Mr. Ballin

On the day of Mona's actual execution, she was going to be hanged along with her assistant and husband.

They too were found guilty.

On her walk to the gallows, we have all these reporters and all these photographers and she's still flashing smiles and treating it again like it's her own personal movie premiere.

I mean, she didn't care at all that she's literally about to be killed.

And then literally her final words as the noose is being put around her neck were, I'll never die.

One evening in February of 2011, a man in his 30s named Yang was eating dinner inside of his home in a rural village in China.

Around him at the table were his five elderly aunts, who he lived with and took care of.

Now, nobody spoke over dinner.

It was totally silent.

But this was common, and it was not awkward at all.

Because Yang actually preferred silence.

He had been born with a disability that made it nearly impossible for him to speak.

It also had left him blind in one eye.

And over the course of Yang's life, he had been sort of bullied for his disability.

And as a result, he really didn't like being around other people.

And he certainly didn't like trying to talk to other people.

I mean, that was really, again, something he had a really hard time doing.

But in his life, the few people that totally accepted him and loved him were his family, in particular his five aunts.

They didn't care at all that basically he never spoke.

And so, for example, at this dinner table, there was no expectation that anybody would speak.