NO, I AM DESTINED TO DIE
This in sequence to Dr Asoka Thenuwara’s appealing letter which is in yesterday’s Daily News (May 22) under the caption “No I cannot see!”. I am equally moved and motivated to pen this down with my experience in meeting more than 50 cancer-stricken infants and kids.
My father (69) my beloved precious wife (43) and my brother (54) and another three first cousins of mine succumbed to their cancers. I had the occasion to go to the cancer hospital more than 50 times with my family members and waited in the queue for radiotherapy treatment. There was another queue with mothers carrying infants of a few months and kids up to 5 or 6 years. Kids who recognized me as a frequent visitor waved at me each time they saw me in profound happiness not knowing that the ‘death tag’ is hung around their neck, destined to die in a year two, with no exception but according to their ‘karma’ of previous birth or as per the ‘plan’ by an invisible authority without the consent of the child or the mother.
To quote Dr. Thenuwara’s letter “The ten million dollar question is why these particular children were singled out to live their whole life in a world of darkness” Let me make a small addition as asking “Why…….singled out to die definitely in two or three years for no fault of theirs”. “If you have tears, prepare to shed them now!” - along with me.
Let all of us who can see and are free of this dreadful disease pause for a moment and pray or wish them healing the natural way or by some supernatural help.
Truly speaking, each and every citizen of Sri Lanka must visit cancer patients including small kids at least once in a lifetime to have a balanced and realistic understanding - what is ‘life'.
I plead with the prayer healers or individual benefactors curing patients in public parks to go there and heal at least one child in-patient, to start with. This is not a challenge but only a peaceful appeal absolutely in good faith and in sympathy with those innocent kids sentenced to death without committing any crime. I am with them with my whole heart full of love for them.
Although there is a guarantee widely published that if you ask you will receive it seems to be inapplicable in the context of these innocent little angels with cancer because so far none of them has been healed and over a million may have passed away in the history of cancer in this beautiful island.
Joe Perera
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