Janet Fan organized a protest against a hospice care facility adjacent to her condo, whipping people up into a dither about supposed cultural insensitivity. It worked, because we certainly wouldn’t want to appear to be intolerant.
Their petition read in part “‘Death is the Yin and ‘Live’ is the Yang. If the Yin and Yang are near to each other, ‘Death’ will bring bad luck, meaning sickness and even death. The ghosts of the dead will invade and harass the living.”
In my experience, over-the-top superstition and venal nimbyism is not an integral part of Chinese culture. It is very disappointing that the St. Johns society caved to this; it will only serve to create more alienation and xenophobia. I hope Ms. Fan is proud of herself.
Assuming that the land the hospice is to be built on is actually zoned for research facilities only, fair enough. But yeah, that lady and her cultural issue can go fuck themselves.
It’s ridiculous. Also, hospices are awesome. My mother and my mother-in-law both died in hospice, and you couldn’t ask for more compassionate care at the end of life.
Personally, I’d love to live near a nice cemetery. Wouldn’t bother me a bit.
Just because it can’t be built there doesn’t mean it won’t be built at all, does it? Or doesn’t it? If she was stopping it from being built at all then yes, she’s a total slimefucker. But if it’s still built somewhere else, then it’s less of a big deal. Paranoia over property values after the real estate bubble popped is understandable right now.
I wish I had someone like Janet Fan around in my building. Goddamn old folks home next door. They can’t fucking drive. I almost die in the local roundabout every week when one of those old fuckers just blows through the stop sign. At least the CMTS has no load on it though.