109 year old man leaving the world to donate the body to be a specimen
Shandong commercial newspaper reporter Yu Na
10 month 24, 109 year old Ji'nan old man Meng Xiantao serenely separated from the world. In accordance with the wishes of the old man, his family donated the body to the hospital in the afternoon of the Red Cross of Ji'nan. He became the oldest donor in Ji'nan. Meng Lao's oldest son, Meng Qinggan, returned to Ji'nan from Taiwan. Yesterday, he buried his father's belongings with his mother and completed his father's wishes.
Meng Xiantao, who was born in the Zhang an community, was born in 1907, the seventy-second generation of Mencius. Meng Xiantao was 18 years old and joined the party to pursue advanced life. He has always had an idea that "I live to contribute to the country, and after death to dedicate the masses." In December 21, 2009, Meng Xiantao, 102 years old, insisted on signing the donation letter of body donation despite the opposition of his eldest daughter and became a volunteer of body donation.
Meng Qinggan, the oldest son of Meng Lao, is already 82 years old this year. He told reporters that the decision of his father to donate his remains was influenced by him. When Meng Lao died 20 years ago, his family had chosen a cemetery for him, but later in a communication with his eldest son, he learned that his son had signed a body of consent in Taiwan, and he decided to donate his body after his death. Though 20 years ago, when his wife died, Meng Xiantao chose the cemetery together. Even so, Meng Xiantao decided to donate his body. "He had been thinking advanced and thought he could do a good job after his death. I took his father's remains instead of his mother." Meng Qinggan said.
the old man was a primary school teacher before he retired. After signing his own donation book, he also wrote a proposal to the relevant government departments, hoping to increase the efforts to encourage people to donate their bodies. Ji'nan Central District Red Cross related personnel introduced that, because the old man is old, his body can not make organ donation, only all donations. After being preserved for a period of time, the body can be used as a specimen for medical research by medical college students.
for Meng Lao's death, the family was very sad. Meng Qinggan said that due to physical reasons, the time of visiting relatives in May was pushed to October. The 24 day was the day of his arrival in Ji'nan, and the old man who did not wait for his son came back in the morning. "Afraid to stimulate my body, at first, I did not dare to tell me at home, I know in the afternoon, I know, especially sad", because Meng Qinggan is the most sad, "5 in the afternoon, the Red Cross will come to people, I bear the grief of my father away, I feel proud for my father."