Committing suicide could be expensive for the family of the death seeker and this is the case of a man who jumped to his death in central Taiwan’s Nantou County in 2016.

Taiwan News 
Date: 2017/10/24
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)—Committing suicide could be expensive for the family of the

death seeker and this is the case of a man who jumped to his death in central Taiwan’s Nantou County in 2016.

According to the written judgment of Taiwan High Court’s Taichung Branch Court, in April, 2016, a man surnamed Lin went up to the roof of the seven-floor building where he lived ,crossed a short wall to the roof of a next building, jumped off the building, and crushed a female vendor surnamed Chen selling vegetables on the roadside, killing both himself and the woman. On Tuesday Taiwan’s Supreme Court affirmed the high court’s verdict that Lin’s family should pay NT$5.2 million (about US$173,000) damages to Chen’s family.

Chen’s husband and five children collectively filed a civil lawsuit against Lin’s wife and her three children, seeking an award of damages. Chen’s widower told the court that he was married to his wife for 50 years and took her to the same location to sell vegetables every day. The loss of his wife also meant the loss of the mother for his five children, who were very saddened by their mother’s sudden departure, Chen’s widower said, adding that they were seeking NT$6.5 million in damages, the court judgment said.    [FULL  STORY]