Congratulations to all the winners. We hope that this essay contest will encourage the public to discuss life and death issues, how to maintain dignity at the end of life, to emphasize and plan for early care, to explore their own attitudes toward life, and to prepare for the ways to say goodbye to their loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The list of winning entries is as follows. Click the essay titles in the table below to read the corresponding essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC) held its first \u201cSaying Goodbye with Love\u201d Essay Contest to honor the National Healthcare Decisions Day (April 16) and to increase community awareness of the importance of advance care planning and to provide meaningful ways to say goodbye with love to their family and loved ones with no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recaps","tag-contests"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"trp-custom-language-flag":false,"woocommerce_thumbnail":false,"woocommerce_single":false,"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"CACCC Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/author\/caccc\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC) held its first \u201cSaying Goodbye with Love\u201d Essay Contest to honor the National Healthcare Decisions Day (April 16) and to increase community awareness of the importance of advance care planning and to provide meaningful ways to say goodbye with love to their family and loved ones with no…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"essay](\"https:\/\/caccc-usa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/stacks-image-1c06b44.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPrize<\/th> Name<\/th> City,State<\/th> Essay Title<\/th> Award<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> First Prize<\/td> Dawn M. Gross, MD., Ph.D.<\/td> San Francisco, CA<\/td> As You Wish<\/a><\/td> $300<\/td><\/tr> First Runner Up<\/td> Masako Koko Huang<\/td> San Gabriel, CA<\/td> Love, Honor and Tough Goodbyes<\/a><\/td> $200<\/td><\/tr> Second Runner Up<\/td> Felicia Tan<\/td> Alhambra, CA<\/td> If We Knew What We Know Now<\/a><\/td> $100<\/td><\/tr> Second Runner Up<\/td> Jeanne Wun<\/td> San Jose, CA<\/td> Do You Know How Much I Love You?<\/a><\/td> $100<\/td><\/tr> Honorable Mention<\/td> Michael Bond<\/td> Burbank, CA<\/td> Please Let Me Go<\/a><\/td> $50<\/td><\/tr> Honorable Mention<\/td> Brenda Chen, \u9673\u611b\u83ef<\/td> Arcadia, CA<\/td> \u6de1\u6c34\u9918\u6689\u5728\u6211\u5fc3<\/a><\/td> $50<\/td><\/tr> Honorable Mention<\/td> Lusha Lee, \u674e\u975c\u8abc<\/td> Walnut, CA<\/td> \u653e\u624b\uff0c\u966a\u5abd\u5abd\u8d70\u6700\u5f8c\u4e00\u7a0b<\/a><\/td> $50<\/td><\/tr> Honorable Mention<\/td> Gloria Hsu<\/td> Houston, TX<\/td> \u611b\u7684\u9053\u5225<\/a><\/td> $50<\/td><\/tr> Honorable Mention<\/td> Nancy Cullifer<\/td> Folsom, CA<\/td> I First Met Them<\/a><\/td> $50<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"