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Colorado man dies after setting himself on fire in front of Supreme Court, police say

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WASHINGTON – A Colorado man has died after lighting himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Friday evening, police said.
The man — who was 50 and from Boulder, Colorado — went to the plaza in front of the court building at about 6:30 p.m. and set himself on fire, D.C. Metropolitan Police said. He was air lifted to a hospital before he died from his injuries.


Huh....Sorry, I just cant see the reasoning here.
Better to fight alive than die in a useless gesture.
 
Sometimes you have to ask yourself, do I want to set fire to myself today? The honest answer is usually not just no but hell no.
 
Bum said:
WASHINGTON – A Colorado man has died after lighting himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Friday evening, police said.
The man — who was 50 and from Boulder, Colorado — went to the plaza in front of the court building at about 6:30 p.m. and set himself on fire, D.C. Metropolitan Police said. He was air lifted to a hospital before he died from his injuries.


Huh....Sorry, I just cant see the reasoning here.
Better to fight alive than die in a useless gesture.
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He is probably following the example of the monk who protested the vietnam war.
 
Rest in peace.
 
lemmiwinx said:
Sometimes you have to ask yourself, do I want to set fire to myself today? The honest answer is usually not just no but hell no.
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Hmmm, Set myself on fire, or just take the day off...
 
Bum said:
WASHINGTON – A Colorado man has died after lighting himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Friday evening, police said.
The man — who was 50 and from Boulder, Colorado — went to the plaza in front of the court building at about 6:30 p.m. and set himself on fire, D.C. Metropolitan Police said. He was air lifted to a hospital before he died from his injuries.


Huh....Sorry, I just cant see the reasoning here.
Better to fight alive than die in a useless gesture.
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No note? No manifesto? Nuthin'?
 
RAMOSS said:
He is probably following the example of the monk who protested the vietnam war.
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And will end up as nothing more than a footnote in Wikipedia....nothing will really change.
 
RAMOSS said:
He is probably following the example of the monk who protested the vietnam war.
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I just about posted that picture but thought it might violate violence rules, or something.

Side note. First time I went to Vietnam we visited a monastery and watched them pray and get waited on for food, etc. Chilled around the grounds and I came across this little building that had this familiar looking car in it. On the wall was a plaque. It was the car in the background of the monk lighting himself on fire. It was a monk from that monastery that did that and that was their car so they put it there as a shrine and token of history.

EDIT: Found it!

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Emily L said:
Apparently, they don't yet know why he did it. Sadly, he might have simply been crazy.
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I didn't find anything in the article about it. Some grievance combined with unstable mental health?
Years ago we had a patient who had previously set himself on fire, trying to commit suicide. The team barely got him through. He came back some years later after having set himself on fire again. One would think that, going through such agony (those who have worked with burn patients will never forget the screams), he would have sought some help or chosen a different method. He died.
 
Lovebug said:
I didn't find anything in the article about it. Some grievance combined with unstable mental health?
Years ago we had a patient who had previously set himself on fire, trying to commit suicide. The team barely got him through. He came back some years later after having set himself on fire again. One would think that, going through such agony (those who have worked with burn patients will never forget the screams), he would have sought some help or chosen a different method. He died.
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Gosh. I have always heard that burning is extremely painful. I, too, don't understand why people would choose that method. Really sad.
 
It's one thing to pick your battles, but its another to self immolate.
 
RAMOSS said:
He is probably following the example of the monk who protested the vietnam war.
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That was horrid.

Along with the pic of that young girl running after being napalmed.

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Two pics from the era that are indelibly stamped upon many of our minds . . .
 
I'd like to know what he believed he was protesting?
 
One less person likely to vote the wrong way.
 
Chomsky said:
Perhaps the best comment in the thread. (y)
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I have to disagree...a life lost will not change the current wave; no lost life is worth then current politics.
 
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