giovedì, gennaio 27, 2005
:: erm, think twice the next time you share a lift ::today i was in the lift of a hospital... at a certain level, a patient was wheeled into the lift in his bed, together with two orderlies... he looked like he was asleep, with some blankets... at level 1, i got out... then i realised, oops, the lift is going to basement... ie. mortuary. there's nothing else in b1 except the mortuary and the link way to the staff canteen* i guess, they don't want to cover up the dead, for fear there might be panic in the lift? or maybe then no one would want to share the lift? hmmm... on the other hand, if i had passed away, i'd rather be transported there in peace... and without pple 'ogling' at me... someone remarked, it might actually be 'good' for the dead, cuz pple would wonder whether he was alive/dead. i dunno how to explain that concept, but it made -some- sense. then. next time i share a lift, i should be more observant... someone remarked on the dusky appearance, i thought that was just weathered skin... i probably sound like some cold-hearted, impassionate creep right now... but i think it's important to see death as part and parcel of life... that i could probably blog about death like i blog about my cousin having a new baby... right?
one concern was... what if the patient had passed away from an infectious disease? how would he/she be transported to the morgue? is it safe to use public areas to do so? someone tried hard not to breathe in the lift today, but alas... didn't work.
*come to think about it, i cannot imagine one floor serving two such different purposes...
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