Li Yan asks for Euthanasia law in China

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Severely disabled Li Yan is first to appeal for euthanasia law in China.

28-year-old Li Yan suffers from motor neuron disease also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS), the same illness that has thereotical physicist Stephen Hawking. Li Yan asked China's National People's Congress (NPC) to consider a draft on euthanasia.