Zhenhuan Lei had dreams of becoming a scientist, his mother said. He’d even conduct experiments late into the night. He once told her “life only affords a few chances.”
But now Lei, a 26-year-old University of British Columbia chemistry grad student, is in a vegetative state and doctors say it is unlikely his condition will improve.
In a statement translated from Chinese and provided by her lawyer, Lei’s mother Ying Li wrote she feels “as if I have experienced a death.”
“A promising life of a future scientist, an ambitious young man, has now turned into lying in a hospital bed every day and staring
