Chinese who ran microblog on his cancer battle dead

BEIJING - “I am gone. I will see you in the next life” - this was the last post of a Beijing resident who used his microblog to detail his battle against cancer.

Forty-year-old Xu Dawei died of liver cancer Jan 29.

His last words - “I am gone. I will see you in the next life.” - were posted by his family as per instructions in his will, the Beijing News report in Shanghai Daily said.

Xu’s mircroblog attracted over 6,000 followers and his last posts received nearly 20,000 comments, praising his courage.

Xu thought of running the microblog Nov 9, the day he was diagnosed with the last stage of liver cancer. He, however, failed to start it for the next one month as he was very sick.

“My husband dictated several posts to his brother when he was receiving chemotherapy,” the Shangai Daily quoted Lin Jun as saying.

“He was having intravenous injections on one hand and his other hand was paralysed because the tumor was pressing on a nerve.”

Lin added: “We had to keep him awake in his final days as once he fell into sleep, his lung function was in danger of shutting down. But he continued dictating posts.”