A 19-year-old high school student set himself on fire near a high school in Râmnicu Vâlcea on Tuesday morning, after losing 3,000 lei (about 650 USD) at a nearby gambling hall. Despite firefighters extinguishing the flames, the young man died. He had bought 1.5 liters of gasoline from a gas station and set himself on fire in front of the school.
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People who kill themselves with fire must want suffer before death, perhaps as a form of punishment. Plenty of bridges and tall buildings around to jump from for a quick death but they choose a slow agonizing death.
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