Chinese woman sends husband to the morgue after thinking he died in his sleep … and no one checks
Stomach cancer patient had been released from hospital to spend his final days at home after doctors said they could do no more for him
A Chinese man suffering from late-stage cancer spent his final hours in a funeral home morgue after his wife thought he had died and no one bothered to check.
The man, surnamed Huang, from the city of Shiyan in central China’s Hubei province, had recently been released from hospital so that he could die at home, after doctors said they could do no more for him, Shiyan Evening News reported on Tuesday.
His family had spent much of their life savings paying for medical treatment after he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in November.
On Monday morning, Huang’s wife went to wake her husband but found him motionless in bed. As he did not appear to be breathing, she assumed he had died in his sleep and called a funeral service to take his body away, the report said.
“My husband didn’t make it through the night,” the report quoted her as telling the undertaker.
