Humans have always been destructive. Billy and his friend Trout seemed to know this better than anyone. In one of Trout's books about a money tree, he says about the tree, "It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. So it goes" (167). When humans fight and kill each other, all we are doing is fertilizing more fights to come. Each death only adds more fuel to the fire of war.
This is also reflected in how Billy dies. He is murdered by someone who promised to kill him for Roland Weary. Roland claimed that Billy killed him, which led Roland to request the murder of Billy. The chain reaction had already started. Roland's death sparked another, and had Billy not been so wise and accepting of his own death, he could have caused another. When will we realize that we are basically killing ourselves? We are feeding the fire that will eventually burn us, yet we can't seem to stop because it's the only way we know how to solve our problems. Billy had found another way, yet everyone called him crazy. So was Billy really crazy/mentally unstable, or was he simply tired of the way humans handle their problems?
Even though Billy is thought to be a crazy person, I think that he is a lot smarter than all of us. He is not as affected by things that happen because he believes that it is all part of life. Death does not even scare him because he knows that in all other moments except one he is alive and thriving. I think that once he realized all of this, he started to frown upon the way humans take care of things which is why he was so calm about his death, and just let it happen because he knew it was his fate
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