Man commits suicide by leaping into giant bonfire at Burning Man-style festival in Utah

http://www.nydailynews.com ^ | 07/14/2014 | BY Philip Caulfield

[redreno]

A man killed himself at Burning Man-style arts festival by leaping into a towering burning art structure in front of hundreds of horrified onlookers, authorities and witnesses said.

On Monday, scores of "burners" - who commune in the Nevada desert every August for Burning Man -were mourning the doomed festivalgoer after he dove into the flames during a moonlit bonfire ritual at the Element 11 fest near Salt Lake City late Saturday.

[Salamander]

In the Appalachians, it would “Put the far out, man!”.

[Salamander]

What?

Nobody got the video on their phone?

[Eaker]

LOL!

[NFHale]

To each their own, friend. You believe what you want to believe, I will too.

No offense meant to you.

[RichInOC]

No, Ed was smart enough not to want to go in.

[Sirius Lee]

Marijuana is a gateway to suicide by fire?

Yup. Get toasted, then get roasted.

[OldNewYork]

Horrible. I wonder what mental illness he had been walking around with, and how long.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Yup. Get toasted, then get roasted.

No, get toasted, get munchies. 1970, BK 59¢ Whopper, fries, freshman 15, oops, I have a Monday 8 am class?

Sorry, unless you are an addictive personality, pot is not a gateway.

[mware]

Woodward was in the unique position of having two of the most shocking deaths in cinema history.

Wicker Man

Breaker Morant.

[Slings and Arrows]

It scarcely seems possible.

[John S Mosby]

Via whatever agent of choice which followed the original tag to genetic code area, be it cannabis, booze, heroin— all receptor mediated and brought on by dependency cycle. Quite well documented actually despite all attempts to ignore the data and the studies. These types of festivals (Burning Man in particular) attracts a heavy cannabis crowd, and a lot more. So it could have been acid, for that matter. But the receptor process remains the same, just different receptors.

Some people run for an endorphin high (a uh, natural high so to speak), and others just keep looking for more receptor satisfaction— the “gateway” allusion.

This case, could be a depressogenic response to chronic alcohol along with any of a dozen agents, including cannabis. Suicides are way up— even among bankers (stoned, paranoid, or otherwise). Deo Vindice.

[Slings and Arrows]

Jo Dee Messina - Burn

[tet68]

Nobody got the video on their phone?

well, the guy did but he didn’t have time to send it
to anyone.

Must have been some good sh*t...

Cue Arthur Brown.

[ConservingFreedom]

others just keep looking for more receptor satisfaction— the “gateway” allusion.

So drugs are used by those inclined to seek receptor satisfaction - and pot is usually the first illegal one they use. Not much of a gateway.

[John S Mosby]

First through the gate, as it were- to the other narcotic receptor agents. Technically, booze is the first gate— just not classified as a cns narcotic (in the US Pharmacopaeia classification system).

Neither booze or cannabis is “benign” to people with the coding for the response.

Recall the case of the fantastic bassist Jaco Pastorius— who inherited bipolar disease, and whom Joe Zawainul (Weather Report) introduced to booze (which he later said he will carry to his grave the responsibility of killing a musical prodigy). The booze sent Jaco over the bipolar edge and he never came back. Bizarre behaviour and then murdered by a bouncer. Sad.

[ConservingFreedom]

Technically, booze is the first gate [...] Neither booze or cannabis is “benign” to people with the coding for the response.

I agree with all of that.

[Salamander]

Ha!

;D

[I’ll be humming that all night, now]

[Redcitizen]

You’re right.

[Conspiracy Guy]

He jumped into a burning pile of fire.
He went down down down and the flames went higher.
And he burned burned burned.
The pile of fire, the pile of fire.

[JRios1968]

Marijuana is a gateway to suicide by fire?

Yup. Get toasted Baked, then get roasted Baked.

Fixed