Student in Denver sets himself on fire in school cafeteria

[GoOKC1991]

Wow

Student sets himself on fire at Denver-area school

[OKCisOK4me]

Maybe he wanted to be the album cover for one of the local garage bands, ala Rage Against the Machine.

[Achilleslastand]

Maybe he wanted to be the album cover for one of the local garage bands, ala Rage Against the Machine.

That would be enough to make anyone set themselves on fire......

[RadicalModerate]

That would be enough to make anyone set themselves on fire......

Yet . . . what about Arthur Brown's contribution to the cause . . ?
(back in '68?)
[pre-internet/social media]

[kelroy55]

That's sad

[Garin]

Seems to be a lot of trouble teens from Colorado.

[bluedogok]

There are a lot of troubled teens everywhere, much of it from lack of parenting.

[RadicalModerate]

Maybe they shouldn't have shown him that video--of that Buddhist Monk over there in Vietnam back in the day--in Civicshistorydiversity Class.

(it really is very, very sad . . .
yet at least he had the decency not to take out his frustrations/angst/etc.
on a bunch of "innocent" by-standers.)

[gjl]

Very sad. I can't imagine the demons one has to have inside them to do such a thing. Fortunate he didn't feel the need to harm others in his attempt.

[MadMonk]

"This is not someone's fault. I had this planned for years," the teen wrote in a social-media post. He went on to mention that friends over the weekend tried to talk him out of the suicide attempt. "If anyone says that they know why I did this, ... nobody knows and nobody will."

Man, that screams of an abusive childhood. Sad it had to come to this.

[GoOKC1991]

Suicides in general are out of hand, be it from abusive parenting or bullying. Very sad.