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China Daily via Reuters
A 22-year-old woman in a wedding gown is grabbed by Guo Zhongfan, a local community officer, as she attempts to kill herself by jumping out of a seven-story residential building in Changchun, Jilin province, China on May 17. According to local media, the woman tried to commit suicide after her boyfriend of four years broke up with her, just as they were making plans to get married. The woman did not sustain any injuries during the incident.
Dressed in her wedding gown, a college student identified only as Miss Li climbed out on the window ledge of the building in Changchun city in northeast China.
According to local TV, the 22-year-old sobbed and swung her legs out the window for about an hour before police officers arrived.
Li said she could not live with the fact her fiancé had left her and married another woman just days before their wedding, local TV said.
China Daily via Reuters
The woman sits on a windowsill before attempting to jump.
Reuters reported that the woman lived on the fourth floor of the building but made her way to another apartment upstairs.
As dozens of people looked on, authorities arrived at the seventh-floor dwelling determined to prevent Li from taking her own life.
Television footage showed a local official named Guo Zhongfan holding Li by her neck and arms as she dangled above the street.
China Daily via Reuters
From left: Guo Zhongfan grabs hold of the woman; other people assist from below; the woman is pulled inside the building.
Changchun Television said she pushed herself off the ledge before she was grabbed by Guo. A man in the apartment below assisted in the rescue by reaching out the window and pushing Li’s feet up.
The crowd gathered below applauded Guo after the woman was pulled back inside.
"I did what anyone would have done," Guo told reporters.
Li was later taken to hospital.
A community officer pulled a 22-year-old woman to safety after she threatened to jump out of a building in China because her boyfriend married another woman. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.
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She should be happy that he left her on time. The marriage would have been a mistake, considering what he is capable of. So, probably the real looser in this situation is the girl that married him. Good riddence, lady! Move on. Life will bring you a man that desrves you.
The President needs to call China immediately and inform them that we will take their pretty girls who have been jilted.
Falstaffsmind
The President needs to call China immediately and inform them that we will take their pretty girls who have been jilted.
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what about the homely ones ?
I am sure there are homely Chinese women, but they seem rare.
Another case of female hypergamy.
China has way more men than women, yet this woman wants a dude that all other women want. Typical. What about the thousands of lonely men who committed suicide this year due to not being able to find a mate? Why is that not reported? I'm sure there are pictures of that too!
Women, stop only going for looks, money and status, then this stuff wouldn't happen. Give a "regular" guy a chance for once!
BigPig, you are another lame dweeb.
She looks hot.
Someone needs to do something about all those cracks in the tilework on the building.
Apparently it not just us that gets the substandard Chinese building materials.
See marriage is for the birds.. lol j/k'ing
Im glad shes ok. Hopefully she gets the help she needs.
she's beautiful
ClarkKent2011
No one is worth taking your own life. She should be thankful it happened before the marriage.
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Never say never. If you sacrifice your life for a family member, you're taking your own life.
I know that she was hurt and embarassed at being left for another so close to her wedding. I'd send the bill for all of the wedding expenses to date to that man and his new "love" along with a warrant in debt, or whatever they call it in China, to collect the money. I hope she'll be fine. Although on the outside she is beautiful and looks as though she could have any man she wanted, she apparently loved one man and he hurt her terribly.
This is a heart-breaking story. This "child" apparently did not have a very loving support system if she found herself feeling this way. Women are not "favored" children in China. Parents who chose to have and keep a "female child" made great sacrifice in a country that allows one birth per family. Their sacrifice may have put undo pressure on this young woman to marry well and bring her family honor. I promise there's more to this story than we're seeing in the pictures. As for those who have commented about building construction...check the status of your hearts. You missed the story here and your shallowness and need for shoring up is as much in need as the buildings are!
I'm sitting at my desk, tears coming down - I just found this heartbreaking. I guess the photos helped some. I hope she can move ahead and realize that no one is worth killing yourself over and there are more fish in the sea.
Sifu - she's upset because she has compassion for the sadness and pain of another human being. Something that seems to most definitely be lacking in your comments.
People commit suicide at an alarming rate in this country, and in other countries. They are not all "Crazy" people, but ill or seriously depressed. Depression is a biological illness...not a mental one. Suicide is a last resort for someone who cannot see through the pain, and feels it may never end. It's sad, no matter how you look at it. No jokes should be able to be found in this story...
I have been to China several times, and the culture there is completely different than here. The people are lovely wonderful people who have a government that many don't agree with. The pressure to marry is high. However, I'm not sure this suicide attempt is so much of a cultural distinction, but rather a human one that many can relate to. Depression is a universal epidemic. She would not be the first to be considered a healthy person who one day cannot take the pressures of the dissapointments in their life and decides to take their own life. It's a very sad thing.
Sadly, I hope none of your loved ones are dealing with depression or hard times, because they certainly wouldn't have a shoulder to cry on in you, would they?
This woman, Chinese or otherwise, was in pain. We should all be thankful the woman is ok, and have some compassion for her plight. Calling her names, or otherwise mocking her, is a sad statement to your humanity.
Wow...I SO hope you don't have children...ever. And my guess is you don't have very many friends. It's EVERYONE'S responsibility to have compassion for our fellow human. Everyone's. No exceptions. Why? Because we are a civilized society. period.
The saddest part is...someday when you need a hand..it's going to be someone like me who gives it to you..even if you are a jerk. In the meantime, I have a life filled with love, family, good friends and people who would do anything for me because I would do anything for them. My guess is that you do not have those types of people in your life....and that is also very, very sad. You are hardened...my sincere hope is that some day your heart softens a bit so that you can see that everything is not about you....
You have kids?Oh My God, and Holy Crap. Those poor kids.
Really?How they can surpass my level of education, when you haven't even graduated preschool yet?the only leg up is the leg with the foot that is sticking in your mouth.
I really feel for those kids.
oh you mean they don't post what they're really feeling. they just go along with the status quo.Meaning, they can't be their real selves, they just have to go along with the chip off the old block.
There's enough self centered egotistical brainless rejects in this world.I just hope this isn't going to be another bunch. I mean holy crap look what those poor things have for a role model.
All the deletes on here prove exactly that.Go away Sifu. there's enough ugliness in the world.
AWWWWWWWWWWW What's the Matter?SOUR GRAPES Sifu!
A few years ago here in the USs, a young mother-to-be who had recently been dumped by her "fiance" won a mega-LOTTO. I wish the same for this young lady.
Praying for Miss Li and for a speedy recovery. It'll be all right!
Such a shame, she is a beautiful girl and hopefully she can get her life back together.
She looks beautiful and could have somebody better than what she chose!
It's funny how everyone trashes on the guy since he's the one that dumped her.
He broke up with her 'before' the wedding. Wouldn't that be the intelligent thing to do rather then marry her and then divorce 2-3 years down the line because you're extremely unhappy? It's unfortunate that she took it so hard. However, I'm willing to be the guy did the best thing for both of them with his decision to leave.
Honey, I know it doesn't look like it right now but it's a good thing this happened before the marriage.
I'll pray God sends you the right man.
Poor girl, but I have to say I love her dress, it certainly looks batter then the dress on Kate Middleton. Hope she will be Ok.
I totally agree with Kelruze, there are a lot of facts which are unknown--did she have sex, is she pregnant, did she work hard to provide funds for their home and household items for which she is now not able to get back... It is important to remember that what we take for granted here in the US is now the way it is in other countries. Our values are different as well as our laws. Perhaps the law is completely on his side if money was involved--we don't know. It wasn't all that long ago that here in the good old USA it was considered a disgrace if a woman was divorced even if she left him because he was violent. The woman was considered "used" goods and since she had already had sex she was a "loose" woman. And sex before marriage--even if your future husband was the one you had sex with it was not uncommon for hiim to change his mind and not go through with the marriage. I feel China, while a growing and modernizing country is culturally where the US was about 40 to 50 years ago. Is the route our society took the right one--I'm not going to compare. The US society is a result of our history over the last 50 years which is not necessarily the path that China will take.
As for the young lady, I feel for her and hope that she does, indeed, see a light at the end of the tunnel. And, who knows, maybe her actions will save another young lady. I can only hope that her actions do not teach suicide as being a way out.
What a heart breaking situation. She must really love the guy. I've gone through this too and it's tough but there is a whole life ahead of Li and I hope she begins to understand that. Please don't let one person ruin your life.
I wish my wife loved me that much. If I walked out the door . . . I wonder if she would even know that I was gone.
I've been reading the comments and thinking, 'boy, there are some major jerks out there'. Then I re-read the comments and realized that there is really only ONE jerk commenting on this story...so then I felt better. The world has not lost it's compassion and humanity. Only this one person did. There are other comments that are heartless, but only one person has been cruel.
It's sad. People kill themselves all of the time in the US and in every country on the globe. It's not a joke...and it doesn't mean she is 'crazy'. It means she is depressed...and depression kills just as cancer does. It's a biological disease just like heart disease is. It's treatable, but often not easily.
This woman needs help, for certain. And I don't know the whole story for why her fiance left her - but it's a moot point. Because this woman still needs help regardless. And even if he left her 2 minutes before the wedding - it's still not 'his fault' that she tried to kill herself. There are people who live under the bridge who don't jump off of it....this isn't about a rational response to a problem. This is an irrational response, thought to be the right response because the cloud of depression does not allow one to think and reason clearly.
You can say you'd never do it, and no one you know would ever do it...but you are probably wrong. Many healthy people would be capable if they were in the midst of a clinical depression. And that's the point. You can't judge if you've never been there. I haven't myself, but I know several who have...and it's tragic and heartbreaking..and no joking matter.
I pray for this woman and hope that she gets the help she needs to treat her depression and I further hope that in 10 years, she will look back on her early 20's as most of us do...and say 'what the heck was I thinking'. Being young is hard...being left right before a wedding is hard...being young, left right before a wedding and depressed can be too much to bear....
Ok...see I was going to try to reason with you until I read these comments. No rational human could have these thoughts, so trying to reason with you is ridiculous and time wasting. If you truly feel this way, and are not just a message board troll trying to rile people up...then I actually feel very, very sorry for you. You are a very poor example of the human race...
ditto
They could of used you back in 1940. The Germans that is, as they rounded up the Jews. Hell you would of made an excellent candidate as a guard or an officer in one their concentration camps.Holy Crap you would of been a perfect candidate.
You're Pathetic.
Gloria, there's no sense in even responding to Sifu. It's patently obvious that he's a sociopath that doesn't care about anyone but himself. I noticed from earlier responses to his deleted comments that he has children - I feel so sorry for them. I'm sure that any time one of them does something that he doesn't agree with, they're severely punished. They'll grow up to be people with no self-esteem and no ability to make decisions for themselves.
Wonder what she would tried had this been a miscarriage? Holy crap!
Sifu - it's people like you that have no empathy for another's pain. No one is 'crying' over her dilemma, we are all trying to understand why someone could be so hopeless to take these kinds of actions. All you want to do is tell everyone to 'grow a pair' and just look the other way. How callous and inhuman. Human beings suffer all over the world - this is just a case that the media caught on film. Because you choose to live in your 'bubble' and not let anything outside of your selfish realm affect you, I truly feel sorry for you. Not to put words in your mouth, but basically you're saying, "Hey, if it doesn't affect ME (because I'm so narcissistic and callous) then I'm not going to give a damn." What a tragic place the world would be if there were more selfish and egocentric people like you in it.
ah Lori just dismiss Sifu.Trolls thrive on misery and don't know how to grow a pair.
Others Sifu? no at you for expressing cold hearted opinions. You think you're above it all. Well guess what?YOU'RE NOT!You're just another person like everyone else walking around. You're no exception to the rule.
Your opinions are the perfect example of all the ugliness there is in this world, of one human beings attitude towards another.It's called Cruelty, look the dam word up.You might get educated.
YOU SIR TAKE THE GRAND PRIZE being PATHETIC!
Care to go another round?I'm just getting started.
You sir are the puppet. your a slave to own ignorance. Dance for me Sifu. How high can you kick?Yourself in the ass that is.
Gloria - not everyone is as gullable as you are dear. Not everyone falls for the crap this lady put on for attention. I bet you give money to every person standing on the street with a sign. Your attacks on Sifu are very distasteful. He, just as well as you, have every right to voice his opinion on the article - whether you like it or not - no one cares!! Just as I voiced my opinion - I don't care if anyone likes it - it is my opinion and I have a right to it.
If you disagree with it - then state so professionally and move on. But from what I am reading of your responses - some of them are very TWISTED! You are a piece of work!
I'm gullable?Bwahahahahaha!That's the funniest one yet.
His opinion and yours right along with it, are at the bottom of the barrel.In fact it scratches the bottom of the barrel.
Here's a newsflash for you. Whether this attempted suicide was fake, which i highly doubt,you people saying low below the Totem things about the subject, doesn't even classify as an opinion. It classifies as nothing more than Cowardly Ignorance about a person, at the lowest level of their life.You and the likes of you rub salt in their wounds with your so called worthless opinions.
Yes I am a piece of work, a piece of work for all the right reasons. We understand each other?Perhaps you'd like to go another round?However, frankly I'm sick of you.
Take a picture and see what you want to see in it. may be totally it's not about someone being a jerk(whatta simple) or some one not really worth it or even step further and dare to divulge your hate towards man and say they don worth and they won't blah bluh shrroolllloomp dumb dumb?! It's indicates and approves that people don't know what to say apart from what they want to say :) pity pity! How about using a manual how to choose to be with some one hand book? um... lets fall in love!!!? lets have FUN yummy yummy... lets get the best one? prettier one? sexier? richer? no money no honey in a Indian accent bigger? smarter? ok ok! i am simply not an specialist though it's complicated than what it really seems i think! Do we still judge the book by it's cover? or an iceberg by its tip. Be my guest! (may be you don't want to think before you talk then get what you deserve!). They say this is life. May be they are right.