Remember Me Before The Memory Of

"The real death is that no one in the world remembers you. Remember me before the memory of love disappears."

For more than four years, the Chinese families of 154 missing passengers have shed their last drop of tear.

The Chinese saying goes, "see alive people or see their corpses."

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

In July, the Malaysian government released a "security report" on the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines 370 to the world. The report has 822 pages which seems very detail but all the words just showing "No Answer" being interpreted.

Four months later, Malaysia Airlines and families of missing passengers have been met for the 42nd time in Beijing. At the meeting, Malaysia Airlines representatives announced a news that was unacceptable to the families, "Malaysia Airlines 370 investigation team will be disbanded on Nov 30, 2018. The rest of the investigation will be handed over to Malaysian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau."

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

The break-up of the investigation team was a "death sentence" for the families. Some family members said they had no good expectations for the meeting, but that was the worst result they could have predicted.

What suffering to them is not the fact that the plane crashed, nor the continued question why more than four years have passed without any progress, but is no one could helpe them to find their missing family any more.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

On March 8，2014, the Malaysia Airlines 370 disappeared, leaving 154 Chinese passengers unaccounted for, leaving incidents that will never find the truth. Many have stopped paying attention to the plane, but for the families of the missing passengers, they are still searching and waiting for a result.

On Nov 14, 2018, Beijing hosted the Malaysia Airlines 370 Family Meeting. In the face of the relatives, Malaysia Airlines representative gave a statement: "Regret." Just one word, the only explanation that Malaysia Airlines gives to the family members. When Malaysia Airlines representative said "regret", the family member expressed it is unacceptable.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

"You have promised to give us an explanation, but now you explain by using "regret" ?

" Could you explain by saying regret if you were unable to keep a promise?"

Said the family members.

Moreover, the representative of Malaysia Airlines announced that the investigation team would be disbanded on 30 November. When Malaysia Airlines representatives announced the news to the families, many of the family members lost control.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

This is the 42nd meeting.

Many family members attend the meaningless meetings on numerous occasions, without reimbursement of fare, recommendation and meals.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

But the families never give up, they try to remain hope, wish to know the truth of the accident, the whereabouts of the plane, and whether their missing families were still alive. However, Malaysia Airlines brings to the family: again and again angry, again and again disappointment...

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

THE LAST HOPE OF BEING DEPRIVED

At the meeting, when reading Malaysia Airlines 370 Survey Book, one family member lost control and threw the book on the ground and saying "It's all fake!"

The books contain a variety of findings, speculations, and many stories that are made up, but they do not tell truth what the families want, nor give a reasonable explanation.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

Even if they don't give the answer,  the families still attend the meetings again and again in order to get a little bit of new information.

Behind the countless disappointment is the only little hope they can get hold of. The investigation team will be disbanded means the last shred of hope will be lost to the families.

Over the past four years, there have been countless media reports about 370, keywords such as "suspected to find", "discovery debris", "basic confirmation", "almost certain", "truth of Malaysia Airlines"... Appearing in news reports and attract people's attention, at the same time, also bring people to be disappointed again and again.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

In July 2018, the Malaysian government released a security report on the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines 370 to the world. The 822-pages report is still "unsolvable", finally did not explain why four years have passed and no crashed plane was founded.

For the past four years, the families of the missing passengers have suffered too much, every time the latest news hit their hearts, and everytime heartbreaking…

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

THE FAINT POSSIBILITY IS ALL THE HOPE OF LIVING

In the four years, the families who have been waiting for their missing one to come back.

"If the plane was not found, why did they say it was definitely crashed?"

"If our sons remains had not been found, why say they were no longer exsit in the world?"

Four years have gone by, we all feel sorry and hope the families could move on with their life. But the families of missing passengers leave the biggest questions to Malaysia Airlines.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

There are still some "unrepentant" family members who believe that their missing families are still alive.

"After four years without a clue of death, shouldn't I be more optimistic?"

"Am I not supposed to be pleased that my son is not dead?"

Said a 66-year-old man, Mr. Wen. His son was on the plane, and he still believes his son is alive.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

Over the past four years, he has collected everything he can from video including meetings and boardings, just for finding  evidence that his son is still alive.

Even though the old man seemed so strong, he experienced anger and tears of being told about the plane crash. Now he and his wife live as usual, pretending their son does not back home because of business trip.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

He and his wife have been searching for the Malaysia Airlines 370 news all the time and refused to receive 2.52 million RMB compensation, and with a conviction of their son is still alive. Many families refuse to believe that their loved ones were dead, and built their entire lives around this faint possibility.

We've seen Malaysia Airlines 370 in countless news reports, it may be a mystery to the onlookers, but for the families of the missing passengers, it is the great grief and the boundless longing for the loss of the family.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

Once upon a time, The Figure magazine interviewed a family member of the Chinese missing passenger on Malaysia Airlines. One sentence was particularly impressed me: "The days of waiting have no end, and sometimes it is a betrayal to be happy."

More than four years later, some families have not given up hope, although it is clear that the chance of survival is zero, these families are still holding out for the sake of knowing what their loved ones were going through at the last minute of their lives.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

The Malaysia Airlines 370 has become the first "no answer" accident in the world, a mystery accident, and the suffering will never be erased by the families of the missing passengers.

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

As movie COCO said, "The opposite of love is not no love, but forgetfulness. I won't forget you, because I always love you. The real death is that no one in the world remembers you. Remember me before the memory of love disappears."

Remember Me Before The Memory Of Love Disappear

From wechat official account "collegedaily"北美留学生日报 Translated by Samantha Li