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.