Opinion: My mother set herself on fire. Why do people choose to self-immolate?
Don't dismiss these horrifying acts as 'crazy,' because they're rarely so simple. There was a cultural context when my mother did it in 1971, just as there is today.
Don't dismiss these horrifying acts as 'crazy,' because they're rarely so simple. There was a cultural context when my mother did it in 1971, just as there is today.