Self-immolation

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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-immolation":
     altruism, blazing, blistering, branding, burning, burnt offering,
     calcination, car of Jagannath, carbonization, cauterization,
     cautery, cineration, collection, combustion, commitment,
     concremation, consecration, cracking, cremation, cupellation,
     dedication, deflagration, destructive distillation, devotion,


     disembowelment, disinterest, disinterestedness, distillation,
     distilling, drink offering, ex voto offering, felo-de-se, flaming,
     hara-kiri, heave offering, hecatomb, holocaust, human sacrifice,
     humility, immolation, incense, incineration, infanticide, libation,
     mactation, mass suicide, modesty, oblation, offering, offertory,
     oxidation, oxidization, parching, peace offering,
     piacular offering, pyrolysis, refining, ritual suicide,
     sacramental offering, sacrifice, scapegoat, scorching,
     scorification, searing, self-abasement, self-abnegation,
     self-denial, self-destruction, self-devotion, self-effacement,
     self-forgetfulness, self-murder, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness,
     self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection, selflessness,
     seppuku, singeing, smelting, suicide, suttee, sutteeism,
     thank offering, the stake, thermogenesis, unacquisitiveness,
     unpossessiveness, unselfishness, vesication, votive offering,
     whole offering