The "Dying Field," or "Dying Place," was a small plot of land in Canton (now Guangzhou), Qing China, at the turn of the 20th century, where the sick, poor, and those who had given up on life could go to die undisturbed.[1][2]
^James, Ricalton (1901). China Through the Stereoscope: A Journey Through the Dragon Empire at the Time of the Boxer Uprising. Underwood & Underwood. pp. 62–64. ISBN0260736996.