I was kinda shocked to find this article, or one like it, a few months after the event. It's funny how they didn't say at the time why he set himself on fire. They essentially negated his death, what a waste.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-19/person-sets-self-on-fire-outside-trump-trial

There was no indication Azzarello had any specific grievances related to Trump or his trial. Instead, police described him as a “conspiracy theorist.” A New York Times photographer took a picture of Azzarello holding a sign that read, “Trump is with Biden and they’re about to fascist coup us.”

About 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, Azzarello walked to the center of the park, pulled pamphlets from a book bag, threw them into the air, then doused himself with liquid, New York Police Chief Jeffrey Maddrey said. Officials said the liquid was an alcohol-based cleaning solution.

Police said Azzarello did not appear to have targeted anyone else in the incident. He appeared to have reached out to several news outlets beforehand to announce the planned self-immolation.

Writing on Substack, he described himself as an “investigative researcher” and rambled about conspiracy theories.

He referred to cryptocurrency as a Ponzi scheme that was engineered to bring about a worldwide coup and described “The Simpsons” as propaganda for the mafia.

Sounds like he was a regular here. Lmao we have heard from axolotl_peyotl since then right? I doubt its him, and I doubt the self immolator visited this space, and I certainly hope he did not get the idea to self immolate from me.

But I get it. Sadly I do. I never believe in suicide as thats a long term solution to a short term problem. But when your life is over, and has been for years. I get it.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/opinion-mother-set-herself-fire-100028640.html

My mother’s self-immolation was the prologue to my life. Every time another instance of self-immolation occurs, as happened earlier this month outside a courthouse in New York City, I wonder about the people and where they sit in the lineage of the act. The inevitable think pieces after a high-profile self-immolation often sound the same, because what can one say? It’s an incredibly contextual act. It’s personal, and political. The act is the message, and vice versa. You cannot understand what it means without knowing the person’s story. And sometimes not even then.

I’ve always been reluctant to link my mother’s story to any sort of protest. It felt both sensational and inaccurate to place her suicide attempt into the political history of self-immolation. Because of our cultural tendency toward binary thinking, people are quick to pick a label to understand this act: protest or illness. To accept an act as protest neither negates nor implies mental illness. Both things could be true at once, and other factors altogether could be in play. Implying that mental illness precludes taking a stance is infantilizing.

In a 1965 letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnamese monk Thích Nhất Hạnh wrote about how difficult it is for the Western Christian conscience to understand the self-​immolation of Vietnamese monks. He explained that the actions were neither suicide nor protest, but were devotional: "During the ceremony of ordination, as practiced in the Mahayana [Buddhist] tradition, the monk-candidate is required to burn one, or more, small spots on his body in taking the vow to observe the 250 rules of a bhikshu, to live the life of a monk, to attain enlightenment and to devote his life to the salvation of all beings. … The importance is not to take one’s life, but to burn. What he really aims at is the expression of his will and determination, not death."

For me, like I said, when your life has been over, and it has been for years.

The last thing you can do is go out the way you want to, im sure we have all felt powerless at one point or another, I remember as a kid feeling completely powerless, and as a adult when being poisoned with the freon.

No one in my family has ever had heart attacks, they all died from heart failure at the end. But since the freon triggered the arrythmias in my mid 30's, im sure ill be having heart attacks at 50. Its some real bullshit to go from having some palpitations to full blown pvc's and irregular heart rhythms. The hyper parathryoidism is likely contributing to the damage.

I get a little preview at night lately when I lay down. My heart will start flipping out of rythym and I cant get oxygen in me properly. Nothing worse than trying to breath two times to get one breath. This has to be what copd feels like.

Whats worse? Dying quickly through self immolating, and I imagine the first few minutes are eternity, but at a certain point the pain receptors just turn off and your body is flooded with dmt and other hormones.

Or dying from multiple heart attacks over years while a bunch of strangers snicker and laugh at you.

Or dying from running out of phosphorous because I am homeless and cant afford pop lmao.

Self immolation suddenly just looks better to me, I dont know why. Id love to do it right in front of wcbs building too.

Azzarello, you will be missed.