Posted on 04/15/2018 4:03:04 PM PDT by MNDude
A prominent gay rights attorney who led lawsuits legalizing same-sex marriage set himself on fire in Brooklyn on Saturday morning in a fatal plea for action on issues related to the environment. The body of David S. Buckel, 60, was found near Prospect Park's baseball fields about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday after a passerby reported a severely burned individual, the New York Police Department said. "I am David Buckel and I just killed myself by fire as a protest suicide," read a handwritten suicide note, according to the New York Daily News. "I apologize to you for the mess." Another note found near his body, which was also emailed to local news outlets, said his self-immolation was a call to action, according to The New York Times
"Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather," he wrote in an email, according to the Times. "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."
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Suicide is a ticket to hell. By now he is thinking maybe he should have taken some other approach.
One would hope that he bequeathed his insurance policy to some kind souls who will plant trees to compensate for his final carbon footprint.
Which caused the Catastrophic positive feedback loop that ended his life.
Made me spew my drink
Doubt that’s the whole story.
Attention ho. I guess the cleanup is less messy than a blood-spattered apartment though.
Suggested to be sung at funeral: “You Light up My Life”...
Kinda puts a new definition to the “flaming homo” narrative.
prominent: important, well known, leading, eminent, distinguished, notable, noteworthy, noted, illustrious, celebrated, famous, renowned, acclaimed, famed, influential, affluential, major-league.
Not anymore, if he ever really was. Seems he hit burn out.
If you are talking HIV, then it’s likely not a problem unless the virus adapted to the drugs or if he was having very bad side effects from the drugs. I suspect murder might actually be possible.
Maybe it will catch on.
No, "Light my Fire" by the Doors.
If I want to learn about the environment, I always go to a NY queer lawyer for information, as opposed to someone that has actually been in an environment that wasn’t man-made.
How about both, followed by "I Did It My Way"?
I reckon so...
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