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== Real Life ==
* Perhaps the most famous was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th<!-- C3ADch_Qu%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c Thich Quang Duc]], a Buddhist priest who set himself on fire in protest of the South Vietnamese government in June 1963. Because he notified the press, photographers were on hand to capture on film Duc dousing himself with gasoline, lighting up, and then ''serenely sit there'' as [[DyingMomentOfAwesomeDying Moment of Awesome|he burned to death]]. His death prompted massive public protests that led to the coup that killed President Diem. Duc's heart remained intact, even after a second cremation to reduce the body to ashes for safe-keeping. The heart was kept and revered as a sacred relic. -->
* Richard Pryor set himself on fire while freebasing and literally did run down the street while ablaze in 1980. In his next big special, he [[Take That Us|made jokes about it]].
* Has happened more than once in [[Formula One]] and other racing sports. Some fuel sprinkles here, then it catched heat, and BOOM. Jos Verstappen's case is the most recent, but Niki Lauda and ''specially'' [[Tear Jerker|poor Riccardo Paletti]] take the cake.
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* Actually happened in the Vietnam era in the USA. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Morrison Norman Morrison], a Quaker protester of the war, set himself on fire outside the Pentagon in 1965.
* Self-immolation also happened in protests against the Chinese government's suppression of Falun Gong.
* Several people committed a suicide by self-immolation as a protest against Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Siwiec Ryszard Siwiec], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach Jan Palach], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Zaj<!-- C3ADc%C3%ADc Jan Zajíc]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ev%C5%BEen_Plocek Evžen Plocek]]. -->
 
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