If Only Today Were Tomorrow
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• Original title : 오늘이 내일이면 좋겠다
• Price : 18,000KRW
• Product Dimensions :
140x188, 312pages
• Publication Date : 2025-01-03
• ISBN : 979-11-6981-348-8
Book Information & Summary
Written by Nam Yu Ha
JTBC documentary “Zurich Diary” original work
Because she loved life more than anyone, she fought fiercely until the end for her dignity.
The last journey of a mother with terminal cancer and her daughter
The eighth Korean who died at the Swiss assisted death organization Dignitas. This accurate and brief fact alone cannot explain the late Cho Soon-bok. The writer, Nam Yu-ha, wrote the following about her: She loved life more than anyone else, laughed louder when she was in trouble, wanted to live with cancer cells, and looked up toward the sky until the end after deciding when to end her suffering.
“If Only Today Were Tomorrow” is a record of the late Cho Soon-bok, who flew 8,770km to Switzerland with a sick body to exercise her final right of self-determination after a long battle with illness. At the same time, it is also the story of a novelist, Nam Yu-ha, who watched, accompanied, and returned to Korea after her dignified death as a daughter and a human being. The time they spent together, and perhaps the time they could have spent together, remind us that the preciousness of life and dignified death are deeply connected.
This book calmly reveals the existence of people in suffering, who rely on the fact that suffering can end and become the hope for survival at the same time. Therefore, this book is completed as a story about dignified life, not death.
The mother filmed the documentary until the moment of death, hoping that patients like herself would one day meet their end in Korea. The writer wrote about this whole process to remember her mother and to convey her courage. It is to find the meaning of her mother's death in creating a “different tomorrow for others.” This book is a record of the special love between a mother and daughter, a brilliant account of one person's struggle to protect her dignity, and a profound question about “dignified life” that she poses to her contemporaries.
JTBC documentary “Zurich Diary” original work
Because she loved life more than anyone, she fought fiercely until the end for her dignity.
The last journey of a mother with terminal cancer and her daughter
The eighth Korean who died at the Swiss assisted death organization Dignitas. This accurate and brief fact alone cannot explain the late Cho Soon-bok. The writer, Nam Yu-ha, wrote the following about her: She loved life more than anyone else, laughed louder when she was in trouble, wanted to live with cancer cells, and looked up toward the sky until the end after deciding when to end her suffering.
“If Only Today Were Tomorrow” is a record of the late Cho Soon-bok, who flew 8,770km to Switzerland with a sick body to exercise her final right of self-determination after a long battle with illness. At the same time, it is also the story of a novelist, Nam Yu-ha, who watched, accompanied, and returned to Korea after her dignified death as a daughter and a human being. The time they spent together, and perhaps the time they could have spent together, remind us that the preciousness of life and dignified death are deeply connected.
This book calmly reveals the existence of people in suffering, who rely on the fact that suffering can end and become the hope for survival at the same time. Therefore, this book is completed as a story about dignified life, not death.
The mother filmed the documentary until the moment of death, hoping that patients like herself would one day meet their end in Korea. The writer wrote about this whole process to remember her mother and to convey her courage. It is to find the meaning of her mother's death in creating a “different tomorrow for others.” This book is a record of the special love between a mother and daughter, a brilliant account of one person's struggle to protect her dignity, and a profound question about “dignified life” that she poses to her contemporaries.