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(KARA, Japan, — Elderly Japanese are coming We by car and oh arte red bus to pray in a spccialrはeat the Kichidenji Buddhist Templef。l:a quick and p^ainl柳death,
Standing before fcheagedpil' きrims, thetemple,s prieatrecites a Sutaa, th抑beぉns a sing-song chantひftlvdr n卿的,ages, addresses and common desire of a
O^oietsu Y&inanaka, 54, a ch&er" fpl,taikaぉye man (pressed in pri-pst!y robes of blueおilk, s^id 50 6 to 600 Jaipaneきedail,visit Ki-ohideiiji' better kiioザJihis nickname "Pひfckurにtemple.,
"They come because they hope for a qmet, peacefuldeath," he said. *'I tiytogiVe他(m afee-ling of reassur&歸by saying that death is、 inevitable,like tre-もsぶ'roppmg )e&ves in ai^t雅n or cherry blossoms in spiing."
Yamanalca, wiiose-ぉ加ily has supplied the 990, year-old tf mple ■with priests for 21generations, said many of the piigrmis asK the deity to take them away for,さthey become a "bi^ぉn (?r ai)'eyes ore" to thゅfamily,
Although ttie Japanese tra(iiti-onally respもet and even honひi pai"ents £ind thもelderiy, rapid uでb:anizatioii anふindustriajiza-tion of tile |)pst-war years have brought; a w^^kenhigortheon-elose-kmtぉiiiily system, Mりre young couples prefer to Uve.sf"parately fromやheir pa-fents and fanvili" ties subsequ ently may grow slack. An incie-
acountry,i)idis;l)endsless or きlfare than most other deyelop-—e4 countriesi ai'e forced tolive alone, feeling unwanted,
ひVemmentr officials consid祉 it a gr aサ€ so c iゆp r obiem. Twenty-si?: per (!;Sn七, or 必 0,000, of tihe agedlive alone in Japaんa government survey,—.
Health and welfare mmぉti;y. officmis in T"okyQ said: "M(?re ait dm ore old pe6plゃwoリld rat.
he?"^le" th^n coptipue to fa<:e 甜cli"e(mditioiis.ラ:」ゾ
i*hey said the huhiber of sukレ d^sbypeひpl"ver the age of $4 rose 34 per cent during thelast five yearst<M,671,while the 6« VelV"airsuicide figure in Japan increased a bout 25 cent.
Yaipanaka said the nlimber of visitors has been in(jrcasing ste sdily since the "boom,,, as he called it, began five years ago. He said Japanese ne、vs med':a discovered the temple here after a besレseUing novelbrought the problem of the aged tひlight. In Tokyo, Dr. Hiroshi Moriya, lecturer at Juntendo MedicalCo】lege, formed an orga r,ほaUon of 300 el<kr】y people who幼y they do not want their Hマes prolonged needlessly by extraordinary artificialnieans. 1Medicalscience makes new
discoveries every day and doctors should not give up fighting untilno illness is incurable, he said,
*<But eacih patient ought to be the first person who deckJes to live or not tothiJik every-onie has the, right to dミe with dignity,
リぉa doctor, I,ve seenlots of oldpeひple dying miseTia'bly hooked to respiiators, tied with matubes, staring into space, ゅiyairーly not knowing w)uvt the pairtfuldays at hospital,*wer€ ■for:
He rまmmeiidsi that before an old person suffers a coma 6r a state,hef!B cひmuni(?atk)iv beco-niesimpossi'Die, he shひuld ask fa milyrtiem))ers of 'c、6Se friends to urgせdoctors to stop《?ctraordi-nary medicalcare to mammn lばe wihei€ theye is UtUe or加 h邻きof recovery.
lI<3^weV"er, his assひdationis)ri-mariふaj)lace: fぇ"frankdisetis-sionひf dea'th,}i'flping to ease fe-arえand not to advocatもniercy k)illing, he said.
"'Some peopljB come tolook aし me &sばI wei"eahangmaR , •. I,m against euthanasia and the association is certainly not &n ubasute-yama."
Ub as lite was a custom in which aged women were abandoned withaf的v rice -balls&ndl^tto die, & cひm mo TV practice insoi^ie i)artsゎf J a pan untila bout 400 years ago.
Other doctots in Japan are St illdivided over Moi'iyま,s proposals.
"Dr,Moriya,s idea【s top! sim-p)ぉtk;ヌnd even dai、ger<ius>" said T!^aroT ake mi, 7レyeゅold j):re-siぉnt of the Japan MetricalAs-sociation,:jthe cpuntry,さlargest medical(Organization, made tip oi 85,000 doctoi^s.
"Lばe oft he elderly is nole?^ preciouspart " theyoung. Itaeem^もt)hically incorrect to seに
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Tft"mi ";fT "also is wrong to化ink: a patient is the only one who sliould decide whethet io die.
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