Climate Activist Dies of Burns After Setting Himself on Fire at Supreme Court
Wynn Bruce death… “was not a suicide but a ‘deeply fearless act of compassion.'”
One green justice activist took his Earth Day commemoration to a new level this Friday.
A climate activist who lit himself on fire on Earth Day outside the United States Supreme Court Building has died, according to reports.
Wynn Bruce, 50, of Boulder, Colorado, died Saturday, a day after he set himself ablaze in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Police Department told Fox News.
The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. on the plaza in front of the court building.
He was airlifted to a local hospital, where he died.
#Update: Just in – Video reportedly from near the Supreme Court, of the person being airlifted after he set himself on fire on the steps outside of the Supreme Court building in Washington #DC. #US pic.twitter.com/eQO8IowmqA
— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) April 22, 2022
A fellow activist indicates Bruce didn’t commit suicide but succumbed to the inevitable consequences of his Earth Day protest theater production.
Kritee Kanko, a climate scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund and a Zen Buddhist priest in Boulder, said that she is a friend of Mr. Bruce and that the self-immolation was a planned act of protest.
“This act is not suicide,” Dr. Kritee wrote on Twitter early Sunday morning. “This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis.”
She later added in an interview that she was not completely certain of his intentions, but that “people are being driven to extreme amounts of climate grief and despair” and that “what I do not want to happen is that young people start thinking about self-immolation.”
A preliminary investigation has revealed that it Bruce had childhood head and leg injuries, so was unlikely to have gotten to the Supreme Court on his own power.
It’s unclear what prompted the Boulder man to set himself on fire. Information pertaining to Bruce’s background is not yet fully known.
The man’s neighbors told Denver7 that they are unsure how Bruce made it to Washington since he was unable to drive.
They said a childhood accident left Bruce with an injured leg and head injuries.
Meanwhile, in Paris, Climate change activists forced the closure of the main square.
The Extinction Rebellion (XR) had said on its website that it planned to block a major Parisian location to disrupt the electoral cycle and its “business as usual” attitude.
While the cost of living is the top election theme, energy policies are closely linked to that, and incumbent Emmanuel Macron and his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen have put forward very different policies on the renewables sector in particular.
“We are blocking this Paris square to rebel against alternatives that we don’t have. This election leaves us with no choice between a far-right candidate with repugnant ideas … and a candidate who during five years cast the ecology issue aside and lied,” Lou, 26, a history teacher, who joined the Extinction Rebellion movement two years ago told Reuters.
Climate change protesters block central Paris square to protest election choices https://t.co/KmwFRjLYGS via @Yahoo crybabies if we do not get our way, they act out prove to me that it is man as the cause of this and not the Sun as NASA says
— Marshall Green (@marshallgreen51) April 16, 2022
Clearly, the Earth’s climate is much more stable than the climate protesters.
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Wynn Bruce wins the Darwin Award.
A shining example of the success of our public schools.
I see it as a shining example of people brought up with Pernas he just didn’t care. Not everything to be blamed on the schools.
I see it as a shining example for Smokey the Bear to say, “Don’t play with matches.”
The mentally ill walk (and burn) among us. What a wack job.
What do you call a car full of lawyers that fell over the cliff?
A good start.
(bad taste on a legal site? maybe, but substitute climate change ecowarriors for lawyers…..
good on him for living up to his beliefs. May others feel as passionately.
Living up to his beliefs? The idiot unnecessarily employed fossil fuels and spewed un-sequestered carbon all over the urban landscape.
If he had actually been a man of his convictions, he would’ve chosen to be crushed to death by a glacier. After all, what’s the rush?
Well he “carbon neutralized” himself. No further emissions of CO2. Sad. He will be a brief historical mention.
You’re giving him too much credit. Combustion of organics gives off a good deal of CO2…he probably gave us 10 years worth of his miserable life.
But… his basic carbon footprint will be buried 6 feet under… that is sequestration!!
I think he should have fed a polar bear instead.
All a polar bear is, is a Cartesian bear with different coordinates.
You can have ’em. I’m tired of having my angles mauled.
Nonsense. If you’re beliefs lead you to self-immolation, you have the wrong beliefs.
But this is what comes from the mindset which would say, “May others feel as passionately”. As if intensity of feeling is somehow noble in and of itself. Those who allow themselves to be controlled by the intensity of their passions, are children who have never grown up.
Nothing is as inense as a two year old’s tantrum.
But the right solution.
The crows of the likes or The View: follow suit.
‘Inevitable consequences, not a suicide’ is a novel description of someone choosing self immolation; aka lighting your ass on fire.
Could it be he was a Palestinian terrorist assembling a bomb on the Supreme Court steps?
The significance of his self immolation will be insignificant with the passage of time. ( and he had no real significance to begin with)
I just hope he was not legitimately mentally challenged and others put him up to it- if he was in control of his faculties then this was a textbook example of cause and effect.
My tinfoil hat suggests to me that he may have decided this was an easier way out than the normal course of a newly discovered case of Lou Gehrig’s disease, or the like.
That I could understand and maybe even agree with ( go out with a bang for a cause and sparing years of pain)
I just don’t think that’s the case here- maybe the truth will be known one day.
I suggest this only because reports describe this protester as having been a physical wreck since childhood, and suffering neurological damage, rendering him more susceptible to these sort of complications.
That sounds pretty sick, but at the same time it’s entirely possible.
I will find out June 1 whether I’ve rid of all of my cancer. If I’m not, I have some decisions to make. Setting fire to myself is not the way I will do it however.
I had a friend with ALS, and he chose to go out on his own terms rather than to let the disease take its course. ALS is a particularly EC Comics way to die, gruesome in the extreme. It’s like living the Cask of Amontillado, inside your own head.
Joe Trippins protocol. Look it up
Fenbedazole
Praying for you Grizz.
Thank you. As it is, I have been struck down with fever but no other symptoms Than a loss of appetite. I did two consecutive home Covid tests over a space of 24 hours. Negative. I see the doctor tomorrow. With my history, I am a bit worried.
Aw, I’m so sorry, Grizz! I understand your concern and am glad you are seeing your doctor. Take care of you, we need you!
I will be praying for you.
Thani you.
Praying for you, Grizzly. May the Holy Spirit deliver healing, comfort and strength.
Amen..
Death by fire is not an ideal way to go.
It depends who’s on fire, and who’s defining ideal.
So far he has been the toast of the town…
OK… maybe all he did was go out in a blaze of glory…
If that’s the case, I hope he took a crap load of painkillers first.
The amount he’d have needed to blunt the pain of those burns would have left him incapable of striking a match, I’d imagine.
Behold the piezo lighter.
It’s already insignificant. It was many things, including irrational and narcissistic, but overall, it was meaningless.
I still wonder why anyone considers this kind of innanity worth even mentioning? He was a grandstanding idiot. Seems like the responsible thing to do would be to remove the grandstand.
The commie media are hell-bent on propping up that grandstand
^ This.
“This situation requires a incredibly stupid gesture on someone’s part.
And that someone is us!”
Spot on. Compounded by interviewing that complete nut job, Kritee Kanko, who attempts to portray this as some sort of well thought out inevitability rather that the actions of a mentally ill human being.
Sooo, the buddhist lady claims it wasn’t a suicide? That would make anyone who aided and abetted this climate idiot in killing himself guilty of the same crime(s) that girl who goaded a guy into killing himself was convicted of.
And then, she claims she isn’t sure of his intentions after lauding his “intentions.”
And THEN, she worries about the copy-cat suicides of young folks the left has actively been indoctrinating for decades, telling them that the world is ending before they hit thirty.
The lefties are shameless apologists and accomplices in every instance of eco-extremism.
Buddhism is irrational by definition. The nonsense flowing from that woman is but an example.
What this guy did at the Supreme Court will change nothing.
Cf., https://ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu/selections/thich-nhat-hahn/
To protest the anti-Buddhist policies of the Catholic president of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, during the Vietnam War, in June 1963, an elderly Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, went to the crossroads at Phan-Dinh-Phung Street in Saigon, sat in the lotus position, poured gasoline on himself, and set himself on fire in order to call attention to the sufferings of the Vietnamese people under Diem’s oppressive regime. As he burned to death, a disciple read his last words to the press. Other Buddhist monks and nuns followed Quang Duc’s example: six burned themselves to death within a short period. Unimpressed, Madame Nhu, Diem’s sister-in-law, described these self-immolations as a “barbecue.”
I wouldn’t say it changed nothing. It did help the CIA decide to get rid of Diem.
Wow. I don’t know whether your view of the CIA is too high, or too low. You really believe that foreign policy was driven by a few guys who chose to burn themselves to death? That’s cute.
It certainly didn’t hurt when they were already disaffected with Diem. And if you think that the CIA had nothing to do with it, that’s even cuter.
I remember those self-immolations and I believe you’re right. As bad as the Diems may have been, though, they kept South VietNam under control. Oddly, there have been no self-immolations to protest the communists.
“I’m so tired of barbecue. Why don’t we eat Chinese?”
They’ll make you sick.
Condolences from the tree-hugging community:
“Medium to well done, good and faithful servant.”
A bit over done if you ask me.
He had just received news that Musk was taking over Twitter.
Planned Martyrhood. Self-abortion for social, redistributive, clinical, and fair weather causes (e.g. climate stasis).
“This act is not suicide”. Yes. Yes, it is. His friends will want to paint it as some noble sacrifice. It was not. It was an irrational act. And yes, it was suicide.
may he serve as a bright, shining example to climate activists everywhere of the best way to help Mother Earth. The planet is already a better place since this nut offed himself.
Doesn’t anyone care about the air polution (and increased atmospheric temperatures) caused by the fire?
Why the medevac? This wasn’t an accident. He wanted this; he chose it. So why interfere?
Mr. Milhouse: I understand the sentiment, but cruelty is not a trait to which normal folks ascribe.
Burning to death is a particularly horrific end of life. Under the supposed conditions of this incident (deceit, ideologically driven motives and use of surrogate victims), shouldn’t the leaders, cheerleaders and indoctrinating authors of such actions show the “way?”
The idea that “lesser” members of the climate cult should kill themselves in place of their “betters” is repugnant.
“…but cruelty is not a trait to which normal folks ascribe.”
Nothing cruel about Milhouse’s sentiment. The fool set himself on fire, on purpose. I’d let him burn. His choice, not mine, not Milhouse’s.
It’s not cruelty to let someone make a 100% free choice.
If you are not free to make mistakes, even fatal ones, you are not free.
Because a medevac is a better visual than cleaning up the scene with a bucket of bleach, a stiff broom, and a firehose afterwards.
Shouldn’t he have electrocuted himself???
“’This act is not suicide,” Dr. Kritee wrote on Twitter early Sunday morning. ‘This is a deeply fearless’act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis.’”
Cheers. Here’s to more environazis making more “fearless act(s) of compassion.”
“The significance of his self immolation will be insignificant with the passage of time. ( and he had no real significance to begin with)”
I realize as a Christian I’m supposed to care. OK, I’ll toss in a prayer for his soul later. I’m just not feeling it. But I dispute the fact that his self-immolation will ultimately prove insignificant. Remember Timothy Treadwell, the brown bear “enthusiast” who didn’t thing those “big party animals” were dangerous?
https://www.bizarrepedia.com/timothy-treadwell/
“Timothy and Amie: Final Cries of Couple Killed by Bear”
I used to spend quite a bit of time in Alaska hunting Blacktail deer on Kodiak and Caribou on the tundra northeast of Dillingham.
How the hell you decide the world’s largest land carnivore is nothing more than a big party animal is beyond me. Bears scare the bejeesus out of me. Even the lousy little Black Bears we had in Kali. But a Griz whose head won’t fit into a 55 gallon drum? I don’t get within a hundred miles without serious artillery. Which is why my rifle of choice for hunting those 120 pound deer was a .338 Win Mag.
Anyhoo, Timothy Treadwell’s death was significant for the jokes it generated.
“Hey, Tim, remember when your dad told you that you’d never amount to sh*t? Well, that bear that ate you sure proved your dad wrong.”
I can see it now. Greta Thunberg glaring at me; “How dare you!” It’s after 4 p.m. It’s Happy Hour. I’d be even happier if more environazis followed Wynn Bruce’s example and shuffled off this mortal coil and left the rest of us alone.
Of course I know I’m awful. I’ll say an extra Lord’s Prayer for the sh*tbird.
You are absolved of your sins. Go in peace.
“The sounds recorded on the video camera were of Amie and Timothy screaming, yelling, and begging for their lives while they were being mauled to death by the large grizzly.”
Unlike Smokey, Winnie, or Yogi, this bear simply didn’t seem to understand their begging.
What are the chances?
What were their chances? Zero. I’m not exactly Daniel Boone or Pocahantas. But I can track a hippo through a snowbank. And, damn, you come across a torn up piece of ground where there once used to be a bear. And using the one for one rule (one inch front pad width equals one foot) the smaller bear was a 9 footer.
You’ve got to marvel at the size and ferocity of the bear that won that fight.
I said there used to be a bear? My bad. There still is. Maybe. That was a few years ago.
Which is why I hunt with a 375 H&H. A neighbor of mine quit guiding for REI because the clientele were constantly disregarding basic safety rules in the bush. The last straw was a group from Marin near SF.
It was funny. Just the other day I passed on a 4×4. I was tempted, but then it struck me. Four wheel drive means you get stuck in worse places. You should have seen the hate filled looks I got packing out my deer in my Mustang. Maybe you’d be surprised the spots you can get to in a Mustang with V8 torque and posi.
You should have seen the spots we accessed with my “hunting uncle” and his straight six, three on the tree, 2wd C10. I am officially 70% disabled for the rest of my life. I read about a guy who starved to death only 1/4 mile from the snow line. I realize you’re more likely to survive if you stick with the vehicle. But, really, let’s stick some sanity in here. After a month take a walk down the hill.
I don’t want to be that guy.
I applaud your choice of rifles, sir. You can’t go wrong with a .375 H&H. In fact, I killed my first elephant (If it matters it was a Problem Animal Control [PAC] hunt in Zimbabwe back in 2009) A Kimber Talkeetna.
https://www.collectorsfirearms.com/products/145802-145802-kimber-8400-talkeetna-375-hh-magnum-r28216.html
I’ve been reminiscing because the way the Biden administration is shaping up I may once again need to feed myself with my rifle. Except now it won’t be elephants.
You ever have something entirely 100% clear in your head and then you see it in writing and it’s like, “Holy mother of God??!!”
Sweet Sister Josephine!
The rule of thumb is stay in 2 wheel drive until you get stuck. A guy took his new 4×4 outside of Anchorage…. got to a swampy area… his wife said “you won’t be able to make it”… it took two tow trucks to pull him out. I used the 375 (Win 70) for plains game and a 458 Lott (CZ) for the Cape. The Lott saved my bacon with a one shot drop…. it gets messy as you know when one has to “sort out” a mistake. No mistake.. no regrets. Use enough gun.
I blame Al Gore, the award-winning climate expert, for convincing him that the weather’s too hot.
The eco-terrorists will be condemning his actions once they realize the amount of pollution he caused by his burning and the CO2 emissions of the helicopter used to try and rescue this fool.
No, that’s the wonderful part. They’ll never realize it. I recall when I was in college. There’s a saying that if you’re not a socialist when you’re young you don’t have a heart, and if you’re not a conservative when you’re older you don’t have a brain.
I never saw the logic that denied me a brain when I was younger.
So, I’d saw my peers march off to war against “Big Oil” (TM).
With inflatable boats made from petrochemicals. With hard hats and life vests made from petrochemicals. And they weren’t rowing, so throw in the outboard motor. And they drove to the protest in an Oldsmobile 88.
What else could I do but point and laugh?
https://innovativewealth.com/inflation-monitor/what-products-made-from-petroleum-outside-of-gasoline/#:~:text=Here%20is%20a%20partial%20list%20of%20products%20made,%20%20Perfumes%20%2031%20more%20rows%20
He was lighting his farts after watching Kimmel on the man show
He was very, very lucky to die after just one day. Some people live as long as six months before succumbing. And, really, if you set yourself on fire, you shouldn’t be surprised if you die. I do wonder about his “head injuries,” though. I hope he wasn’t taken advantage of by his zealot friends. The lady Buddhist priest doesn’t sound like much of a friend.
Fun Fact: Burning to death doesn’t hurt very much. Third degree burns destroy the nerve endings, ending the pain. It’s when those nerve endings start healing that the misery begins.
I knew someone who got third-degree burns on both hands in an accident, and didn’t even notice until the firefighter saw the skin coming off like gloves. Years after the accident, just talking about the rehab made him cry.
I watched a doc on burn treatment, and this pretty much gels with what was presented. And what we all know from being severely injured, it doesn’t hurt right that minute, only after the adrenaline subsides and the healing begins. One thing that struck me about the treatment of serious burns was the constant cleansing of the area; I get that the goal is to minimize infection, but all that seemed to do was undo the healing that was taking place over the nerve endings and causing excruciating pain for no real reason. It was actually quite fascinating because they showed this one treatment for severe burns that used maggots to eat up the damaged necrotic flesh while leaving the nerve endings alone. As gross as that is (and it is gross to see), it seems a better approach than rubbing away any protective material that manages to form over raw nerve endings, essentially slowing the healing process.
I’m obviously not a physician and have zero background in science or medicine, so I’m just saying what I saw on that doc.
It’s called debridement, Fuzzy.
“Debridement is the medical removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.[2][3] Removal may be surgical, mechanical, chemical, autolytic (self-digestion), and by maggot therapy.”
They’re not trying to slow the healing process. They’re trying to hurry it along. I’m not a doctor either. But I’ve been through a number of first aid courses and I have a first aid kit that will put most third world hospitals to shame.
Do you imagine that when I’m forced to depend on my own devices, I like to have devices? Do you imagine that if I’m given time to plan ahead I won’t?
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Oooh, good stuff! I didn’t think they were TRYING to slow the healing process, that just seemed to be the result of the daily scrubbing of the burned flesh. The icky and totally gross maggot thing seemed the best (least painful) option since the maggots only eat unhealthy, bad, dead stuff.
You kind of lost me with this part, “Do you imagine that when I’m forced to depend on my own devices, I like to have devices? Do you imagine that if I’m given time to plan ahead I won’t?,” but I’m sure you must have meant something by it. I can’t really venture a guess as to what that means or what you are asking in this context.
I rotated through two burn units…. one at King County and one at San Bernardino County . It’s a long haul. Silver based meds are your dearest friend and hopefully enough unburned skin to harvest grafts. Maggots and leeches are time tested.
Fuzzy, breaking up and removing the eschar from burns is partially to prevent thick scarring which can contract and tighten skin, muscles and tendons preventing their normal movement and/or causing deformation. It also helps prevent raised, leathery appearing scars.
That’ll buff out….
Yes, he was. I grew up in the late stages of the Vietnam War. My dad was a Coastie.
I don’t wish what I say on my worst enemy. But I’m glad I saw it.
Saw.
“Video of Rescued Mini-Horse Cuddling Teddy Bear in Place of His Mom Makes Us Cry”
In one headline, everything wrong with modern America is summed up.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/video-of-rescued-mini-horse-cuddling-teddy-bear-in-place-of-his-mom-makes-us-cry/ar-AAWtRFg?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3158dddbb0c94515b68f3cc826ff0059
Do you know how badly I want to feed that writer my elbow?
Instead of cursing the darkness, he lit a candle (which was him).
ANOTHER ah dim ding bats learns, ya jis cants inhale FAR, its hot and no ox-y-gin. bes lesson ta-day, YA JIS CANTS FIX STUPID!
This is what worshippers of false religions have been doing since Biblical times
Another Darwin Award nominee. How ironic that a Climate Activist would be leaving a Carbon Footprint on the SCOTUS steps. Now if we could encourage more of those Eco-morons in CONgress to torch themselves, we might get our Energy Independence back,