Editing Assisted suicide (section)

===China===
In China, assisted suicide is illegal under Articles 232 and 233 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://euthanasia.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000136|title=Euthanasia & Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS) around the World - Euthanasia - ProCon.org|website=euthanasia.procon.org|access-date=7 December 2016|archive-date=30 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330093516/https://euthanasia.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000136|url-status=dead}}</ref> In China, suicide or neglect is considered homicide and can be punished by three to seven years in prison.<ref name="glm">{{cite web |vauthors=Zeldin W |title=China: Case of Assisted Suicide Stirs Euthanasia Debate |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2011-08-17/china-case-of-assisted-suicide-stirs-euthanasia-debate/ |website=The Library of Congress |date=17 August 2011 |access-date=29 December 2017 |archive-date=29 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129165852/http://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/china-case-of-assisted-suicide-stirs-euthanasia-debate/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
In May 2011, Zhong Yichun, a farmer, was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the People's Court of Longnan County, in China's Jiangxi Province for assisting Zeng Qianxiang to die by suicide. Zeng had a mental illness and repeatedly asked Zhong to help him die by suicide. In October 2010, Zeng took excessive sleeping pills and lay in a cave. As planned, Zhong called him 15 minutes later to confirm that he was dead and buried him. However, according to the autopsy report, the cause of death was from suffocation, not an overdose. Zhong was convicted of criminal negligence. In August 2011, Zhong appealed the court sentence, but it was rejected.<ref name="glm" />

In 1992, a physician was accused of murdering a patient with advanced cancer by lethal injection. He was eventually acquitted.<ref name="glm" />