《Million Dollar Baby》 (图)

过节了，电视里好戏连台：1日放了维也纳新年音乐会，我看了后半场；2日放了这部《Million Dollar Baby》。看了前半场，已近半夜12点，猜想接下来无非就是苦练成器然后打遍天下，就不想再看，去洗澡了。睡前再瞄一眼却意外地看到了不一样的结局：女主人公在比赛中被对手卑鄙地偷袭，颈椎被打断了，造成全身瘫痪，她要求教练帮助她安乐死。她的教练（Clinton Eastwood饰）处于巨大的矛盾、痛苦中。。。。。。

对于从小受到‘好死不如赖活’教育的中国人，这部电影提供了一个不同视角的生死观。

[dancingqueen]

几年前一位亲戚癌症复发并大面积转移，非常痛苦。她本人不愿意再治疗，想早点解脱，但周围的亲人却想尽一切办法延长她的生命。对于她的丈夫、女儿来讲，她多活一天都好。矛盾。。。

[highpeace]

In English the (controversial) practice of physician-assisted suicide for patients in great pain and the terminally ill is called Euthanasia, which is defined in www.m-w.com as "The act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy."

I think anyone with pride in those situation would think of this way of ending his/her life.