이곳에 오시는 분들이 대부분 의사님들이시라
매일 환자분들을 돌보시느라고 분투하시고 계시겠지요.
삶과 죽음.. 우리는 죽음을 도외시 할 수가 없지요.
박완서 작가님이 떠나실 때, 그분의 뒷모습은 아름다움 자체였습니다.
<뒷보습>이란 사안으로 들여다 보다가
이형기 시인의 '낙화'를 대하게 되었습니다.
진실은 멀리 있지 않고 바로 뒤에 있다는 ...
이별도 참된 의미를 알고 행해 질 때는 아름답다고 하는 ..
그래서 훌훌히 떠나고 또 그리 보내드리는 것이 필요한 것 같습니다.
이 시에서..
죽음을 승화 시킬 수가 있다는 것으로 많은 위안을 받게 되었습니다.
여러분들과 함께 하고자 올려드립니다.

Even though I cannot comment to the poem you introduced above
specifically, I can feel what the poet tries to say.

I can imagine the theme of "Man-nam & He-er-jim" of any form in
our life is everybody's concern.

You mentioned "Deaths in Doctor's Life", but it is still difficult subject
to deal with, as far as I am concerned , even though I saw many cases
in my practice all those years as an Internist. As you might know, many
of my patients are "Hal-mu-ni or Hal-a-bu-ji" in 80s and even in 90s.

And what about those Guilty fFeelings that follow their' deaths to let me
think whether there were more I could do for them? Every death takes 
a little bit of me away, I would say.

Let me go back to my three personal experience that affected me a lot.

1. When President JFK was assassinated in 1963, I  was deeply saddened
and was awaken to realize the Human Fatality. I was 18, then.

2. When Dr. Lee Kyu-hun (68)-hyung( was suddenly killed by a car accident
and saw him lying in the coffin, I could not help but crying. It was the first
and the last time I cried over a Human Death.

3. When Dominick said "let Me Go" at the end, how much tired of living he
was all those years of suffering!, I could feel his pains seated deep in his
mind. He was the first and the last patient of mine that did not cling to life.
And he was the only patient I attended funeral in my 33 years' practice.

It might be much easier to say Hello in our life
than saying Goodbye. But it's a part of our life.

"One life to live"_many of my old patients say,
"Enjoy it"_they say firmly.   And they leave my office.

PS; This is the longest comment I ever wrote, Kee Woo-nim.
I hope i was not off the track to Sam-chun-po

방준재 박사님, 긴 긴 댓글에 감사함을 전합니다.
천만에요.. 삼천포로 빠지지 않으셨습니다.
한국의 슈바이처로 알려진 무소유의 인술을 펼치신
성산 장기려 박사님이 돌보던 환자가 생을 마감하자
박사님은 경찰서로 가서 자기가 지금 사람을 죽였으니
자수하러 왔다고 한 에피소드가 있지요.
의사님들의 고통을 제가 어떻게 이해를 하겠습니까만,
매일 환자들의 생명을 돌보는 일이 작은 일이 아니겠지요.