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set themselves on fire and burned alive in front of everyone - this form of protest for thousands of years. Yes, it is effective, and easy to see why: the self-immolation are terrible, and therefore attract attention: people want to find out how someone brought to such a step. In particular, because of one of the self-immolation began the Arab Spring.

It is no wonder that other people who have the same reasons for the protest, choose the same way to express their point of view. If one person can not even attract a lot of attention (it happens albeit rarely), the group of people podzhёgshih themselves harder to ignore. But hidden in the human psyche, another strange and terrible reason that people can self ignite: not for the sake of protest or of despair, but simply because it is done by someone else.

After the self-immolation Lynette Phillips during the month of ten people in the UK is also set themselves on fire. For the year to do so is already 82 people, the youngest was 14 years old, the oldest - 89 years. Epidemic Research found that 94% of suicide suffer from mental disorders, most often depression.

One couple set fire to themselves because of marital discord, and in the same year another man arranged with a friend of a double suicide, because parents would not allow them to be together. He set fire to himself, but thought better of it in time and did not do.

In 2013, the year in France, unemployed man committed suicide with the help of self-immolation in protest - he refused to pay the allowance. Two days later, 16-year-old doused himself with flammable liquid and struck a lighter in front of classmates. Fortunately, the flame was shot down before he got serious injuries. The same day, another man tried to burn himself on the street, but survived thanks to the passers-by.

The reasons for such epidemics is unknown.

via factroom.ru