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Environmentalist Burns Himself to Death to Protest Fossil Fuels
Townhall.com ^ | April 14, 2018 | Timothy Meads

Posted on 04/14/2018 6:39:29 PM PDT by Kaslin

The New York Post reports that environmental activist and legal expert David Buckel has committed suicide in the name of environmentalism. The high profile lawyer, who made a name for himself as a prolific gay and transgender rights attorney, set himself on fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park earlier today.  

From the New York Post: 

"In a gruesome protest against the ecological destruction of the earth, David Buckel, 60, left behind a charred corpse and a typed suicide note that said he was burning himself to death using “fossil fuel” to reflect how mankind was likewise killing itself, police sources said.

He left the note behind in a manila envelope marked “To The Police,” recovered from inside a black metal push cart he discarded at the scene.

Witnesses report the scene was horrifyingly gruesome. 

“It was just lying there, on its back, knees slightly bent like someone would lie on the sand at the beach,” said Irena Ryjova, 44, who rollerbladed past at around 7 a.m., less than an hour after the immolation.

“It’s a shock; it’s a shame,” said mom Dana Lall, as she shepherded a crowd of Catholic school kids past the gory scene, en route to a baseball game.

According to the New York Daily News, the note started off "My name is David Buckel and I just killed myself by fire as a protest suicide. I apologize to you for the mess." 

My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves,” he wrote. “A lifetime of service may best be preserved by giving a life ... Honorable purpose in life invites honorable purchase in death...I hope it is an honorable death that might serve others," he added. 

Buckel's suicide in the name of political demonstration may be the most radical, and saddest, protest in recent memory. 

Author's note: Suicide for any reason is always a tragedy and never the answer. If you or somebody you know are contemplating suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention hotline. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Buckel family. 


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KEYWORDS: brooklyn; davidbuckel; energy; environmentalism; envirowhackos; flaming; globalwarminghoax; goodriddance; homosexualagenda; hydrocarbons; maga; neywork; opec; prospectpark; suicide
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To: Kaslin

My two guesses about this man;
A. He suffered from depression.
B. He was not religious or especially spiritual.
For some non-religious people, their existence is a very temporal one, some would say shallow. There is only what one experience here and now on earth. If they cannot rely on help from themselves, from friends or from the Government, then they are fated to receive no help or support or validation at all.
C. He did not seem to realize that by the end of this coming summer,
most people will have already forgotten his ill concieved ‘sacrifice’. The Picnics, BBQs and Soccer games will all continue, unabated.


41 posted on 04/14/2018 6:54:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Kaslin

42 posted on 04/14/2018 6:54:29 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Navy Patriot

The age raises a Spockian eyebrow to me. It seems to me he might have been diagnosed with some terminal disease rather than him really dying for his cause célèbre.


43 posted on 04/14/2018 6:54:37 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Kaslin

He was playing with fire the first time he took another dudes wiener up his pooper


44 posted on 04/14/2018 6:55:45 PM PDT by digger48
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To: lee martell

My three guesses.


45 posted on 04/14/2018 6:56:04 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Kaslin

Does anybody know that the body is really his? Could be a way to get rid of someone else. Smells kind of fishy...


46 posted on 04/14/2018 6:57:26 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: lightman
Wonder what he knew about Hillary?

Looks like she's getting more sophisticated, typing up a "suicide note"

47 posted on 04/14/2018 6:57:46 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: Kaslin
Of all the ways to off oneself, that's probably the worst.

And not because it's probably the worst, environmentally, too.

48 posted on 04/14/2018 6:58:03 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.")
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To: Kaslin

I just hope he paid his tax bill before he flamed out.


49 posted on 04/14/2018 6:59:26 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: dfwgator
Bruce Cockburn (not Springsteen) - Homme Brûlant (which means, "the burning man")
50 posted on 04/14/2018 6:59:49 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Remember this video.

California - Wax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_RELjHhD2s


51 posted on 04/14/2018 7:02:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Billy Joel - We didn’t light the fire


52 posted on 04/14/2018 7:04:24 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: dfwgator

Sorry, I missed that one. Hot concept, though...like the sh*t-eating grin on the guy at the end as he points to the picture and shows the clothes on the rack.


53 posted on 04/14/2018 7:08:03 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Kaslin

Gay and transgender rights, then commits suicide in a gruesome way. A person has to be pretty infested with demons to do all those things.


54 posted on 04/14/2018 7:08:52 PM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: Bonemaker

What a powerful climate change example for others to follow .


55 posted on 04/14/2018 7:11:35 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue)
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To: lightman

He was 60.


56 posted on 04/14/2018 7:12:59 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: dfwgator

Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire

The Grateful Dead - Truckin’

Kansas - Dust in the wind


57 posted on 04/14/2018 7:20:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Kaslin

When you worship the creation instead of the creator. This is what happens. No different than the days of Noah.


58 posted on 04/14/2018 7:20:55 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: Kaslin

“Fire” by Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Live version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE


59 posted on 04/14/2018 7:21:27 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: dynachrome

Burn - Deep Purple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI


60 posted on 04/14/2018 7:22:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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