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Liu Ping-hon's Death
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his university studies.
Indeed, on his obtaining his
Government position, with consequent financial security
for the family for first time, he was in the process of
trying to persuade his aged mother to retire from her
menial work. As it was, he lived with her in the
kindergarten and made every effort to assist her in
this employment.
Personality
as
Liu Ping-hon's outward and happy personality,
demonstrated to his family and to his numerous friends
and student colleagues, was patently not the nature of
a person who might be thought to possess what are
colloquially-termed "suicidal tendencies". His whole
history was that of a man energetically involved in
life, and any consideration of his struggles through
exam failures and financial deprivation to arrive where
he was is such as to totally refute any suggestion that
he may have given it all up and committed suicide. His
whole pattern of living shortly before his death was
that of a person with every expectation of a bright
future.
The Morning of his Death
He had left his mother in a happy mood to go down to
buy bread. It seems highly improbable that he would
have made up his mind there and then to go into a
strange building (he had apparently not been there
before and would not have known whether or what parts
were locked) and then jump from some part thereof.
Indeed, if he had been minded to commit suicide, it
would seem both easier and more logical to have used
his own building, which was 10 storeys high, and with
an easily accessible and familiar roof. Moreover,
the contents of his pockets - $39, I.D. Card, swimming
pool card, keys, student rail ticket, pens, diary