Hu Aiping, a worker in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, used to have a happy family. From 1996 to 1997, she and her mother-in-law practiced Falun Gong, together with their neighbors and colleagues. As time went by, Hu Aiping became more and more obsessed with Falun Gong. She was no longer concerned about her family, and her health became worse with each passing day. Her family members tried to make her see a doctor time and time again, but she believed in the claim of Li Hongzhi that Falun Gong practitioners did not need to see doctors, nor take medicine. Finally, one day in 1999, while practicing Falun Gong, she collapsed on the ground, and was sent to a hospital by her family members. She was diagnosed as suffering from tubercular meningitis. She died on April 22,1999.
Hu Aiping's mother-in-law abandoned Falun Gong after Hu's death. She threw the so-called sacred portrait of Li Hongzhi, and the books on Falun Gong into the dustbin.
