CHENG LEUNG MEI-HAI, 75 MRS CHENG was just seconds from killing herself in the wake of a road accident that left her husband seriously brain damaged, but she pulled back from the brink.
Now a grandmother, she believes euthanasia should never be legalised for fear of the wrong decision being made on impulse.
Her husband suffered serious brain damage in a car accident in 1976 and can now only carry out the most basic conversations.
Mrs Cheng, 75, also lost her eldest son to kidney disease three years after the accident.
Emotionally scarred by the double blow, she found herself perched on the sea front after her son died, contemplating throwing herself into the water.
'At that moment, I thought if a doctor could give me a lethal injection, I wouldn't have to jump into the sea. But of course, no doctor would do it since it's illegal,' she said.
'But then I also thought to myself that my husband's situation wouldn't be reversed even if I sacrificed my life. Who would be left to take care of him? She has never thought of killing herself since.
