A prominent 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, explaining his intention 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.”
Read more at The Hill.
{Matzav.com}
Feh!
A big toeivanik and toeivah activist
The opposite of a tzaddik.
And the liberal media wants to make it like he was a tzaddik, a korban?
FEH!!!!!!!!!!!!
He finally realized that he has no children, and nothing to live for anymore, so he decided to go out in a blaze.
There are people without children who are great tzadikim, who do many mitzvos.
This guy was rasha merusha. Maybe he had AIDS, maybe he was having multiple conflicts with fellow teoiva reshoim.
רשעים בחייהם נקראים מתים
I wonder how much pollution he added when his corpse burned?
Good riddance. Kein Yirbu!
As if this self-emollation wasn’t an act of useless burning of fossil fuel. He must have been a highly successful attorney.
I assume He won’t need to breathe the bad air anymore
Crazy…nice way to send a message to the world. Perfectly deranged.
Sadly this sicko was unable to convince any of his friends to join him.
A real nut case! You’d think a lawyer would have some brains in his head.
Wow, a real nut-case.
I pray that Al Gore and all his ilk follow this guys example.
One less pollution.
A mushugana
If only all the death-cult human-hating “environmentalists” would repeat this feat.
At least he did not harm others.
I read he was a toeiva sinner plus he fought for same gender marriage. One less evil sinner in this world.
כן יאבדו כל איבך ה’ – שופטים ה, לא
A korban oila
Now he is ready for the real fire in gehenim.
In a way Commiting suicide is a benefit for him because he stopped being a toeiva sinner. One less sin in this world is better for him. It’s like a nazi commiting suicide and thus commiting less sins.
The only sad part about this story is that he did not burn himself 60 YEARS AGO !!!!!!!!!!
Wow!!! What an inspirational act!! Message received- now people will jump off bridges so as not to pollute the air while they commit suicide.
All the toeiva crowd should follow his example.