第２４１回 Workshop報告（５月２７日）/参加者１６名

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《今回のworkshop　》
○workshop参加人数：16名
○【前半】：Omiyage
○【後半】：Living long and medical treatment
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＜Agenda＞

Omiyage

  After the Covid-19 outbreaks, tourism finally came back. You might have purchased “omiyage” from the Golden Week vacation. While the word “omiyage” translates to “souvenir” in English, the concept of omiyage is different in that it’s a gift that you buy for others, rather than yourself. Specifically, it’s a gift that you buy for your work colleagues, family, and friends after returning from a trip. For example, I recently purchased individually packed mango flavored candies for my colleagues as my Malaysian trip’s omiyage. Let’s talk about this our unique tradition.

<Questions>

Q1. What is your hometown omiyage? Where can you buy it?

Q2. What is the most unique omiyage that you received?

Q3. If you were an omiyage shop staff, what would you like to sell?

How do you appeal to customers?

<Extra question>

Q4. Do you think the culture of omiyage is necessary, even we can order anything through online from anywhere?

<References>

Guide to Omiyage in Japan (おみやげ): What is It And Where to Buy Them?

https://www.hawaiianairlines.com/hawaii-stories/culture/omiyage

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＜Agenda＞

Living long and medical treatment

Japan has the longest life expectancy in the world. The fact sounds good, but it’s not actually simple. It doesn’t mean Japanese people tend to live long healthily. I worked as a nurse in a hospital and let me share my two experiences from that time in order to think of the reason.

　First, there was a female elderly patient who had stomach cancer and dementia. She was always lethargic and didn’t even eat enough. However, her daughter wanted her to get surgery of stomach cancer. She did it and the operation was succeeded, but she got completely confused about her situation, sometimes cried and complained about herself. She seemed not to want to live anymore.

　Second, another female elderly patient was almost dead because of colon cancer. Her doctor explained about DNAR to her daughter. DNAR stands for “do not attempt resuscitation”. When elderly patients can hardly live if they get resuscitation, most of their family choose DNAR because their family hopes they can die in peace. However, her daughter refused DNAR. When her heart stopped, she received CPR for 1 hour and she got dead. I felt her daughter just imposed her desire that “I want my mom to still live.” on her. In this case, she died, but some patients get in a vegetative state after resuscitation.

　What I’d like to tell through these experiences is that some elderly people are forced to live longer regardless of their thoughts. I believe that is one reason of Japanese long life expectancy. In my opinion, just living a long life isn’t happy. I wish Japanese elderly people could receive only medical treatment that they want to do and live long, healthy and happily.

<Questions>

1. If you could choose the way to die such as age, a place, or with whom, when you were old, what would you choose?

2. In these two cases, do you think the medical treatment was necessary? If you think it was necessary, please explain the reason. If you think it was unnecessary, what do we need in society so that elderly people who can’t show their thoughts don’t receive unnecessary medical treatment?

3. Do you want to live long with severe dementia, terminal cancer or any difficulties to live when you’re old? And why or why not?

<Reference>

DNARとは

https://www.jaam.jp/dictionary/dictionary/word/0308.html

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