Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/17
By: Hsu Chih-wei and Elizabeth Hsu
Kaohsiung, Sept. 17 (CNA) He is known to his students as the “miracle professor” after
Wang Chih-yuan (王致遠, center)
wowing them by showing up in class to teach just a year after nearly dying of an unknown infection that cost him all four of his limbs.
Wang Chih-yuan (王致遠), an assistant professor in business management at National Sun Yat-sen University in this southern Taiwan city, is the person whose arduous journey and whose resolve to stay alive has earned him a 2017 Fervent Global Love of Lives Award presented by the Taipei-based Chou Ta-kuan Cultural and Educational Foundation.
On Sunday, Wang told the public at a press conference how he chose to live with a positive mind.
“It’s extremely painful when you’ve just lost four limbs,” Wang said, admitting that the pain dragged him to the dark reaches of his mind and had him contemplating suicide.
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