林优里 / Hayashi Yuri

林优里 / Hayashi Yuri is the Kyoto ALS patient discussed in 119.安乐死现场：正因生命如此珍贵. The episode says she was diagnosed in 2011, repeatedly expressed a wish for euthanasia, and in 2018 connected through Twitter with a doctor who said he would help if prosecution could be avoided.

Her 2019 death becomes the episode’s sharpest Japanese legal-warning case. The court, as summarized by the source, viewed the doctors as non-primary, non-specialist physicians who lacked sufficient knowledge of her symptoms, did not involve her main doctor or family, and received money, making it difficult to treat the act as purely patient-centered mercy.

Connections

• Japan - legal and cultural setting of the case.
• Assisted Death Clinical Responsibility - main concept around specialist knowledge, doctor-patient relationship, disclosure, and payment.
• Assisted Dying Safeguards and Law-Morality Boundary - procedural and criminal-law frames tested by the case.
• End-of-Life Autonomy And Dignity - patient choice claim that remains ethically present but not legally sufficient in the episode.