Zhang Zhendong, a retired worker of Changchun City, Jilin Province, started to practice Falun Gong together with his wife in June, 1997.
On May 11, 1998, the old man suddenly caught a bad fever. His wife tried to persuade him to go to hospital for medical treatment, but he insisted that he was dispelling karma as a Falun Gong practitioner. His fellow practitioners urged him to keep practicing Falun Gong to take advantage of this good opportunity to dispel karma, and dissuaded him from going to the hospital or taking medicine.
On June 11, the old man finally agreed to go to the hospital. But it was too late; his disease had become incurable. Three days before his death he complained of Li Hongzhi's neglect of him. He pointed at Li's photo on the wall with trembling hands, and then tore it pieces.
