Popular American gay and transgender rights lawyer, David Buckel, left the whole world stunned on Saturday afternoon, as he committed suicide by setting himself on fire at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park to protest against the ecological destruction of the Earth.
Buckel, who was the first ever gay and transgender rights lawyer, left behind a burnt corpse and a typed suicide note that said he was burning himself to death using “fossil fuel” to reflect how mankind was likewise killing itself.
According to Fox News, he left the note in a manila envelope marked “To The Police,” recovered from inside a black metal pushcart he discarded at the scene.
“Most humans on the planet now breathe air made unhealthy by fossil fuels, and many die early deaths as a result,” Buckel wrote in his note, which he also sent to the New York Times.
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