“Attachment to life is not always beautiful” writes the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient

By Barrier Free Japan

August 18 2020

The Kyoto District Public Prosecutors Office on Thursday August 13 indicted two doctors for allegedly killing a woman with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an intractable disease, at the victim’s request.

The deceased, a woman aged 51 named Yuri Hayashi, ran a blog and a Twitter account.

Following her post on September 23 2018 titled ‘Beautiful soul’, on September 26 2018 made a post titled “The difficulty of denying “living”:

The difficulty of denying “living”

“Beautiful soul” that I wrote the other day.

I received some comments from several people and noticed again.

Attachment to life is not always beautiful. I feel love and a beautiful soul only when I face the problem of life, struggle, and keep crying. I got an opinion.

Thinking that I am trying to escape from the suffering of illness, that I am not obsessed with life, I am a weak and useless person,

I thought that I hadn’t escaped the guilt and guilt of choosing “death” yet.