Teng Mei-ling, managing editor at The China Times newspaper, is one of this type. When her husband was killed in an airplane disaster, she was unable to deal with the pain of his death and used to try to numb it by drinking herself into a stupor in the middle of the night.
先生在空難中喪生的中國時報編輯鄧美玲表示，她初時因為無法承受喪偶之痛，常常獨自在三更半夜藉酒澆愁，喝到大醉。