Erin Conroy on Nostr: There are academics who study self-sacrifice as a protest method. It's called ...

There are academics who study self-sacrifice as a protest method. It's called "self-immolation" - immolation means "sacrifice." "Auto-cremation" means self-burning

"an act of self-immolation involves an individual intentionally killing [themselves] (or at least gambling with death) on behalf of a collective cause"

Michael Biggs, "Dying Without Killing: Self-Immolations, 1963–2002" in *Making Sense of Suicide Missions*, ed. Diego Gambetta,
Oxford University Press, 2005

https://users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/immolation.pdf