投稿の詳細: 東京その１)　ある訃報 Tokyo 1) A news of a death.

大学の水泳部の先輩が突然
亡くなって東京でのお葬式に
昨日から出かけて行った。
お葬式といっても
最近はお通夜の方に出席する
人が多い。私もお通夜組だった。

不思議な人だった。
破天荒なと表現する人もいる。
とっても変わっていて、その意味で
とんでもないOBだった。

プールではしごかれた。言動や
行動がかなりエキセントリック
ではあったがなぜか憎めない
キャラクターで先輩OBや現役
部員の間でも、「あの人がさ～」
などとその人の話となることも
多かった。

法学部卒だが、才能が開いたのは
別分野で、40歳で医者となって
今や首都圏のど真ん中で
スタッフ50人を抱える病院の
理事長であった。

盛大なお通夜だった。
水泳部関係でも、20人ほど集まっただろうか。
一学年3人とか5人くらいしかいなかった
部だからかなり沢山集まった方だ。
首都圏はじめ、仙台、栃木、筑波、長野と
遠方よりも来ている。
「俺が死んでからこんなに集まるくらいなら
生きている時に来てくれればよかったのに」
と言ってるよ、と誰かが言った。
その通りだ。今となっては、と悔やまれる。

ＯＢ会となったお清めの食事の後、
最後のお別れにお顔を見たが、
2年ほど前に会ったその時のままだったので
思わず涙がこぼれそうになる。皆も、
神妙な面持ちになった。

享年58歳。
早すぎる死にご冥福を祈らざるを
得ない。安らかにお眠り下さい。

合掌。

A senior member of the Univesrity
swimming club passed away and I
went to Tokyo to attend his
farewell service. Recently
more people tend to attend
a wake ceremony rather than
the farewell service, so
did I.

He was very different person.
Some said he has been unprecedented.
He was very funny in a sense.

He had hard on the junior members
including me and imposed hard
trainings in the pool but he
had charming character and
many senior and juior members
had associated with him frinedlily.

He had been graduated from the
faculty of laws but he had found him
more suitable in dedicine and the
management of hospital. Afer he
had became a doctor at the age of 40,
he was successful and he became the
chairman of a hospital with around
50 staff working.

It was a big and great wake service at
a very famous temple in Tokyo. Around 20
old members of the uninversity swimming
club gathered from the distance. As we had
had only 3 to 5 members each year, 20 is
not a small number. One said that
he must have said, "All you should come while
I was alive if you came in such a number
for my service." That is right, too late.

After the light meal ceremony which turned
to be an OB gathering, we went to the coffin
and took final farewell. When I saw his face
which was almos same as one that I had seen
two year earlier, I was almost moved to tears.
Everybody seemed to have same feeling.

He was only 58 years old. We all prayed for the
repose of his soul. We all wish you will
be in a peaceful rest.
Thank you and good bye.