28-Year-Old Athlete’s Sudden Death and “Organ Donation” Sparks Panic

Yan Jianbo, a 28-year-old national first-class wrestler, was pronounced dead by doctors due to cerebral hemorrhage. Officials claimed that his family agreed to donate his organs free of charge. When Yan’s mother said goodbye to her son, she was inconsolable and collapsed in grief. (Video screenshot)

[People News] Recently, 28-year-old wrestler Yan Jianbo from Hunan Province died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage. Authorities announced that his parents had decided to donate several of his organs free of charge. On the morning of October 30 at 6 a.m., the Fourth Hospital of Changsha held a brief memorial ceremony in the organ acquisition operating room to bid farewell to Yan Jianbo. His two kidneys, one liver, and a pair of corneas were said to be allocated to patients in need.

Videos posted on the X platform showed Yan’s family in deep agony—especially his mother, who wailed and fainted repeatedly, caressing her son’s face and refusing to let go. This scene was completely unlike the authorities’ description of a calm and voluntary donation.

Yan’s mother said she still could not believe her son was gone. She stated, “My son had always been very healthy and had never had any major illnesses.”

In response, many mainland netizens questioned: “Was the organ really donated?” “Was this in Changsha Xiangya Hospital?” “Who was targeting him?” Others reminded, “Look into Luo Shuaiyu and you’ll understand.”

Luo Shuaiyu was an intern doctor at Xiangya Second Hospital of Central South University in Changsha. In May last year, he exposed that his mentor and the hospital’s dean had forced him to provide 12 child organ donors within three years. The next day, on May 8, he mysteriously fell to his death—widely suspected to have been silenced. Officials gave no response.

Netizens also mentioned that in May 2023, a 24-year-old master’s student from Shaoyang, Long Xingyu, was declared brain-dead after being treated for a knee injury, and doctors pressured his parents to donate all of his organs for free.

Yan Jianbo’s case led many netizens to comment that in recent years, there have been frequent reports of patients losing organs during surgery. Combined with the recent surge of sudden deaths among young and middle-aged people in China, it has caused widespread fear.

A Douyin (TikTok China) blogger named “Xianrenju” posted a video on July 22 stating that he works in the funeral industry: “In the past three years, the number of corpses under 30 years old has tripled.” He added that “70% of them were completely healthy before their sudden death.”

Another Douyin blogger, “Old Liu from Zibo Funeral Cemetery,” said bluntly in a July 25 video: “Who are crematoriums receiving the most now? Not the elderly—but the post-80s and post-90s generations! Our night shifts are all handling sudden deaths—people dying from staying up late, overworking, being crushed by pressure. The next one could be you! Every day we cremate endless young people!”

Netizens from various provinces echoed: “I’m post-80s, and 30 of my classmates have died in 5 years.” “Same here, at least 10 classmates gone.” “I was born in 1990, 6 classmates have passed.” “Post-2000, 21 friends around me have died in the past 5 years!”

Even more alarming, recently some Shanghai parents posted videos showing that schools gave their children consent forms from the Shanghai Center for Disease Control requesting parental signatures for collecting biological samples. One parent said she refused to sign. The issue has caused widespread panic among parents.

As early as June 2024, China’s National Health Commission, together with the National Development and Reform Commission and 12 other departments, jointly issued the “Opinions on Promoting the Healthy Development of Human Organ Donation Work,” encouraging citizens to sign voluntary organ donation consent forms. Since then, there have been frequent reports from netizens claiming that others had forged their signatures on such forms.

Mainland citizens say that under CCP rule, all Chinese people are unfortunate. Ordinary people must survive toxic food, fake medicine, poisonous vaccines, and severe pollution—while struggling through unemployment and extreme poverty. Now, they must also guard their own and their children’s physical safety to prevent hospitals from targeting their organs. “Being exploited like leeks was already miserable enough—but now we’ve become ‘human mines,’ drained and discarded as waste.”

They conclude: “All this misfortune was caused by the CCP. The suffering and tragedy of the Chinese people will not last forever—it will vanish with the collapse of the Communist Party.” △