Dying Without Killing: Self‐Immolations, 1963–2002
Dying Without Killing: Self‐Immolations, 1963–2002
This chapter provides an overview of self-immolation in the last four decades, from an original database of over 500 individual acts. It is divided into five main sections. The first sketches the history of self-immolation. The second examines the prevalence of self-immolation among causes, across countries, and over time. The third section focuses on the orchestration of the individual action. The fourth section tackles the central question — why? — by elucidating the various motivations for self-immolation. The final section considers the effects of the action.
Keywords: self-immolation, collective causes, fire, suffering, motivation
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