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

NINGXIA PROVINCE, CHINA - May 07: Li Yan sits in her wheel-chair in her home on May 7, 2007 in Yinchuan, Ningxia Province, 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. (Photo by Lucas Schifres/Getty Images)

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NINGXIA PROVINCE, CHINA - May 07: Li Yan sits in her wheel-chair in her home on May 7, 2007 in Yinchuan, Ningxia Province, 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. (Photo by Lucas Schifres/Getty Images)