{"id":259538,"date":"2017-11-02T14:42:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=259538"},"modified":"2021-02-13T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:32:20","slug":"compassion-over-chinese-mothers-mercy-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/compassion-over-chinese-mothers-mercy-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassion over Chinese mother\u2019s \u2018mercy killing\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
A really loving mother!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The case of an elderly woman found guilty of killing her disabled son has provoked an outpouring of compassion from Chinese social media users.<\/p>\n

The 83-year-old, identified only as Ms Huang, was found guilty of the manslaughter of her disabled son, Li.<\/p>\n

She fed her 46-year-old son about 60 sleeping pills on 9 May and strangled him with a silk scarf as she used cotton pads to cover his nose.<\/p>\n

Huang was found guilty of manslaughter by the People’s Intermediate Court of Guangzhou and received a three-year suspended prison sentence.<\/p>\n

She said she took her son’s life because she feared no one would care for him after she died.<\/p>\n

Li was born prematurely with severe mental and physical disabilities that left him unable to walk or talk.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors asked Huang why she could not have arranged for Li to have been cared for by his elder brother, but she said she was not prepared to burden him.<\/p>\n

“It was my fault to give birth to him and make him suffer. I’d rather commit murder than leave him to someone else,” Huang told the court.<\/p>\n

“[F]or the past two years my own health was too poor to take care of him any more,” the 83-year-old said.<\/p>\n

“I’m getting older and weaker and might die before him,” she said. “The idea of killing him occurred to me a week before and I had been struggling.”<\/p>\n

Head judge Wan Yunfeng said: “She deserves mercy even though she did break the law.”<\/p>\n

‘Inexplicably sad’ – reaction from Chinese social media
\nThe case has gone viral on the Chinese popular social media microblogging platform Weibo.<\/p>\n

One popular comment highlighted the difficulties that having a disability can have on a person and their families<\/p>\n

Yuangungun DeXueqiu said: “In this country, a mental illness or disability can make an ordinary family’s lives disastrous. For such people, there is really not enough aid.”<\/p>\n

The case has also reopened the debate around euthanasia in China. One Sina Weibo user said: “This happened because euthanasia has not been legalised.”<\/p>\n

Some users disagreed with this statement, saying that “This has nothing to do with euthanasia, but with current social welfare issues.”<\/p>\n

According to the\u00a0China Disabled Persons’ Federation, there are 2.7m people with disabilities in the world’s most populous country.<\/p>\n

However, there are only 6,740 registered disabled care support services, which can only provide some total care for about 204,000 people with any type of disability.<\/p>\n

This means that the burden of care for disabled people in China often falls upon family members of people with disabilities. As one Weibo user put it: “The problem lies in social welfare and the [social] security system is far from perfect.”<\/p>\n

Some users expressed their sorrow for the defendant. Some saw the incident as “inexplicably sad”, while one commenter said they felt “drowned in sorrow”.<\/p>\n

There was also empathy for her plight, with one user saying: “No-one can understand this mother’s love. After all, she personally took care of him for 46 years.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-41842986<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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