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Terminal-stage cancer patient stabs himself to death

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By Park Si-soo

An elderly patient suffering terminal-stage lung cancer stabbed himself to death, police said Wednesday.

It happened in an intensive care unit at a general hospital in Daegu about 4:50 p.m. Tuesday.

According to witnesses, the patient, 80, lifted a knife and stabbed himself after yelling "Stay away. Don't come to me."

When hospital workers arrived, he had no vital signs, according to police. He left nothing considered a will, they said.

"We believe he did so with his heart broken in sadness," a police officer said.

He said the patient ― who had lived without contact with family ― was recently diagnosed with end-stage lung cancer.


Park Si-soo pss@koreatimes.co.kr


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