I dunno.
It kinda grabs my attention when monks do it for whatever reason and I look into the reason and it’s usually over some horrific injustice by an autocratic or communist ruling party.
I would look into why this guy burned himself and I would see that over 1200 Israelis were mercilessly killed, raped (men and women), beaten, tortured, whole families burned alive, babies murdered and there are Israelis still being tortured.
And I would think he burned himself for the wrong side.
And then I would forget all about him.
Masochists only get my disgust, not my attention. The monks were raving idiots dreaming that playing torch was going to change the world.
It’s one thing to accept incineration for your beliefs. Rome used to get off on human torches as a form of execution. Now that MIGHT have affected people’s behavior if used to prevent criminal acts, except that it was used on Christians who believed that it just gave them a faster pathway to heaven. No idea if the Buddhist monks were of that belief, too.
But it’s another thing to willingly choose to play marshmallow on the chance you’d make some big change in society. To me, that’s just insanity.