point of view from an executioner from mid-centry in Europe

I am an executioner in mid-century in Europe. My work is to kill criminals. It is one of the biggest entertainment for the people so we executioner do it as cruelly as we can. There are people who think it is very cruel and prefer not to watch the execution but a lot of people come and watch the execution as they don't have much entertainment in their lives normally. We do it cruelly, one reason is that it is an entertainment, another reason is to restrain people to commit crimes. However, people watched the execution as an entertainment, we executioner were discriminated badly. We were not allowed to marry a normal woman, our children had to hide their parents job or otherwise they get withdraw from school, and we were thought to be a murderer who is having fun killing criminals. It is because we keep straight face while we kill criminals in a very cruel way and have direct contact with criminals so they think we are affected and are polluted by the criminals so they do not want us near them. Though we are just diligently doing our duty. Our job goes on from generation to generation so we teach our children the job and our children would take place after we retire. As there are no executions every day, we usually have a side job and a many of executioner do a surgeon as a side job. We do various executions so we know where the vital spot is and know the contracture of human body so we do very good as a surgeon. When we retire, we do surgeon as main job, too.

Executioners are not always good at execution. There are some executioner who are bad at using knives that when they perform decapitation, they cannot cut criminal’s head by one try. The rumor spreads so I try to do it nicely. If an executioner is good, they may be called to a royal family to do execution.

However, we are just bound to do our duty. That’s all.

source
http://matome.naver.jp/m/odai/2138953079458658701
publishd 2014, June 25
viewed 2015, June 3rd