Book 2: Chapter 6: Silent Mountain Ridge
I feel obligated to warn that this chapter ends in a cliffhanger…
Suicide.
The action of humans using extreme methods to cause their own deaths was “suicide”.
In Buddhism, suicide was also viewed as taking away a life, a disgraceful act. In Christianity, suicide was viewed as betraying God and abandoning their faith, their spirit unable to go to Heaven after death.
Despite this, there were still people that chose to commit suicide every day in the world.
There were many ways of committing suicide. Those from the moderate factions would go with wrist-cutting, jumping into a river, or hanging themselves; those from the radical factions would jump from a building, shoot themselves in the mouth, or light themselves on fire. Everyone’s methods were different, covering a wide spectrum. However, committing suicide by squeezing one’s head into a tiny glass fishbowl to drown themselves was something that had simply never been heard of.
When Ye Xiao first heard the forensic investigator say this, his first reaction was thinking that he had misheard. Then he couldn’t help but feel the urge to laugh as he shook his head and said, “How is that possible!”
However, upon arriving at the crime scene, he immediately witnessed this “impossible” suicide scene.
The location was inside a hospital that was part of a public healthcare system. They were on the corridor of the seventh floor in the inpatient department.