When US Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington last month, he restarted long-standing debates over the impact of self-immolation. Bushnell, ...

Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Mich., kitchen and lit themselves on fire. They were ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1963, the monk Thich Quang Duc soaked himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire to protest the government of the Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem. Within a ...

If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Warning: This piece includes photos of self-immolations. U.S. Air Force ...

An airman who died after setting himself on fire wrote that he was protesting Israel's war in Gaza. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to scholar Michael Biggs about the history of self-immolation as protest.

As an Air Force veteran, I was shocked and appalled by the foolish act of theater committed by engineer-turned-anti-Israel protester Aaron Bushnell (“Air Force fiery death,” Feb. 27). Livestreaming on ...

The media and activists shamelessly valorize self-immolation while confusing it with martyrdom. The effort to promote anti-Israel sentiment in all forms has gotten to the point where activists are now ...

This story contains explicit written descriptions of self-immolation. If you are in crisis, please call the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting ...