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Eulogy for FatherWe argon gathered here to give Dr. Jerome, my dad, a last formal farewell. We hold open his life with the theme of Choose Life. For throughout his life, dad consistently chose life. He has the God given virtue of seeing the possibility of life. In many circumstances when many are blind, he sees possibilities for more easy life. His trance is so clear that it drives him to action. And he is a man of action. He always tells me that his actions are calculate happens. Only after his death project I come to understand what he means by calculated risk. I believe he weighs the possibilities for more abundant life against the in-person risks that his actions might incur. For him, the possibilities for life always out-weigh the risks of individual(prenominal) loss or rejection. His slew gives him the desire and courage to act. When he saw the possibility of a greater life in relationship with another, he married my mother, Theresa, in 1938. His vision was correct and resulted in a fruitful life-long relationship that brought forth 5 children. When he disc everywhereed that I suffered from asthma, he chose a better become for me by becoming a pediatrician. The result was not lonesome(prenominal) a better life for me but overly for his many patients. In 1947, he saw the possibilities for life in the West. So he came over to canvass in St. Louis. His father, my grandfather, was blind to the possibilities and refused to send him here. But his mother, my grandmother, sold some of her jewellery to pay for his stay here. In 1949, when the Communists are moving to take over the country, he saw the risks to our lives and come back to get us out. For him the risk of Communism was greater than the uncertainties of immigration. We left one week after the Communists captured Shanghai, with discontinue passports, and on the only ship to visit Shanghai that year. If dad was only one day late, our lives would have been radically different. When he saw tha t teenagers indispensable a special kind of medical care, he left his manage here in order to study at Harvards adolescent unit. He was the first doctor in St. Louis to practice adolescent medicine. He also authored a book on the subject. Later in life, with considerable personal sacrifice, he chose to fight for the life of the unborn, for medical ethics that protected the gray and infirm, for an end to capital punishment, and for other related causes.