{"id":11073,"date":"2010-08-27T10:37:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T17:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11073"},"modified":"2010-08-27T10:37:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T17:37:29","slug":"now-excuse-me-i-have-to-go-satoshi-kons-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11073","title":{"rendered":""Now excuse me, I have to go." Satoshi Kon's Last Words."},"content":{"rendered":"

Anime director Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Millenium Actress, Paprika) died of cancer earlier this week, age 46. He wrote a long statement about his death, which his family posted on his blog, and which blogger Makiko Itoh has translated into English<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While my wife was running around getting things in place for my escape, I was pleading with doctors “If I can go home for even half a day, there are things I can still do!”, then waiting alone in the depressing hospital room for death. I was lonely, but this was what I was thinking.<\/p>\n

“Maybe dying won’t be so bad.”<\/p>\n

I didn’t have any reasons for it, and perhaps I needed to think like that, but I was surprisingly calm and relaxed.<\/p>\n

However, there was just one thought that was gnawing away at me.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want to die here…”<\/p>\n

As I thought that, something moved out from the calendar on the wall and started to spread around the room.<\/p>\n

“Oh dear, a line marching out from the calendar. My\u3000hallucinations aren’t at all original.”<\/p>\n

I had to smile at the fact at my professional instincts were working even at times like this, but in any case I was probably the nearest to the land of the dead that I’d ever been at that point. I really felt death very close to me. [But] with the help of many people, I miraculously escaped Musashino Red Cross and came back home, wrapped up in the land of the dead and bedsheets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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