that she will read at the service Sat. morning, and it broke my heart to learn that they have only been married for one and half years, but now their baby will born without the fatherly love. This is an extraordinary strong young woman that shed no tears for three days, but when she saw the “Y” shaped cut on her husband’s corpse; the huge black coroner caught her as she collapsed on the spot.
The teary mother was so calm when she said her farewell to her son “You are my good son, and now you go ahead follow Buddha’s footstep. I know you were in this world for a reason, and now you leave for a reason also.” Somehow the mother had dried her tears and gained calm and peace through the daily chanting. She even joked at little during today’s lunch about how full she was after so many kind volunteers stuffing food into her stomach.
I read the emails sent by the young man’s colleagues from Hsin Chu. They thought it was a sick rumor on Monday, but now they realized they have indeed lost a dedicated R&D engineer, a good friend, and a decent fellow. This is a young man that most of Silicon Valley people can relate to, schooling in C.T. University in Hsin Chu and working in optical field,; isn’t he just one of our own brothers? I saw his handsome and graceful face through the little window at the coroner’s office, I cried for this never met brother……
~~Fiddler 10/25/2003