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Prominent gay rights lawyer sets himself on fire in protest suicide
CNN is fake news ^

Posted on 04/15/2018 4:03:04 PM PDT by MNDude

A prominent gay rights attorney who led lawsuits legalizing same-sex marriage set himself on fire in Brooklyn on Saturday morning in a fatal plea for action on issues related to the environment. The body of David S. Buckel, 60, was found near Prospect Park's baseball fields about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday after a passerby reported a severely burned individual, the New York Police Department said. "I am David Buckel and I just killed myself by fire as a protest suicide," read a handwritten suicide note, according to the New York Daily News. "I apologize to you for the mess." Another note found near his body, which was also emailed to local news outlets, said his self-immolation was a call to action, according to The New York Times

"Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather," he wrote in an email, according to the Times. "Most humans on the planet now breathe air made unhealthy by fossil fuels, and many die early deaths as a result — my early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves."

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To: MNDude

Suicide is a ticket to hell. By now he is thinking maybe he should have taken some other approach.


41 posted on 04/15/2018 5:19:22 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Pearls Before Swine

One would hope that he bequeathed his insurance policy to some kind souls who will plant trees to compensate for his final carbon footprint.


42 posted on 04/15/2018 5:27:53 PM PDT by alstewartfan (Lines of coffee cups on parade. Soldiers for keeping the night away. Al Stewart in Delia's Gone)
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To: MNDude
mentally ill because he was a radical leftist, which resulted in radical leftist contributing to his mental illness.

Which caused the Catastrophic positive feedback loop that ended his life.

43 posted on 04/15/2018 5:38:42 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: MNDude
May his many admirers follow suit. Cmon guys, make a Statement!
44 posted on 04/15/2018 6:00:44 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: MNDude
May his many admirers follow suit. Cmon guys, make a Statement!
45 posted on 04/15/2018 6:04:15 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Penelope Dreadful

Made me spew my drink


46 posted on 04/15/2018 6:22:48 PM PDT by Figment
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To: MNDude

Doubt that’s the whole story.


47 posted on 04/15/2018 6:35:12 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: MNDude

Attention ho. I guess the cleanup is less messy than a blood-spattered apartment though.


48 posted on 04/15/2018 7:14:57 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: MNDude

Suggested to be sung at funeral: “You Light up My Life”...


49 posted on 04/15/2018 8:25:59 PM PDT by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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To: MNDude

Kinda puts a new definition to the “flaming homo” narrative.


50 posted on 04/15/2018 10:39:36 PM PDT by mikefive (RLTW/DOL)
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To: MNDude

prominent: important, well known, leading, eminent, distinguished, notable, noteworthy, noted, illustrious, celebrated, famous, renowned, acclaimed, famed, influential, affluential, major-league.

Not anymore, if he ever really was. Seems he hit burn out.


51 posted on 04/15/2018 10:57:16 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: Penelope Dreadful

If you are talking HIV, then it’s likely not a problem unless the virus adapted to the drugs or if he was having very bad side effects from the drugs. I suspect murder might actually be possible.


52 posted on 04/16/2018 6:17:36 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: MNDude

Maybe it will catch on.


53 posted on 04/16/2018 6:25:00 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Migraine
Suggested to be sung at funeral: “You Light up My Life”...

No, "Light my Fire" by the Doors.

54 posted on 04/16/2018 6:27:00 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: max americana

If I want to learn about the environment, I always go to a NY queer lawyer for information, as opposed to someone that has actually been in an environment that wasn’t man-made.


55 posted on 04/16/2018 6:38:39 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: fwdude
Suggested to be sung at funeral: “You Light up My Life”... No, "Light my Fire" by the Doors.

How about both, followed by "I Did It My Way"?

56 posted on 04/16/2018 8:44:12 AM PDT by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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To: Gator113
Seems he hit burn out.

I reckon so...

57 posted on 04/16/2018 8:46:20 AM PDT by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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