"Nowadays more people are willing to discuss death, make their wills and plan their funerals ahead," said Yang Kuo-chu, a professor at the Department of Life-and-Death Studies at Nanhua University.

“如今更多人愿意讨论死亡，他们会在此之前实现自己的愿望，并筹划自己的葬礼”，南华大学生命和死亡研究系的杨国珠教授表示。

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When he assumed power upon the death of President Chiang Ching-kuo, he immediately turned to Chiang's former personal secretary, James Soong Chu-yu, to seek an alliance to purge the party of the old-guard mainland faction.

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