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.
Well you’d have to weight that against the carbon footprint he would have had had he lived another 20 years.
It is a religion to these people.
I've heard he's despondent over college
You win the post of the day!
Congrats!!
he’s going to go to environmentalist hell for dying as a carbon based fuel.
I encourage all environmentalists and leftist lawyers to follow his brave example.
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.
Suicide is a terrible thing. A horror to contemplate, both here and hereafter. Don't wish suicide on anyone.
well, there goes his carbon credits.
Some songs they can play at the funeral:
Bruce Springsteen - I’m On Fire
Blue Oyster Cult - I’m Burning For You
The Doors - Light My Fire
Feel free to add your own.
...especially since it has become dangerously dry in the NE/MidAtlantic this week.
Wait until he finds out that hydrocarbons were an actual gift from God.
He will feel so silly about what he did.
He dumped his carbon into the atmosphere to protest the dumping of carbon into the atmosphere.
Environmentalism, climate change....it’s a religion to these leftists. This is why, in the end, you can never make peace with these people.
We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel (no, but HE did)
I give this crispy critter a little credit, the enviro-nutjob didn’t take anyone with him.
Who is to say he didn’t use ethanol?
Environmentally conscious to the end.
Wow...just Wow! He certainly made a statement...
I just don’t know what. Like all those Buddhist monks decades ago. Poor guy was out of his mind. RIP.
But someone rollerbladed past the horrifyingly gruesome scene. Well alrighty then.
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