Chronicle of a Thai hospice

Complete deconstruction of the dying, of the volunteer, and of the ‘charity business’. This is not simply a journalistic text, but also touches on fundamental questions of morality. The medical mistakes, the unjust deaths, the AIDS, the naive idealism, the helplessness, the practicality or the absurdity are realities which immerse us in the relativity of values. Throughout this book kindness progressively becomes the recurring theme, and will be analysed until its final expression. This book is not fictitious; it is a true account of what occurred between 1996 and 2004 in the hospice known as Watprabanampu in Lopburi, Thailand. The author, the physician of the ward, was the privileged witness to all. He describes a cadaver which filled two pages of ‘Life Magazine’, and of the child ‘Tonn’ who plays his own role in an atrocious movie visible on ‘YouTube’. Finally, the physician shares all with us on his website www.STYLITE.net.