Mingming, a 16-year-old student in Guangyuan, Sichuan, [...] was fond of League of Legends, and after school let out for the Qingming vacation on April 4, Mingming headed straight to a local internet cafe to log in.
That evening [...] his frustrated mother headed to confront him, going from internet cafe to internet cafe until she finally found him, playing League. According to Chinese news reports, their argument got heated, and she yelled “You go online and I can’t control you, so I’ll just go die!”
True to her word, Mingming’s mother dragged her son out of the internet cafe and to the bank of the Jialing river. She called her husband Sun Guangming (pictured above) to announce her plan to kill herself, and he rushed out to find her. But she was already in the river
Don't you think it's weird how the Chinese are not afraid of death? Suicide is the most common killer among Chinese teens. I don't understand the cause of this culture
