Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?
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During the debate, parliamentary speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar referred to Mr Khedhri's self-immolation.
In other cases, self-immolation has been more clearly linked to religious belief.
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Anargol says she had committed self-immolation after arguing with her husband.
In Buddhism, the subject of self-immolation is controversial, said Robert Sharf, the chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
With Mr Switon threatening self-immolation on one side and the world's Jewish community looking on from the other, the Polish church faces a moment of truth.
Then the self-immolation by Tunisian street vendor who had his vegetable cart confiscated by the government sparked a national uprising of all the others who were frustrated.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, also a secure-looking despot, fled Tunis for the relative safety of Saudi Arabia on January 14, 29 days after the act of self-immolation.
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The tragic death of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, by self-immolation, brought about a grassroots political movement among Tunisians that effectively overthrew the country's authoritarian ruler, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
Understandably, many Republicans fear that a tough primary campaign will weaken their eventual nominee while the Administration is finding it hard to hide how much it has enjoyed the spectacle of Republican self-immolation.
Just along the corridor from where Hosni's terrible throat injuries were being dressed - many victims of self-immolation suffer agonising lung and internal chest injuries - another victim had been brought in and was fighting for his life.
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