Monday, May 26, 2008

Li

CF: Oedipus Lex: Some Thoughts on Swear Words and the Incest Taboo in China and the West by Youqin Wang

During the SARS crisis in Hong Kong, there was a story of a man whose mother got infected. His mother was scared of the hospitals, so he decided not to take her in for quarantine and took care of her at home.

One night, he found his mother had stopped breathing. He tried to resuscitate her with a mouth-to-mouth but she died anyways. He died the next week from SARS.

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