Talk:Self-immolation

message: In the opera Gotterdamerung, the main character of the opera burned herself to the fire. Does this count as the article mentioned? 24.24.187.165 (talk) 00:31, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Brunnhilde

message: For reference #6, there is a mention of epilepsy and immolation on the relevant page of the cited text, but it is not available for review. As well, the citation needs the name of the author of the study (a prison doctor) to establish veracity. A prison doctor, a clinician, seems like an unlikely source of information on this point, but I left the citation there for correction.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.130.248.176 (talk) 20:25, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  page changes 

message: The article doesn't mention this.--Cattus talk 10:52, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 

message: Self-immolation does not mean specifically to burn oneself. It means to sacrifice one's own life. Why is there an entire article to describe the incorrect meaning of a word?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.65.242.61 (talk) 19:55, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconding this. The page should be re-titled to auto-cremation, with "self-immolation" perhaps redirecting to Altruistic suicide. Marisauna (talk) 16:43, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

text: Updated lead to reflect broader use of "self-immolation." The more specific usage (autocremation) is too ubiquitous, even in scholarly sources (check Google Scholar), to warrant a title change. I'm not sure if the broader usage is used outside studies of Buddhism, which is where I first heard it. Marisauna (talk) 11:37, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A page for an incorrect use of a word? 

message: On October 4, 2013 a self-immolation took place in the United States on the National Mall in Washington, DC in view of the United States Capitol Building. This should be added to the page. Ref:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/investigating-a-self-immolation-on-the-mall/2013/10/05/3f509adc-2df0-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_gallery.html#photo=11  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.82.192.150 (talk) 02:36, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: National Mall

message: I went and read the sections of the Lotus Sutra regarding the Medicine King and I can find no mention of him self immolating. I will be changing this article to reflect that if an accurate citation is not produced.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.54.34.104 (talk) 17:53, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lotus Sutra and the Medicine King 

message: The german article has a list of incidents worwide: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selbstverbrennung . Why not in this englisch version?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.2.153.248 (talk) 20:51, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of worldwide incidents. 

message: what is ACE in dating?  BCE/CE I know. --2607:FEA8:D5DF:1AF0:35FD:9356:63C5:451E (talk) 11:02, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Dio Cassius, Zarmarus (or Zarmanochegas as Strabo calls him) immolated himself in the year of the consulship of Gaius Sentius and Quintus Lucretius, which would mean 19 BCE, not 13 BCE or 13 CE. Hairy Dude (talk) 03:53, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "ACE"? 

message: see Sati (practice) - should be mentioned here? --2607:FEA8:D5DF:1AF0:35FD:9356:63C5:451E (talk) 11:13, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No. LeticiaLL (talk) 16:07, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  suttee? 

message: Would anybody help me to create an Italian version of this page, since it doesn't exist yet? Sweet child of fire (talk) 14:57, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Sweet child of fire, I don´t speak Italian but if you do, you could try to polish this text. Good luck  JimRenge (talk) 15:23, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translate page into italian 

message: I couldn't find any information on the term "self-immolation" being used as "setting oneself on fire" in Lady Morgan's France (1817). Self-immolation has been mentioned three times without any description of the word. 
Wasn't she the one who coined the term? What does self-immolation actually mean?
(The book is available in Google books, anyone can look.) LeticiaLL (talk) 09:13, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sydney Morgan's France 

message: Can we also include Kathy Change's self-immolation in the United States section of this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Change  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:41:4380:4580:686B:F18F:ABA8:3ED2 (talk) 22:10, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kathy Change