Not your typical suffocation case
- By Liu Yan
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E-mail CRI, April 13, 2016
Yes, that could be the reason why many onlookers only kept watching, but please stick to the facts and don't exaggerate. Pictures and video footage clearly showed that some passersby tried their hardest to rescue the woman by pulling apart the rails. Unfortunately, they just didn't succeed. I mean, if you are not a professional firefighter, you naturally don't have the tools you need to pull off that sort of thing. It has nothing to do with anyone being "cold".
And of course, there had to be those conspiracy theorists. "People keep talking about the rails, but how did the lady get stuck like that? It's so unnatural. Something fishy must have been going on." I'm sorry, but such comments make me so mad. Can no one READ anymore? Or maybe the question should be: does no one BOTHER to read anymore? Reports clearly say that the lady fainted and accidentally got her neck trapped. She died of suffocation, and it was not a murder! Seriously, everyone out there is NOT to get you! And everything does NOT come down to someone plotting against you! This is real life, not 24, the TV series!
Plus, enough with the "People are hopeless! This society is hopeless! I'm so profoundly disappointed" routine! It's not hip to act all cynical and pretend like everything is bad to the core. At the very least, it's not responsible to jump to conclusions before you even get the facts straight. So how about doing your research first and then giving others a piece of your mind on the Internet?
I'm not saying all criticism is bad. I just think it's necessary to know what you are talking about. I do agree with the particular criticism that taking pictures and recording videos of that pregnant lady was tasteless. Releasing those pictures and footage online was even more tasteless. It showed an utter lack of respect for a fellow human being. The only purpose of those things should be to help the police figure out what really happened. They should not be made available for public gawking, period.
By the way, an official from Mizhi Public Security Bureau says an autopsy is required to come to a decisive conclusion. Without the autopsy, no one can say for sure if a heatstroke or hypertension led to the woman's fainting, and consequently led to her death.
Guess what? Her family refuses to give the go-ahead. I don't exactly know why, and I haven't seen any reports touch on that. My guess is, the family wants her to "rest in peace" and doesn't want her to endure more posthumous humiliation. That is the typical "Chinese way" (for lack of a better phrase) when it comes to the dead body of a family member.
Being Chinese myself, I can certainly understand that, but for the sake of finding out the truth and possibly helping to prevent similar tragedies from happening again in the future, I hope the family will eventually come around and allow the autopsy.
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