Song Xiaotian had gone to investigate Hua Wenfeng during the day, but he had found nothing so far.
Hua Wenfeng had no criminal record. On the surface, he seemed like a law-abiding citizen.
To find out why he had become this way, we would have to dig into his family background, the environment he had grown up in, his social life, and whether anything major had happened while he was at school.
Looking into those things required visits and interviews, so it wasn't something that could produce results in a single day.
After he explained his views on life and death to me at the clinic today, I had a rough idea of how he was inducing these people to kill themselves.
My mother, for example.
I certainly didn't want my mother to die. I wanted her to live, and more than that, I wanted her to live happily.
But my mother was suffering. If she kept dwelling on those things and couldn't move past them, she would keep suffering.
And that suffering was mental torment, which fit into Hua Wenfeng's views on life and death.
When explaining his views, Hua Wenfeng had used a gravely ill, dying elderly person as an example.
Suppose a doctor could cure a gravely ill elderly person and free them from the pain of their illness. Then they would be cured, and neither dying nor living in agony would apply.
Suppose the doctor could do nothing to save that gravely ill elderly person and could only barely prolong their life. In that case, letting nature take its course would instead show respect for them and spare them some suffering.
But most people with mental illnesses weren't beyond treatment. They simply lacked companionship and understanding.
If someone encouraged them to seek "release" just because they