Top LGBT rights lawyer sets himself on fire at Brooklyn park in protest suicide

The Hill ^ | 4/14/2018 | John Bowden

[Hadean]

A prominent LGBTQ rights lawyer died after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday. David Buckel, 60, killed himself after sending messages to multiple news outlets including The New York Times claiming his intentions to set himself on fire to protest the world's usage of fossil fuels at the expense of the environment.

"Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather," Buckel wrote the Times in an email. "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."

"A life of privilege requires actions to balance the harm caused, and the greater the privilege, the greater the responsibility," Buckel added.

"For if one does not leave behind a world better for having lived in it, all that remains are selfish ends, sometimes wrapped in family or nation."

[Morpheus2009]

Well, goodbye. Should have been a little wiser and promoted biogas or whatnot.

[Ancient Man]

Where’s the downside?

[Neoliberalnot]

Firing yourself up is so gay. Let’s all celebrate the open closet door with a heart warming event.

[carmen2017]

That will show them. Ha Ha Ha Ha

[goldstategop]

One carbonized liberal dude.

Well, uh - bye!

[TnTnTn]

Mental illness is real....ironic he increased his carbon footprint and pollution as his last act...

[gov_bean_ counter]

A human carbon offset...

[tuffydoodle]

Did anybody bring the weenies and marshmallows?

[goldstategop]

You can’t fix stupid.

Proof liberalism is a form of mental illness.

[TheCipher]

Well, that’s one protest that went up in smoke.

[gov_bean_ counter]

As if more proof was needed...

[Hazwaste]

The media think that a person nutty enough to roast himself to death suddenly qualifies as a scientist.

[Sirius Lee]

So to protest fossil fuel the creepy faggot turned himself in to a human faggot...

with fossil fuel?

[Morpheus2009]

Well, they want to draw sympathy from him. Kind of like the Vietnamese monk that kit himself up with gasoline.

[NY Cajun]

And, for an accelerant, he used what?

[anton]

I guess that tells us a little about the stability of the “top lawyers” for LGBT, then doesn’t it. A raving f’ing madman capable of self immolation.

Sounds about right.

[Iron Munro]

Maybe this will become the new homo fad.

[Does so]

Proof liberalism is a form of mental illness.

Likely accelerated with an illegal drug.

[escapefromboston]

I think he got the two different definitions of faggot mixed up