Self immolation
“Punctuation matters.”
Self immolation without a hyphen is the act of sacrificing oneself, for protest or religious stuff. Also called self sacrifice, unlike the hyphen one this one without hyphen does NOT contain fire. Although self immolation can be hardcore in other ways.
History[edit]
The word "immolation" means "to sacrifice" and in self immolation, you're sacrificing yourself. That's it.
Difference from self-immolation[edit]
The two terms might be confused by people. Self-immolation is extremely hardcore and FIERY, think that the hyphen is a match or lighter. The term "self-immolation" was invented by a Minecraft player who has purposefully stood in fire and went up in flames. He confused immolation(sacrifice) with ignition and called it a "self-immolation".
Examples[edit]
- Starving yourself to protest capitalism.
- Slitting your own throat to protest knife companies.
- Eating rat poison to protest pet shops.
- Freezing yourself to death in Antarctica to protest refrigerators.
- Stopping making studio albums to protest the record label. [1]
Effects[edit]
Killing yourself to protest something will NOT change anything. You just died for no reason. You'll probably me mocked of in internet.
- ↑ the Sisters of Mercy