{"id":14318,"date":"2019-05-22T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T04:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:53:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T03:53:55","slug":"life-as-a-jenga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/life-as-a-jenga\/","title":{"rendered":"Life as a Jenga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/337669095?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Life as a Jenga\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Life and death education helps to overcome the fear of the unavoidable yet seldom publicly discussed matter. At the same time, it encourages the appreciation of life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reporters:<\/strong> <strong>Ariel Lai, Sarah Ryou, Shell Zhang, Tiffany Chong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editors: Sarah Poon, Erica Li<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asians are more conservative to\ndiscuss death publicly. It is a taboo to plan for the ultimate departure.\nTherefore, most of the time people are not well-prepared when the passing bell\nrings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone has his or her own\ninterpretation of life and death. Some think death is a reminder of the limit\nof life. It helps to realise your responsibilities and commitment can no longer\nbe fulfilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Tong, a 70-year-old street\nsweeper, life is pessimistic. \u201cI envy those people who die because Hades is\njust like a Xanadu to me, while I am still suffering in this world,\u201d Tong says.\nHe wishes to die soon as a relief for himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although suicide and aging\npopulation have been worrying matters in our society, there is still not enough\nlife education available. Many organisations hope to formulate a proper\nunderstanding of life and death so that people can navigate them with the right\nmindset instead of purely grieving the end of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life Journey Centre under the Jockey\nClub offers an interactive 60-minute experience for participants to go through\na life cycle. There is an impactful scenario in which participants lie inside a\ncoffin to reflect the decisions they made during the activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The programme is developed from a\n\u2018time tunnel\u2019 journey concept. It has four zones: \u2018Are You Ready for the\nJourney\u2019, \u2018Many Choices in Life\u2019, \u2018One-way Tunnel\u2019 and \u2018Rest in Peace\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Ho, assistant manager of Life\nJourney Centre, notes different generations have their own reflection on this\n\u2018life journey\u2019. For students, they feel regretful about how they treat their\nparents badly, whereas adults are awakened from sacrificing their dream for the\njob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think life is about a mutual\nunderstanding and tolerance at different life stages,\u201d he says. He hopes the\ncentre can serve the purpose of life education and participants can view the\nelderly from another angle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three university students also share\nthe same mission of promoting life education by setting up a bookstore at Chai\nWan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Louis Chuk, owner of Stay Within\nBookspace, believes bookstore is a good medium to deliver the message about\nlife. It sells books that answer people\u2019s query about the meaning of life.\nThere is also a shelf of books with topics like war, poverty, mental health,\nenvironment and animal, which Chuk thinks they are very related to the theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe find that the life cycle from\nbirth, aging, to sickness and death is not definite,\u201d Chuk says. He explains\nsome people died at a young age because of accidents so they do not even have a\nchance to go through the aging and sickness stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chuk describes the life journey as a\nJenga. Choices become fewer as people enter the next life stage. It is\ndifficult for them to make a decision. Eventually, the Jenga falls as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every month, the bookstore organises\na human library session or a Death Cafe. While sipping coffee, participants can\nexchange their views about life and death casually. In April, a Death Cafe\ninvites both local and international students to share the rituals and cultures\nrelated to death in their own countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varsity meets different organisations which help people reflect their lives and prepare for the arrival of deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus","category-multimedia-may-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14322,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14318\/revisions\/14322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}