"When I was born, I was so loved, but when I finally sent it to the end, I was left with only myself"
- "The Society Without a Chance"
On September 8, 1995, Zhang Ailing, 75, died in her rental house. Because she lived alone, she had been dead for 7 days when she was found.
In the summer of 2009, 62-year-old Japanese national actress Reiko Ohara collapsed at home with brain congestion. Also because of living alone, it was found that it was 3 days after the time of death.
In the hearts of Chinese, Zhang Ailing is a general existence of the "Goddess of the Republic of China", and in the hearts of the Japanese, Reiko Ohara is also a "big thing actress" level figure. Undoubtedly, they are all people who hold the moon in their hearts, and they have also fallen into the miserable situation of "lonely death".
Even if you are rich, dying alone is a terrible thing.
As a book on the theme of "the lonely old death of modern people", "The Society without a Chance" is a collection of works by veteran journalists of NHK Television. It tells the reality of the "unprovoked society" and the "unexplained death" of the lonely people in Japan.
In Japan, there are as many as 32,000 cases of unexplained deaths a year, and their identities are unknown and no one has identified them.
What is more realistic is that the story of the Japanese has really happened in China, and it may happen to you and me in the future.
"Death without a reason": Death by silence, followed by the death of no one claiming the body
Tadatoshi Omori, at the age of 33, came to Tokyo alone to seek a livelihood due to the bankruptcy of his family.
At the age of 39, he went to work in a food supply center until his retirement.
During his more than 20 years on the job, he was never late or absent from work.
Before retiring, he would go to drink with his co-workers, but after retirement, he broke off contact with the people at the catering center.
After retirement, he has always missed his hometown, but he has become the one who has no return and is unable to return to his homeland.
His father died when he was young, several of his sisters were married, and the last remaining mother in the family died after he went to Tokyo. There is no one in his hometown who will contact him.......
He learned from his classmates that he was married and had children of his own, but after the divorce, his ex-wife also broke off contact with him.
He became a truly widowed old man, and what is even more tragic is that Nobody's pension Omori Tadaori, at the age of 70, was still working hard.
It wasn't until he was 73 that he died in a rental house, "ending his life as an unknown man." ”
Among the increasing number of people stranded in the big cities who cannot return to their hometowns, how many of the young people who work in the cities will follow the same path as Tadatoshi Omori decades from now?
No one sends the end of life
One day, the funeral company received a call to say goodbye to the crematorium.
The deceased was a 76-year-old man receiving living assistance and was found in the public toilets of a cheap apartment.
"This man has a son, but it seems that he rarely interacts..."
Like this old man, who has little contact with his children and can't even contact people in the end, it is by no means an isolated case.
People who eventually go to "death without a cause" either actively or passively lose the three fates of the world: social, blood, and geographical.
They became such a group of people:
They were alive, no one was in contact with them, they had no jobs, no spouses, no children, and they did not return to their hometowns; they died, no one knew, and even if they were discovered, no one claimed their bodies, not even whose names they were, and whose lives they were summed up in a few words of posthumous claims.
"I want to hear the vocals, call it the singer's voice"
More terrible than death, sometimes it's just a silent world.
One night in December 2008, Ishida, who had lost his job and had no money in a lodging hotel, was forced to sleep on a park bench.
It was so cold that it made him shiver.
He had no other friends, his friends, just a radio capable of transmitting sound.
No one will take the initiative to contact him, and from the moment he loses his job, he seems to have lost his "deafness" for a while, without any "voice".
In his fifties, he could have asked his family and friends to help, but he said:
"I don't want to cause more trouble for my own sake."
This is the reason why the number of "orphans and no ones" in Japan is increasing day by day.
China's 92 million empty nest youth are wary of the harm of "no chance"
According to statistics, there were more than 77 million "empty nest youth" living alone in 2018, and it is expected that the data of "empty nest youth" will rise to 92 million in 2021.
Most of these people have experienced the experience of living alone, eating alone, shopping alone, and even seeing a doctor alone.
These young people, who originally had parents and friends, chose a single way of life. When I wanted to ask a friend for help one day, I found that those former friends had long since lost contact.
In the old age of the elderly living alone in Japan, who dares to say that it is not their future?
So, if you're alone, with no salary, and no friends, try to connect with the people around you. Please try to "trouble" them, only in this way can they establish a connection with each other and survive.
As the documentary says:
Man, by no means, lives on his own.
People can only survive if they are aware of their presence in the "connection" of their role.
Written to someone who is alone! To you, to me, to her/him!