Chinese Man Seeks Afterworld Wife For Dying Older Brother

From NetEase:

Because of me and my second brother, because of our family, to this day my eldest brother still hasn’t gotten married. How can I let my brother leave [pass away] like this? As the younger brother he that worried him the most, that he doted upon the most, I can’t let him enter another world alone. Perhaps I’m influenced by tradition, but these days I have been obsessed with an almost ridiculous but unshakable idea to find a companion for my eldest brother, a companion in the underworld, a bride in the netherworld, so she can keep him company there, so he will no longer be alone…

I’m a university graduate, 24 years old, from Henan Sanmengxia. I’m the youngest of three brothers. My father is an ordinary retired worker. My mother has poor health and suffers from a heart condition.

In order to for my second brother and me to go to school, for our mother’s medical expenses, for our poor family, my eldest brother quit school after graduating middle school to work in a restaurant. When we had financial difficulties he also worked other odd jobs.

My oldest brother gave us all of his youth. Because of us, he’s already 31 and still hasn’t married. So that my second brother and I can grow up, our big brother declined many marriage opportunities, saying that the pressure/stress would be even heavier after marrying and having to raise a family, especially if his wife is unreasonable and he can’t do what he wants…After I got into university I decided that when I graduate and start working, I will save money and help my eldest brother get married.

But things didn’t turn out as expected, just when I was about to graduate, on June 9th of this year, I received a call from the hospital, saying that my brother has a terminal illness–severe liver failure, and is dying. When I got to the hospital and saw how sick my brother was, I was shocked, it was as if I was in a nightmare. When my second brother cried on my shoulder, I felt so helpless, what should I do? What can I do?

Chinese man in Chinese hospital bed.

Why? Why did this happen? My brother worked hard for so many years, taken on so much that wasn’t his responsibility. When his two brothers are both graduated and starting to work and the most difficult days are over, why would god do this to us…

At the time the doctor told me and my second brother to be mentally prepared. “The only effective treatment is a liver transplant, the costs are very very high, and your family unfortunately probably can’t afford it, see…” Besides the transplant, the most effective way to keep my brother alive is to artificially manage his liver functions, and every treatment costs around 10,000 RMB. The treatment must be done every two to three days. Because we don’t have money, my second brother and parents have been trying to gather cash. Today we just finished the second treatment, and we’ve already spent everything that we’ve borrowed, it isn’t enough…

A doctor told me, “Don’t cry, be prepared, your brother’s chances of survival aren’t good.” I wanted to tell him, even if it’s only a 1% hope, even if treatment fails, we can’t give up. Please tell me how we could be so cruel as to abandon him!

Man connected to hospital machine.

I didn’t write this to ask for pity, and definitely not to make a fool of myself, but to ask sympathetic people to help me look for, unmarried women that have passed away at around age 30. If her family are willing, I will help my older brother to offer them a certain sum as wedding present, when he passes away, I will hold a wedding styled funeral for them. (Qualifications: deceased at around 30, died within the last 2 years, unmarried, no criminal records, please provide a photo. Nationality and ethnicity are unimportant, other conditions can be worked out in person.)

When my second brother who had gone out to unsuccessfully borrow money came back and heard what the doctor said, he immediately turned around and went out again, saying he was going to try begging people to borrow money again, that if we can persevere a few more days then we’ll persevere a few more days…god, please bless my loving, kind-hearted brother…

Everyone, I earnestly ask that any good-hearted people to please help me realize my wish, thank you!

My contact number: 15993747530

Comments from NetEase:

zydlyjforeve:

Fraud???

qaztyuqw:

What is this?

yanzi8175211:

Just want to win sympathies so people will donate money! There are lots of dying young men in hospitals, why should we donate money to you?

mai_titi:

This really makes me…speechless.

军师:

Ridiculous! A university graduate and he’s so superstitious!

zhhsen11:

Stop lying to everyone, aren’t you just trying to get everyone to donate money?

笑笑2211:

Which family would agree to this?

zhengguobin8:

Too ludicrous, I can’t wrap my finger around it, does the younger brother have a mental disorder? Any family’s daughter that would do such a foolish thing, they would all be idiots and incomprehensible!

cn4620985:

A completely bad joke!

def11:

Good luck to your brother!

龙城≮霸主≯:

Good people will be rewarded! Hope your brother can find a bride in the underworld…

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  • http://thebigc.blog.com narsfweasels

    …sounds heartbreaking, but with all the scams here, who would genuinely believe it?

  • melody

    3rd, and it might be a sad story but i dont know which,,,

    • melody

      whoops, i mean 2nd**

  • Spanky

    Too bad they don’t have a sister. Sell her virginity and then work in a brothel to cover costs (this is standard practice in China since it is a “People’s Paradise”).

  • bando

    how tragically unfair of life. You give everything you can and get death in return, that’s life.

    However, seeking for deceased female partner is probably stupid since gender means nothing when you’re dead and sex is only for the living. You may as well search for a deceased male companion.

    Superstition makes people stupid.

    • HardyPengood

      Hmmm. For a lot of reasons it sounds like a good match for that Ball-gargler guy.

  • Rick in China

    I don’t even get why this is posted, even the translated comments call it out as worthless bullshit.

    That being said, the LZ is obviously a mentally retarded peasant, I like the part about “has declined many marriage opportunities” — ya, every girl in the world *initiates* marriage proposals to fat ugly poor restaurant workers.

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    Why do they need girl’s photo? Aren’t all souls beautiful?

  • http://www.lovelovechina.com Crystal

    Why do they need girl’s photo? Isn’t it soul’s beauty that matters in Afterworld?

    • HardyPengood

      Ironically, it’s the opposite: you don’t have your body or anything physical to work with in any regard once you are dead. You’re not going to be getting a shoulder massage or someone to male you some tea. All you get is the photo. Do you understand now?

  • Sebz

    Great stuff for a horror movie. Oh, horror movies are forbidden in China.. feudal superstition. Damn commies!

  • FYIADragoon

    Buy your brother a body pillow and give him a sexy anime waifu.

  • http://imgur.com/gGpso.png PUSAN PLAYA

    This is the most depressing thing I’ve seen since Bill Cosby’s “Ghost Dad”

  • Shanhairen

    Even worse is people stealing corpses and selling them to families to bury alongside their recently deceased young men. The Economist did a story on it a couple years ago:

    http://www.economist.com/node/9558423

  • scammer

    They probably want deceased girls photos, for use in online scams in dating sites.

  • Jonny

    Why would you need to pay to have 2 dead people get married? don’t get me wrong I do feel bad for his brother but there are very ludicrous elements to this story. Good luck. Rest in peace.

  • Dayeth

    This cultural thing HAS TO STOP…

    For people unaware what I’m getting at there’s a market for dead brides………. They kidnap rural girls and kill them and sell them to families like this.

  • Woody

    To many Conmen in China…unbelieveable!

  • chloe

    it’s not a joke, to those that were raised in the western culture, you wouldn’t understand but a lot people do that in china. they matched a deceased relative with another. it’s the same as how some cultures believe there’s an after life or heaven or whatever it is

  • uncommon sense

    umm.. i don’t think that’s how it works buddy. like the laws of physics in this world, there are spiritual laws in the next world. you don’t get to invent those laws, sooo yeah your best bet is to pray to Lord Jesus Christ because he’s the only way to the Creator of this world and the next, but even in heaven i think what you’re asking for is nothing short of a miracle.

  • Josiah

    Yeah if you can get a paper maid surely you can find a paper wife. Or skip the whole wife thing and just send him 20 sexy french maids.

  • outcast

    My sentiments exactly.

  • HardyPengood

    That comment used forty-two words, which is a lucky number because it adds up to six. This one has thirty words, which adds to a three, and is lucky, too.

  • Joe Blow

    What’s the difference between being Religious and being Superstitious? . . . Yeah, I don’t know either.

  • HardyPengood

    I think you meant to say some are “curvy” or “thick”.

  • korean_guy

    Alain’s demise should be a warning to all that ball-gargling can cause asphyxiation. So do it at your own risk and only do it if you’ve already been married. It would suck to die by ball-gargling asphyxiation as a bachelor.

  • Mike_In_Zhengzhou

    Hell? That’s that old Catholic thing. Is that ‘hell’ concept still going around today? I’m pretty sure the religions that once promoted that concept have long since abandoned it.

  • Zian

    I totally agree with you, Xino. Granted being married in the after life means nothing people still want to push their happiness “over there” in a realm they have ABSOLUTELY no control.

    This life is simple. Accept Jesus as the bridge back to God or burn in hell for rejecting ultimate and pure love. That is the only major decision you need to make in life. You got free will here but really, choose life.

    People can joke or criticize about religion being lame or made up but why gamble with your soul?

  • charlo

    Many people really need JESUS!I Know for sure that there is a life after death for everyone,the question is where will you spend your eternity when you die?Heaven or Hell?save your souls people,before its too late.coz right now at this moment,There is weeping and gnashing of teeth happening in neverland.they are asking for 1 second back to earth to accept JESUS ,but its too late,they think they are in a terrible nightmare and that they might wake up,but NO!They will never wake up from this nightmare!its real! its eternal!make a choice now before your time is up.No one knows his hour!REPENT AND SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO JESUS!

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