A 13 year old Chinese girl tried to commit suicide in order to posthumously donate her liver to her dying father. The girl is in intensive care.
We can only take a guess at the quality of her decision to undertake such an act. My own guess would be that there is a poignant mixture of love and overwhelming grief along with an element of mixed self understanding and duress.
We certainly send our best mental thoughts and concern to her and her family.
CNN: Teen attempts suicide to give liver to dying father
The girl, Chen Jin, swallowed more than 200 sleeping pills after she discovered a medical note in her mother's purse that said her father was dying of liver cancer and had three months left to live, the news agency Xinhua said.
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