Feng Yufeng, 32, from Liujiading Township, Jixian County, in Tianjin.
Feng Yufeng had serious impaired hearing. In early 1999, she heard that practicing Falun Gong would cure deafness, so she spent 50 yuan to buy some books and tapes and began to practice Falun Gong. According to her husband, Feng became obsessed with Falun Gong within three months of time. She spent almost every minute on practicing. Originally Feng cared much of the family, but later she neglected her child's study and did not want to do any housework. She forbade her family to watch TV, saying that without TV she could concentrate on practicing and attaining the "true meaning" of Falun Gong. She often told other people that she could live without eating anything and would feel no pain even if a piece of flesh was cut off from her body. She then became more insane, and often murmured to herself that a hawk was pecking at her.
On 22 March,1999, Feng Yufeng and her husband Liu Laihu went to work in the fields. Before leaving their home she said she would ascend to Heaven. At noon her husband asked her to go home to prepare lunch. Back home, Feng Yufeng cut her wrist with a kitchen knife, stained the blood to write a letter, and then left. Her body was found on 14 April in a nearby stream. An autopsy confirmed that she had committed suicide by drowning herself.