"Twenty years ago, she was diagnosed with this disease. She couldn't endure for even three years and left this world. She... she committed suicide, she simply couldn't bear it any longer!"
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a type of motor neuron disease. It involves upper motor neurons in the brain, brainstem, and spinal cord, and also affects the lower motor neurons in the cranial nerve nucleus, anterior horn of the spinal cord, and the muscles they control. Clinically, it often presents as a mixed paralysis resulting from damage to both upper and lower motor neurons.
"My beautiful and youthful daughter couldn't bear such a torment from this disease. She couldn't bear to watch her muscles slowly atrophy. The doctor had said she could endure for two years after paralysis, but she simply couldn't hold on."
"Those few years, her agony... as a father, I had to watch yet could do nothing."