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Top LGBT rights lawyer sets himself on fire at Brooklyn park in protest suicide
The Hill ^ | 4/14/2018 | John Bowden

Posted on 04/15/2018 5:31:51 AM PDT by Hadean

A prominent LGBTQ rights lawyer died after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday. David Buckel, 60, killed himself after sending messages to multiple news outlets including The New York Times claiming his intentions to set himself on fire to protest the world's usage of fossil fuels at the expense of the environment.

"Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather," Buckel wrote the Times in an email. "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."

"A life of privilege requires actions to balance the harm caused, and the greater the privilege, the greater the responsibility," Buckel added.

"For if one does not leave behind a world better for having lived in it, all that remains are selfish ends, sometimes wrapped in family or nation."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; davidbuckel; envirowhackos; globalwarminghoax; goodriddance; homosexualagenda; lgbt; liberalparanoia; newyork; prospectpark; suicide
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To: Morpheus2009

Egypt in 2011, Tunisia mid December 2010...


61 posted on 04/15/2018 10:19:10 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Hadean

Considering the likely damage, hurt and pain this Homosexual lawyer has caused to others and our society as a whole, I am glad he’s dead. Hopefully, this will become a trend.


62 posted on 04/15/2018 10:35:40 AM PDT by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: WashingtonSource

LOL wondered where the term came from.


63 posted on 04/15/2018 10:36:29 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Getready
People who commit suicide dont normally convince others of the correctness of their cause.

They don't. But this suicide was probably more about personal depression than about any great cause. In Buckel's mind, the cause justified what we was going to do anyway.

64 posted on 04/15/2018 10:53:59 AM PDT by x
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To: Hadean

Prayers for a deeply disturbed soul.


65 posted on 04/15/2018 11:34:27 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Hadean

Finally some good news!


66 posted on 04/15/2018 11:44:29 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: chesley
Well, at least he wasn’t the usual liberal hypocrite wanting other people to die to save the planet. He did his part.


67 posted on 04/15/2018 11:46:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hadean

Liberalism is a mental disease and it should be classified and delt with as such.

JoMa


68 posted on 04/15/2018 12:19:35 PM PDT by joma89
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To: x

I have heard that he may have had AIDS as well, and may have ended himself before the various effects did.


69 posted on 04/15/2018 1:10:35 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Hadean

Some problems just have a way of working themselves out.


70 posted on 04/15/2018 1:12:57 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: dfwgator

:)


71 posted on 04/15/2018 3:38:29 PM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: Morpheus2009
People say that AIDS isn't an automatic death sentence anymore, so unless his meds failed, depression may have been a more likely reason.

There's a relationship between depression and obsessional thinking.

72 posted on 04/15/2018 4:27:48 PM PDT by x
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To: x

It never was an immediate death sentence. The effects of HIV infection are slow and occur over years. There are cases where people find that the virus has become adapted such that the medications are no longer effective, either after a while or earlier on. I have heard that some of the side effects of the medication used can be a real b#&! As well. I suspect some serious depression with some kind of awful event whether a relationship breakup from hell or something unfortunate happened which broke him on top of his already big issues with depression.


73 posted on 04/15/2018 5:37:40 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: sauropod

Revisit.


74 posted on 06/09/2021 8:00:52 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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