Liu Siying had been a lovely and pretty girl with a nickname of “happy-nut”.  But now, her severely burnt face and hands tell people that she would no longer be happy again, Xinhua reported on January 30.

In the afternoon of January 23, Liu Siying, a fifth-grade primary school pupil in central China’s Henan Province, was led by her mother to Beijing’s Tian’anmen Square with a beautiful dream of soon entering the “Falun World”. There, they set themselves ablaze.

“The flame could not hurt you. It will only pass through your body and you will reach the paradise in a twinkling.”

“It is a wonderful world, you could at least become a dharma king and many people would serve you.”

That’s the remarks of her mother and other Falun Gong practitioners who encouraged her to set fire to herself. She later told a nurse when she was rescued by the police and rushed to Jishuitan Hospital, China’s best hospital for treating burn patients.

She failed to reach the “paradise”. The flames changed all. The great pain and fear made the young girl cry time and again “Mom”, “Uncle, Help! Help me!”

The hospital diagnosed the girl with burns to 40% of her body, heavy aspiration injuries in trachea and fourth-grade burns to the face.

In an instant, a healthy girl became a life-long physically impaired.

Doctors at the hospital said it was after 16 hours of treatment that her shock caused by the burn was preliminarily controlled.

Her head was bandaged and her burnt left hand hung in front of her chest after undergoing a skin-transplant operation. Her trachea was cut to be equipped with an endotracheal tube. A reporter recorded the following conversation between Liu and a nurse:  
“Why did you choose to commit self-burning”?  

“Going to the paradise.”

“Where is the paradise?”

“I don’t know.”

“What’s that world like?”

“A wonderful world.”

Pausing for a while, Liu said that it is a world “with gold everywhere and the road to the paradise is also paved with gold.”

“Why gold is everywhere there?”

“My uncles and aunts practicing Falun Gong told me.”

“Are you sure that you could reach that world?”

“I’ve not thought of the question. It depends on how hard I practice the Falun Gong.”

“How do you get to the paradise?”

“Physical body remains here and the spirit leaves.”

“How do you know that?”

“From the book ‘Zhuanfalun’ (Turning the Wheel of Law) and from Mom.”

“Why di