‘Imprisoned with her’: Plight of desperate Chinese man who cares full-time for suicidal wife with incurable disease prompts online euthanasia debate

52-year-old woman who can only move her eyes due to a rare neurological disorder is entirely dependent on her husband. Her situation became so desperate that she even offered to pay a friend to ‘help’ end her life. — SCMP

The case of a terminally-ill woman in China who is so desperate to die that she has offered others money to end her life has sparked sympathy and an emotional discussion about euthanasia on mainland social media.

Li Xiaozhong, 52, from Hunan province in central China, was diagnosed with the rare neurological disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, in January 2019, according to online news portal ThePaper.cn.