As COVID-19 spreads across the globe and the number of deaths continues to be updated, the people we’ve lost and the heartbreaking experience they had have been replaced by the collective mourning.

When we look back at the patients’ help-seeking posts at that time, those who waited to die because of unconfirmed testing; those whose death certificates were being tampered; those who committed suicide out of despair; those non-COVID patients whose medical treatment were squeezed… None of them were included in the death toll, and are likely to be forgotten over time. They didn’t have fair medical treatment during their lifetime, and they were not mentioned after their death. At the same time, many frontline workers have lost their lives due to infection or overwork.

When communicating with one of the families, we were asked: “After this pandemic, who can remember the pain of someone like my mother who had nowhere to seek medical treatment, being refused by the hospital, and died at home?"

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why we build this online platform, trying to document as many people who have left us because of the pandemic as possible. The website also includes the help-seeking information they posted before they passed away, which is the evidence they left to this era. Hope it could provide a space for family members to release their grief and for the public to mourn. Behind every number is a life.

随着这场瘟疫蔓延全球及死亡数字的不断更新，那些离我们而去的生命及其生前的惨痛经历，已被“抗疫”的胜利和集体哀恸所替代。

但当我们回看当时病患的求助信息，那些未确诊却在等待中去世的人，死亡证明被篡改的人，在绝望中自杀的人，被挤压了就医空间的非肺炎患者……不仅均不在统计之内，还很可能将随着时间被遗忘。Ta们生前得不到公平的就医环境，去世以后亦不被人提及。与此同时，许多被称为“逆行者”的一线医护人员和基层工作者，也在病毒失控爆发成灾难的现场因感染或劳累过度等原因丧失了生命。

在与家属沟通时，曾被问到：“谁还能记得像我母亲这在这次疫情中求医无门，拖到医院不收治的最后十多天在家痛苦，痛心死亡的人呢？”

或许，这就是我们搭建了这个线上平台的原因之一，尝试尽可能地记录具体的因疫情而离开的人。同时，也收录了逝者生前的求助经历，这是Ta们在弥留之际留给这个时代的证据。希望能够为家属提供一种途径和空间去寄托哀思，公众可以在这里用真话悼念。我们希望用这样的方式记住Ta们，重拾逝者的尊严，而不止是冰冷的数字。