Students in China walk 2km to take graduation photos with gravely ill classmate, he dies the next day

They Walked 2km to Take His Graduation Photo — He Died the Next Day

A 16-year-old student from Yilong County, Sichuan Province, died on 18 May 2025 — just one day after his classmates and teachers held a special graduation photo session at his hospital bedside. Classmates Walk 2km to Hospital for Special Graduation Photo Ren Junjie, a junior high school student in Sichuan Province, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last year, forcing him to take a leave of absence from school to undergo treatment. Image: S…

Students in China walk 2km to take graduation photos with gravely ill classmate, he dies the next day

Students in China take graduation photos with bed-ridden classmate with cancer In a heartwarming scene, junior high school students from Sichuan Province, China, walked to a hospital last Saturday (17 May) to take graduation photos with their classmate, who was gravely ill. According to LTN, 16-year-old Ren Junjie (name transliterated from Chinese) was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma — a type of blood cancer — last year and had to take a lea…