Old couple earns respect for donating their bodies
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A senior couple in Putuo District recently signed an agreement to donate their bodies for medical research after they die.
Cai Keming, 80, and his wife Liu Guoying, 77, are active in charity and community work. They used to take care of a neighbor for 20 years and that neighbor bequeathed her house to them out of gratitude.
A year ago, another neighbor had a big quarrel with her children over buying a grave site. After that, the couple would talk about death every night before going to sleep and discuss whether to have a burial under a tree or in the sea until they heard about body donation.
Liu was abandoned by her parents as a child and grew up in an orphanage. She is grateful to the society and wants to do something in return after her death. She decided to donate her body after death and her husband, formerly a serviceman, agreed with her. They signed an agreement with a government agency with their two sons in presence.
The couple’s two sons said they respect their parents’ decision to donate their bodies after death and they will follow their example in the future.
For 20 years, they took care of an elderly woman who lived alone and was too weak to cook her own meal. Liu would buy food for her every day from her factory canteen and treated the woman like her own mother.
The couple did a lot of things for their neighbor until she died. In her will, the old lady bequeathed a quarter of her house to the couple and her decision was supported by her own relatives.
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