説明
Facing directly death, the author uses authentic and even cruel writing to record the vivid mental course since the author was diagnosed with advanced esophagus He refuses the consolation of religion, but he has to ponder over the coming death while positively and doggedly accepting various treatments. He transforms many personal thinking in this ""dying"" year into philosophical insight, telling how one person refuses to shrink before the unknown and uses insightful vision to review human dilemma and penetrate it with sharp wisdom.