The ideology that will transcend even death. A doctor running an aged day care since the long-term care insurance system was first implemented in Japan explains life and death based on existential philosophy-like beliefs and the hope that can be found therein. This book will help you find your true self and live free from loneliness. With real life stories composed at the day care. 〈Contents (chapters)〉 Introduction About me Chapter 1 Flow of Thought Chapter 2 The Nice Day Journey Establishment of the long-term care insurance system Historical changes in the plight of those requiring care The beginning of Nice Day The first attendees Issues between staff From individual therapy to group therapy Signs of change at Nice Day with reverse thinking Analysis of the reverse thinking effect Therapeutic community The criteria for TC The TC approach A comparison between Nice Day and TC The TC-like community makes it Japan’s “mahoroba” Another look at Nice Day Memorial services and Heidegger’s philosophy Differences between TC and fundamental co-existence (community of salvation) Realization that life is finite Relationships at Nice Day The Nice Day scene Life stories Chapter 3 Life Stories at Nice Day Akio Akamatsu Tatsuko Shinoda Tomiko Hasegawa Yukihiro Hamada Chiharu Hayakawa Masayuki Higuchi Ms. S. H. Hajime Fujita Ms. T. M. Mr. Y. W. Chimao Motojima Life story effect survey results March 2021 Some remarks about the survey Conclusion Reverse thinking and nursing care with love Fundamental issues of scientific humanity Conditions for keeping older people at home Conditions for the emergence of a community of salvation Getting closer to the ideal community Step one: I recommend nursing care with love by reverse thinking Step two: “Demonstration” of the respect for the aged concept Afterword 〈Author’s bio〉 Yoshihiro Ito Dr. Ito was born in Kyoto City. In 1961, he entered the faculty of engineering at Kyoto University before transferring to the university’s medical faculty in 1963 and graduating in 1967. That same year he enrolled in a doctoral course in physiology at Kyoto University. In 1971, he withdrew from the course and was appointed director of radiology at a general hospital in Kyoto City, a position he retired from ten years later. In 1981, he opened Ito Clinic then an adjoining large-scale day care for 60 attendees in 2001. Find Dr. Ito on Facebook. He is also the author of “Jiritsu Kunrenho no Igaku” [The Medicine of Autogenic Training] (published by Chuko Shinsho).