S Korean dies nine days after self-immolation at anti-Japan protest

A sad waste of a life.

Well. A life has banished. This guy through he was doing a good thing. But people with mental issues tend to be forgotten pretty soon.

This is not India with Ghandi with a meaningful objective looking forward to "better" humanity and mankind as a whole.

Looking backward to "learn" is different from demanding and forcing change from those indirectly related based upon past actions of those that are no longer here to take responsibility for those actions.

Sad, but life must go on with or without the "approval" of one individual or group.

Darwin award.

I presume the family will be demanding apologies and compensation from Japan next?

And he died for what? Todays newspaper is tomorrows fish and chip paper. Who cares or remembers other than his poor family?

Darwin award.

He was 81 years old. I doubt his demise at this stage will have any effect on his lifetime offspring count.

Sadly, I doubt his demise will have any effect on anything.

An individual's death is a tragedy (Stalin quote)

@ elephant - that would be hypocritical, coming from a guy who killed tens of millions of his own people.

His act as well as the other self immolation ones mentioned in the article were totally pointless and we will forget about them soon.

But I bet the Koreans won't.

I'm surprised by all the hostility from the JT gallery. Self-immolation is obviously a terrible thing to do if done in a way that endangers others, such as on a shinkansen. But the trend seems to be men at the end of their lives who are passionate about a cause. I think these are people who are ready to die, maybe even depressed and suicidal, desperate for one last way to use their life for a cause they believe in.

Self-immolation is not a good way to fulfill that impulse, but compared to other popular methods of expending your life for a cause (bomb vests, shooting up a public space until the cops shoot you) it at least generally seems to have low collateral damage. I pity people who self-immolate, but it seems especially heartless to laugh at them or hate them.

I reckon SOME here who doesn't support this Korean man, would still support the Kamikaze.

'Immolate' means to sacrifice. Nothing to do with burning, despite what the newspapers tell us....

@katsu

I pity people who self-immolate, but it seems especially heartless to laugh at them or hate them.

Perhaps, but what is it with Koreans, they seem to go crazy when it comes to this stuff, stabbing themselves, cutting off their fingers, tearing piglets apart, now setting fire to themselves?

Why the masochism?

What is it meant to prove?

Whatever it is, I don't think it's working. It just makes them look mentally ill.

It is so sad, his hate killed him.

Sad, and pointless. Stop living in the past, Korea! What if Americans sat around blaming King George III for our problems. You aren't the only country to ever have been colonized, though your leaders pretend you are.