He's a hero!

Today we went to the hospital to visit Papa Tan and observant dar dar noticed this old man diagonally opposite Papa Tan, trying to strangle himself with a towel! Dar dar signalled to me but I didn't believe so I told him to take a closer look first and check whether the towel is wrapped around his neck or covering his neck only. Dar dar took a closer look and true enough, he was trying to strangle himself as he pulls at the towel and his face was turning purple. OMG!

So we called for the nurse who came by to check and try to take the towel away. At that instance, the old man cried out and held the towel tightly in his hand that the nurse had to use force to pull the towel away. He cried as he mumbled, "I want to die..".. and mentioned feeling pain here and there, better to die.. sigh..

We also heard that this was not his first attempt to commit suicide, the other time he used the "call for help" wire and coil it around his neck to strangle himself but he was caught by the nurses.

So sad to see him so wanting to end his life... Why would one person choose to end his/her life? Is there nothing that can be done? But I must say it takes a lot of courage to do it..

We heard him mention that he is 85 years old already but to us, he doesn't look that old.. Wanted to go over and tell him, "Uncle, you are really 85? You look younger than your age leh" to cheer him up..

Think positive, anything can be done one!!! As the Chinese saying goes, chuan dao qiao tou zi ran zhi! Ai zai... ;)..