Please Help for Keiko & the Taylors
My mother, Keiko Taylor, passed away early in the morning of July 20th 2018. She had been battling stage 4 cancer in her breast, lungs, liver, spine and lymph nodes for 2 years. She also took care of my father since 2003 after he become brain damaged from a car accident, raised my brother and me, and worked very hard to support us. Our family has not lived the most conventional life and my mother really took on all of the responsibilities and still always tried her best to help as many people as possible around her. She was such a generous and strong person and always put others before herself.
I loved my mother so dearly for being who she was. I have so much pride in how she cared for so many people despite her own struggling circumstances. So I know many are grieving with our family. However I do feel we also need to stay encouraged to live our lives and move forward. And with this my brother and I, still at the age of 26 and 23, are trying very hard to tackle this difficult situation under the limited time that we have to do so.
This is where I decided to make a gofundme page. We are still trying very hard to figure out the financial situation and what to do with everything we have here and where my father will go from here. However, we are finding that we have quite a bit of debt that we need to deal with under both parents' names. Although my mother had really lessened the debts in general over the years, we seem to still be left with more than my brother and my college loans put together. This is not easy as our father cannot help us in this situation with his disability and neither of us are financially stable. This also may make things difficult for my father to leave the country. So overall we are extremely overwhelmed with the situation, and with grieving, and are trying very hard to get through so that at least our father can live his life from here onwards.
So if people can help us, even if it is a small amount, we would highly appreciate it. Whether it is with the intention to help us with the debts, or for my mother's funeral costs, or if it is a thank you to my mother, we will be very grateful.
Thank you for reading this and I am sorry that it is not well written as I am struggling to focus at this point. This past week has been hectic and difficult for us, but we are trying to push through this situation.
From the Taylors (David, Alexander & Alicia)
私の母、テイラー佳子（５９歳）は7月２０日に亡くなりました。身体中に転移したステージ４の癌と２年間も戦っていました。それだけではなく、2003年以降は交通事故にあった,脳の障害を持つ父の世話と私と兄を育ててくれました。とても強い母で、全部一人で抱えて頑張ってきた人です。母はいつも自分より他人を大事にしていました。素晴らしい母でした。
私（２３歳）と兄（２６歳）は今スイスに来て色々頑張ってどうにかしようとしています。しかしずっと苦労してきた母でしたので、兄と私は今母と父の借金やらいろんな手続きと向き合ってます。父は一人で生活すらできないため、これからのこともかなり大変になります。私達兄弟もまだ安定した収入もあまりなく、（私は大学卒業以来親の世話や手伝いをするためスイスと日本行ったり来たりしていました）かなり経済的に厳しい状況です。
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よろしくお願いいたします。
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