Chinese student, 19, with hepatitis B kills herself after being shunned by classmates
Wu Xinyi, 19, who was ordered by Tianjin Normal University to live on her own, left behind a suicide note saying 'My life is just way too long for me to see an ending'.
A teenager committed suicide after she was shunned by other students and ordered by her university to live by herself after she contracted hepatitis B, The Beijing News reports.
Wu Xinyi, 19, who was in her first year at Tianjin Normal University, was found dead in her smoke-filled room on April 10 – one month after the university ordered her to either take a six-month break from her studies or live in a single room at the dormitory.
The elementary education student, from Fujian province, left a suicide note, which read: “[Novelist] Shi Tiesheng once said that there is no need for us to rush to die, but my life is just way too long for me to see an ending.
“At this moment, I’m more eager to jump away from this corrupted world.”
She previously told her mother that when her roommates discovered she was suffering from the viral infection – transmitted through contact with the blood or body fluids of an infected person – they refused even to touch her clothes hangar, the newspaper reported.
They would also quickly remove their personal belongs whenever Wu placed her mobile phone nearby.