Postponed Tokyo Paralympics to Start on Aug 24 2021
The Tokyo Summer Paralympics, postponed by one year due to the new coronavirus outbreak, will run from Aug. 24 to Sept. 5, 2021, the organizing committee for the games said.
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‘“Understanding” makes my heart lighter’, the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient on why she writes a blog
“The reason I started blogging and Twitter was the story of a patient I heard from a helper. The woman, who is still young, has been fighting illness since she was born with cerebral palsy. She seems to have difficulty in pronouncing words and can express her feelings only occasionally.”
As her lung function declined further, “I’m scared to die slowly,” wrote the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient
“In short, I’m scared to die slowly. The popular saying is “I want to die when I die”. It’s scary just to imagine that you are suffocating…ALS is truly unpredictable. But I know I can’t die unless my lung function fails. The contradiction cannot be resolved.”
Former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara criticized after calling ALS a “business disease” on Twitter
In a tweet posted on July 27, Shintaro Ishihara called ALS an “occupational disease”, and some on Twitter pointed out that “business disease” refers to “an intractable disease that has been thought to come at the expense of bad business,” and was at best a rude or derogatory term.
“I see my face once every two months” writes the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient
“It’s a sad story, but I haven’t accepted my illness yet. It’s been nearly seven years.”
Health experts call alleged assisted death of woman with ALS “fundamentally different” from previous cases due to payment issue
Health experts are calling the case of two doctors arrested last week on suspicion of assisting in the death of a 51-year-old woman with ALS “fundamentally different” from past euthanasia cases that led to other doctors’ convictions for murder in Japan, because she allegedly asked them to kill her for money on Twitter.
Woman with ALS Asked for Referral to Arrested Doctor
The then attending doctor of Yuri Hayashi declined the referral request because of skepticism about the fact that the patient did not specify the address of the hospital the doctor in question was working at, informed sources said.
“I think it’s wonderful that the rate of ventilation is high in Japan” writes the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient
In a blog post on June 4 2018 entitled ‘View of life and death and euthanasia’, Hayashi notices that the use of respirators in Europe and America is low, although praises that ventilators are at least available in Japan as it seems to signify that at since it is an option that it “means that such an environment is in place.”
“Life saved by Euthanasia…there is a soul that can be saved” from the blog of the late Yuri Hayashi, ALS patient
On May 27 2018, Hayashi wrote a blog post entitled ‘Life saved by Euthanasia’: Hayashi seems to suggest that a person who is considering ending their life because of a condition like ALS, might have better mental health if they don’t “have to hurry and commit suicide.”
Blind man falls onto tracks, fatally hit by train at JR Asagaya Station in Tokyo
Mitsunobu Yoshimoto had a disability certificate for an eye disease, and Yoshimoto’s white cane has been found on the scene. There is no barrier on the platform at the station to prevent someone from falling, and the camera that was installed showed that Yoshimoto stepped off and fell onto the track. The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the cause of Mr. Yoshimoto’s fall.
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