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Yesterday my mother visited her parents' graves in Shuzhou.In order to avoid the outbreak of Tomb-sweeping Day,she finished it one month earlier than usual.In the evening,she told me something ridiculous happened on her colleague several years ago.
Her colleague is a woman who has a hard fate.Her husband died from a traffic accident and his face and body were badly damaged for the upper part of his body was crushed by the truck.Several days later,her family gripped with the death of his poor husband.However,she found something strange when she saw the his remain which was prepared for the memorial meeting."It doesn't look like my husband.I don't know who he is."She said to the funeral home and asked them to check the body again.Two days later,the funeral home apologized to her and told her a terrible truth:"We are so sorry that our staff had taken two bodies by mistake which means your husband's body was given to another family.We didn't know why that family had not found such a big mistake.But it was too late to change for they had finished their memorial meeting last week and your husband's body was burned after the meeting..."
I didn't know how she felt after hearing this news.My mother said she was a very realistic woman.She must know that if one has die,nothing can be done to retrieve his death.If you really want to pay back his kindness,you should take action before his death,not after his death.The memorial meeting and Tomb-sweeping Day are only routines.As a result,she threatened the funeral home that if they didn't give enough money to comfort her family,she will inform the other family of the whole thing and accuse it of ignoring its important duty.Sure enough,the funeral home was afraid of her mouth and promised to give her family 30000 yuan to appease this matter(30000 is a great amount in several years ago).
My mother and other colleague always said to her:"Your husband is a really good guy.Even he was dead,he offered a chance to you to earn money!"
Her colleague is a woman who has a hard fate.Her husband died from a traffic accident and his face and body were badly damaged for the upper part of his body was crushed by the truck.Several days later,her family gripped with the death of his poor husband.However,she found something strange when she saw the his remain which was prepared for the memorial meeting."It doesn't look like my husband.I don't know who he is."She said to the funeral home and asked them to check the body again.Two days later,the funeral home apologized to her and told her a terrible truth:"We are so sorry that our staff had taken two bodies by mistake which means your husband's body was given to another family.We didn't know why that family had not found such a big mistake.But it was too late to change for they had finished their memorial meeting last week and your husband's body was burned after the meeting..."
I didn't know how she felt after hearing this news.My mother said she was a very realistic woman.She must know that if one has die,nothing can be done to retrieve his death.If you really want to pay back his kindness,you should take action before his death,not after his death.The memorial meeting and Tomb-sweeping Day are only routines.As a result,she threatened the funeral home that if they didn't give enough money to comfort her family,she will inform the other family of the whole thing and accuse it of ignoring its important duty.Sure enough,the funeral home was afraid of her mouth and promised to give her family 30000 yuan to appease this matter(30000 is a great amount in several years ago).
My mother and other colleague always said to her:"Your husband is a really good guy.Even he was dead,he offered a chance to you to earn money!"
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Post comment Comment (4 replies)
- Reply linda@crab
- how that would happen, it's unbelieveable,isn't it?
maybe our lives just really like a drama directered by fate not ourselves.
who knows...
- Reply ly.identity
- If I were the woman, I might have killed the management...
Anyway, I acknowledge what you say above: treasure the ones you love today instead of tomorrow, no regret, no sadness.
