[New post] Desperately Seeking Company: Male, Age 85, Up for Adoption

Krista Stevens posted: "At the Washington Post, Emily Rauhala reports on a man left behind in a Chinese demographic that got old before it got rich. Knowing that his independence would eventually evaporate, Han Zeching, an 85-year-old desperate for human contact, put himself up " New post on Longreads Desperately Seeking Company: Male, Age 85, Up for Adoption by Krista Stevens At the Washington Post, Emily Rauhala reports on a man left behind in a Chinese demographic that got old before it got rich. Knowing that his independence would eventually evaporate, Han Zeching, an 85-year-old desperate for human contact, put himself up for adoption by taping a note to a bus shelter in his neighborhood. On a chilly day in December, the 85-year-old Chinese grandfather gathered some scraps of white paper and wrote out a pitch in blue ink: "Looking for someone to adopt me." "Lonely old man in his 80s. Strong-bodied. Can shop, cook and take care of himself. No chronic illness. I retired from a scientific research institute in Tianjin, with a monthly pension of 6,000 RMB [$950] a month," he wrote. "I won't go to a nursing home. My hope is that a kindhearted person or family will adopt me, nourish me through old age and bury my body when I'm dead." He taped a copy to a bus shelter in his busy neighborhood. Then he went home to wait. Read the story Krista Stevens | May 9, 2018 at 11:00 am | Tags: adoption, aging, China, elderly, elderly adoption, Emily Rauhala, loneliness, The Washington Post | Categories: Editor's Pick, Nonfiction, Quotes | URL: https://wp.me/p4KhvY-rPS Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Longreads. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://longreads.com/2018/05/09/desperately-seeking-company-male-age-85-up-for-adoption/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com