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.
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.
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.
He was playing with fire the first time he took another dudes wiener up his pooper
My three guesses.
Does anybody know that the body is really his? Could be a way to get rid of someone else. Smells kind of fishy...
Looks like she's getting more sophisticated, typing up a "suicide note"
And not because it's probably the worst, environmentally, too.
I just hope he paid his tax bill before he flamed out.
Billy Joel - We didn’t light the fire
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.
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.
What a powerful climate change example for others to follow .
He was 60.
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
The Grateful Dead - Truckin’
Kansas - Dust in the wind
When you worship the creation instead of the creator. This is what happens. No different than the days of Noah.
Burn - Deep Purple
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnebZnysmI
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