Pictured: Climate activist, 50, who died after lighting himself ablaze in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day wrote '4/22/2022' and a fire emoji in a Facebook post from 2020

Daily Mail ^ | 04/24/2022 | Adam Manno and Matt McNulty

[Bonemaker]

A climate activist who died after setting himself on fire in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day is a buddhist who hinted at his future self-immolation with a fire emoji under a Facebook post from 2020.

Wynn Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colorado, lit himself on fire on the court's plaza at around 6.30pm Friday.

He suffered critical burns and was pronounced dead at a local hospital on Saturday.

On October 30, 2020, he shared a link to an online class on climate change offered by edX, a free online course platform created by Harvard and MIT.

Last April, he went back and commented: '4-1-1 4/22/2022,' along with a fire emoji.

Surveillance footage of the immediate aftermath of the fire show police officers as they attempt to calm Bruce, who can be heard screaming in the background.

Police are still investigating a motive, but a Buddhist priest from Boulder took to Twitter to clarify that Bruce's death was not a suicide, but a 'deeply fearless act of compassion.'

[DallasBiff]

Lefties, don’t die on the sword, they self immobulate themselves for a political reason.

[Born in 1950]

Leftism is death.

[BenLurkin]

Sad story. He obviously had mental health issues.

Very typical of the most strident liberals.

[FreeperCell]

My story is I did not snicker!

[the_daug]

A million more like this and they could put a dent in climate change.

[Mouton]

Yup. That is almost a +2 for the good guys. Full plus 2 status if he was from DC.

[null and void]

Fire
I’ll take you to burn
Fire
I’ll take you to learn
You gonna burn, burn, burn
Fire
I’ll take you to burn

It's a crazy world...

[Pollard]

Propagandized to death

[srmanuel]

It’s kind of sad that someone is so mentally off they allow all the climate change rhetoric to drive them insane.

In his mind, he figured he was going to burn up one way or the other might as well go out in a blaze of glory and try to make a political point.

He’s almost like a Al Qaeda suicide bomber, convinced in the righteous cause to point of killing themselves.

[NFHale]

Used to play that with my band… and “Don’t Fear The Reaper” too,

[EEGator]

LOL, you could follow it up with Don’t Fear the Reaper...

[SpaceBar]

I wish more leftists would realize that suicide is the only honorable way to express themselves.

[gibsonguy]

The crazy world of…

[OrangeHoof]

Too bad he died - I would have preferred he live in great pain for years first.

By my understanding, burning to death is one of the most painful ways to die.

But don't cry for him. He'll be voting (by mail) for Democrats in Colorado for the rest of the century.

[M Kehoe]

Did he burn himself up with petroleum products?

How ironic.

5.56mm

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Hopefully he stipulated that the $327 left in his checking account go toward purchasing carbon credits to offset his charring. < /sarc >

[OrangeHoof]

All the global warming alarmists should commit to reducing their carbon footprint in such spectacular fashion.

...along with the alarmists who think the planet is overpopulated. My advice to them, "Lead by example. Off yourself now." Nooooooo, it's always someone else who should be killed to save the planet.

[beethovenfan]

Did he care nothing about the emissions he generated?

[MV=PY]

Ow! That must have hurt like the dickens!

[Bloodandgravy]

He should have talked all his friends into doing it.