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Clean-up crew on hand to spruce up Japan's 'lonely death' apartments Reuters by Chris Meyers
In March, the body of an elderly man was found on the floor of his apartment in downtown Tokyo. He had been dead for a month.
Neighbors hadn't noticed the octogenarian's absence. His bank made the rent payments on time, his family didn't visit, and the only reason for the body's discovery was the slight smell that troubled the tenant in the flat below.
In rapidly ageing Japan, more people are dying alone and unnoticed in a country of 127 million where one in four people is over 65. Looser family bonds play a role in their isolation.
For these so-called "lonely deaths", families and landlords in Tokyo are increasingly turning to Hirotsugu Masuda and his clean-up crew to salvage apartments where the occupant's body lay undiscovered for days or weeks.
"This has started becoming a bit more common in the world and it's become more recognized that there's this sort of job," said Masuda, whose services are required 3-4 times a week in summer when bodies decompose faster.
When Masuda's team turns up at the Tokyo apartment, police have taken away the corpse but body fluids have seeped into the floor. Flies buzz around a cooker filled with rice. Old calendars and papers are strewn in rooms untouched for years.
Workers wearing protective gear spray the apartment with insect repellent, using gloved hands to pack the trash in boxes. The six-hour exercise is conducted discreetly to avoid upsetting the neighbors. The crew tells onlookers they are moving house.
When they are done, incense and flowers are placed where the body was, with the man's photo put where his head had been.
Masuda's firm works almost exclusively with "lonely deaths", charging between 81,000 yen ($676) and 341,000 yen ($2,845) depending on apartment size.
In a country where around 5 million elderly people live alone, the number of decaying bodies found in empty homes is expected to soar. Data shows victims are more likely to be male.
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What do you think about the 'lonely death'?
What do you think about the clean-up job for 'lonely death'?
Are you willing to take the clean-up job with high paid?
Is living alone a problem?
Disadvantages of elderly people living alone?
How can we build a better society for older people?
Why some people are socially excluded?
時尚老人成網紅
Fashion is an attitude sohu
You don’t have to be young to be a fashion insider. Fashion has nothing to do with age, but more about personal style. Everyone pursues beauty, including seniors. The best gift for your grandparents may be helping them express themselves.
Recently, a post 90s girl from Yibin of Sichuan province took a series of arty snaps for her grandma, which have amazed netizens. The more than 80-year-old pouting grandma in red sportswear looks cute and adorable, and feels youthful in that pose. The granddaughter Xi Yu said she took the photos because she was inspired by the fashionable photos taken by a photographer in Xiamen for his grandpa.
The photographer in Xiamen is Ding Guoliang, also called Jesse, who wants to appeal to the public to pay more attention to and accompany the elderly through taking photos. The "coolest 85-year-old grandpa" photo series shows a stylish man in his daily life, wearing sunglasses and caps, drinking coffee in Starbucks, or talking with beautiful women.
"Fashion has nothing to do with age. The elderly can still be fashionable even if he has retired from work", said Jesse. Most of the photos were taken as snap shots to show the most simple and natural postures of his grandpa. After Jesse posted these photos on social media, they have become hot online and won many "likes" from netizens.
Guo Jingjing, a senior college student from Changsha, also dressed her grandma with her fancy dresses, did make up for her and shot a cute photo album. "The first makeup, the first formal dress, these are all replications of my daily life," Guo Jingjing said, "My grandma enjoys the shooting process a lot. I feel that the seniors really like hanging out with the youngsters and feel young again."
Speaking of elderly people with great fashion sense, celebrated actors Wang Deshun and Zhang Shuangli are two such icons. The two are known for their fashion savvy even though they are getting older. In March last year, at a launch during China Fashion Week, the 79-year-old Wang Deshun walked onto the stage topless, wearing fashionable pants. His muscular body amazed audiences.
Q:
What do you think the saying “fashion has nothing to do with age”?
What are the impact of an ageing population?
How to dress nicely and get a good impression?
Do you follow fashion trends? Why or why not?
Why do people follow fashion trends?
How to keep good health?
How to become famous on the internet?
他做了全世界最悲傷的工作... tvbs
電影《王牌天神》中穿著全身白西裝的摩根費里曼飾演造物主上帝，自稱「角色扮演」最愛的人間角色「清潔工」。尚雷諾在電影《霹靂煞》是為女主角Nikita清理殺人現場後續的「清潔工」，並延伸此形象及風格成《終極追殺令》裡自稱為「清潔工cleaner」的冷酷單純殺手Leon，更與小蘿莉娜塔莉波曼發展出淡淡的情愫。
2015年日本警方在東京鄉下發現一具死亡超過一個月的85歲老人遺體，警察將遺體搬離現場後，家屬聯絡了專門處理善後的「特殊清掃業者」整理。日本老化問題相當嚴重，因為沒有共同生活的家人，許多老人常常一個人「孤獨死」在房子，因而出現「特殊清掃」這個工作，處理人人避之唯恐不及的孤獨死房間。
電影裡的清潔工似乎帶點幽默或浪漫情懷。真實的清潔工除了清潔隊員，還有「特殊清掃」工作者，亦即清理亡者遺物的工作，包含遺體形成的髒亂、污損與穢物。這個工作因為常目睹令人悲傷的死亡現場，也分擔了亡者家屬的哀慟，因此被稱為全世界最悲傷的工作。英國路透社曾拍攝「特殊清掃工作」系列，讓大家認識特別職業「特殊清掃」，揭露死亡現場的神祕面紗。
日本部落客「特掃隊長」就是特殊清掃工作者，從大學畢業就進入特殊清掃行業，至今現場經驗22年，處置遺體超過10000件。他坦言為反抗憂鬱症加上好奇罕見行業，因而成為清理師。他每天專業俐落清掃各種死亡現場，手掌感受死亡的痕跡，鼻子吸進腐敗的氣味，直接面對親屬對至親死亡的悲傷情緒、遺憾與淚水。他沒有因為這些殘酷現實而崩潰，反成為泥濘中改變人生的助力，在工作過程中找到熱情。
特掃隊長在網路發表工作心情，將工作所見所思化成文字，寫下個人經驗、生命思索與人生體悟。他提到有次清掃自己多年朋友的自殺現場，正要動手時死者爸爸不怕駭人景象，捲起袖子一起清掃，而帶著哀戚來到喪家的親友，卻是大人熱絡聊天，小孩滿場飛奔嬉鬧，完全不見葬禮沉重的氣氛。
在面對不堪卻必然的生命結局後，他逐漸了解生命無常的本質，發現他的工作不只是單純的清掃，而是消除死亡的痕跡，為生者建構重新出發的勇氣與生命的重整，將死轉化為生的奇妙旅程。他體會到生活的每次選擇，其實都影響著自己人生終點的結局。活著，就是不斷與自己的脆弱戰鬥的過程，人要努力活過，才不愧對於人生。
人似乎要站在死亡面前，才看得清生命的輕重。他在新書《那些死亡教我如何活》表示：「死亡並不讓人畏懼，正因生命有結束的一天，時間的侷限反而讓人看見值得珍惜、感激的人事物，認真思考自己想活出的模樣。」
什麼是生？什麼是死？什麼是人生最重要的事？我們可能思索一輩子也無法裡解，但若真實地站在死亡面前，或許答案就會清晰可見。別為死亡哀傷，它會告訴我們許多事，倒著計算還剩下的日子，讓活著更珍貴。(照片／網站、時報)
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