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Sunday, August 22, 2010

"I killed her"

I killed her because I do love her. These hands, these hands that give life to many, killed her because of my love to her.

Ladies and Gentlemen of this honorable court, please listen to me, listen to my story before you give my verdict. I am Dr. Reyes, a cancer specialist. I was born in a slum district of Batalon. My father oh! I don't know him for I am a child of faith. My mother brought me up in such determination and my ambition was to escape the filthy and horrible place of Batalon. I was nourished with hope that someday I might live a life different from her. My mother had a burning faith that she turned the nights into days. All her efforts were not in vain for I pushed through with flying colors. My mother who had given her whole life to me had tears in her eyes as she pinned the gold medal on my proud breast.

Later on, I was sent as a scholar of the Philippines to the United States of America. I embraced my mother… tightly as I've reached the plane….."Mother, mother,.." I whispered. You will always be my best mother in the world.

After four years, I came back with laurels. I became a cancer specialist. I gave my mother everything but I was too late. I who had used to ease the pain of many, came too late to the life of my dying mother. I gave the best treatment but the grasp of death was so tight around her. My God, what is the use of ten years of study if I couldn't even use it at my mother's pain.

Then one night, I heard a strange cry. I run to her room. "Do you love me, child?"… she asked, as I embrace her. " Yes, mother….. If only I could get all your pain and agonies…"

" Then….. if you love me, end my sufferings, kill me… Let me die."

"But, mother, I promise to give life and not to end it."

God…. She did not deserve the unhappiness. She deserves to be happy.

I run to my room and came back with a syringe.

"Mother, forgive me…. God, please understand me…."

"Mother, mother, you must not die….. Don't leave, I love you. It was only a distilled water…..Mother…… Mother……. MOTHER……"


Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, give me your verdict. Yes, it was only distilled water which ended the sufferings of my mother.

Judge me….. Punish me………

GO, punish me………….. Thy will be done!!!

25 comments:

  1. Very nice piece. Last month I used this to declaimed in declamation contest and thank you very much cause I won the FIRST PLACE. More power!!!

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  2. nice story with a dying mother

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  3. treks to dying parents!
    what a nice story

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  4. touching....sweet death for our loved ones!!!
    nice one nanc!!!

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  5. For my own opinion, only God has the right to get the life of our because he's the one who create us... We should wait for the right time.. if it is for us , its really for us . For the son who is a cancer doctor he was committed a very big sin. He should be a pro-life. & to think that the woman there was his loving mother.

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  6. or my own opinion, only God has the right to get the life of our because he's the one who create us... We should wait for the right time.. if it is for us , its really for us . For the son who is a cancer doctor he was committed a very big sin. He should be a pro-life. & to think that the woman there was his loving mother.

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  7. nice story..but we dont have the right to take others life only God..

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  8. WHO IS THE WRITER OF THIS PIECE?

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  9. IT WAS A NICE PEICE.............ITS LIKE I KILLED HIM B'COS I LOVED HIM.........SO VERY GOOD PEICE I LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!

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  11. A wonderfully constructed piece that explains clearly how and what "Euthanasia" means. Although I find the whole idea less interesting because it's too common and anyone who would read this could easily predict what comes next because the concept is too familiar, used by many, and has now become ordinary... but the structure of sentences and the usage of words captured me.... and something else captured me even more—that is, the ending. No, srsly, I was waiting for some discussions under the comment section just to see who else wondered what killed the mother, was it really the distilled water like how it was stated there? Or maybe there's something else that is beyond what's what you can only read? I mean, What if the one who administered the distilled h2o via syringe was too careless that she forgot to remove the air bubbles before injecting the syringe to her mother; introducing a certain amount of air bubbles into our body is very very dangerous and can be fatal. Maybe she was after all NOT a genuine doctor, that supports my theory on why she doesn't have the knowledge on what she's doing. She didn't mean to actually kill her mother because the style of her statement upon explaining that it's just a distilled water, is giving me the idea that she's just trying yo fake help because she doesn't want to kill her mother, but at the same time she doesn't wanna let her down. Who knows, right? Or maybe she was too dumb to think that she had administered "distilled water", when it's actually a deadly chemical? Hmm... Or maybe her mother's time has come, that it happened just immediately after injecting the water... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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  12. Her mother has cancer? Why the doctor couldn't help the mother? Maybe her mother's illness is not cancer.

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  13. Who is the author of this peice?

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