Prologue
We The Living Few
~ · ~ · ~
PROLOGUE
~ · ~ · ~
Thank you for confirming your registration!
You are scheduled to join our 12th Orientation Program on the 8th of August, 11:00 at the VITA Headquarters in Daegu.
We look forward to seeing you! Meanwhile, please read a short message from our Founder and CEO, Dr. Kim Junmyeon.
I have a faint memory from my childhood where I squeeze in between my parents at night and my mother reads me a story. Any story. Sometimes, she just makes them up. Other times, she just actually reads whatever it is written on the book she picked up on the side. My dad, on the other hand, would put down whatever it was on his hand. Sometimes, it's a book about work; other times, it's just a pen and paper. Then, he would take his glasses off and turn to me. He would pat me gently — over and over — as my mother's soothing voice serenades me to sleep.
Then I would wake up and realize, it was all just a dream.
I had no memory of my parents. Not a single one. They passed away a few days after I was born and for a while, I was consumed by anger. I wanted to avenge my parents for their — as I would all it — untimely death. They were victims of a suicidal man's fit of rage at the same hospital where I was born. His own child didn't survive through nine months and was stillborn. This event ticked him and had him on a rampage. A wild one that cost the lives of 35 adults and 4 newborn infants.
I wasn't sure if I could call myself lucky to have survived such ordeal. Until I met the man who had murdered my parents. I was just a striving college student, wanting to hold my parents in my arms once again. On that day, he apologized to me and said this: “If I could, I would give my life to the people who need it more. If I could, I would take my own life and give it all.” And then it hit me.
Maybe we could. Maybe we should.
And I began developing VITA, the world’s first methodological, and industrial physician-aided-dying program. At VITA, we believe in the value of every person’s life. What may seem like worthless, repetitive day-to-day to you, maybe a gift to others.
Thank you for choosing VITA.
Live on,
Kim Junmyeon
Founder & CEO
~ · ~ · ~
Comments