To be or not to be

Since March 2011 more than 50 Tibetan monks, citizens and activist have self-Immolated in protest to Chinese oppression of civil liberties in Tibet.
They have do it again in China.
According to Tibetan source three Tibetan monks from Ngoshul monastery burned themselves in Ngaba, Sichuan around 3pm at local time today.
Sources with contacts in the area report heavy presence of security and severe restrictions around Gomang and Ngoshul monastery. Ngoshul monastery, located about 12 kilometers from Ngaba county, has about 130 monks.
One of them Dorji, 15, is known to have died at the scene of the protest and the other two have been admitted to a hospital in Ngaba.

We may try to convince ourselves that by sacrificing oneself for a cause greater than ourselves we are in fact shining a light on the injustice, but we are in fact distracting from that which is without condition - like some bloggers said.
I think so that person who has made self-immolation, would not like to see himself in his next life.

Whether it is self-immolation through burning oneself or whether it is a person who decides to blow oneself up, the act does nothing but to place a light squarely on oneself.

One said, it is the ego, which seeks to be known that receives attention.
But if we close our eyes, it is not an egocentric action?

Self-immolation has a long history in Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism.

Though Tibetan Buddhism states that violence towards oneself is prohibited it is tolerated in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and in the 23rd chapter of the Lotus Sutra, which recounts the self-immolation of the Medicine King.
Self-Immolation refers to the act of setting oneself on fire for the purpose of political protest, martyrdom or suicide.

The act became well documented in the West during the Vietnam war (1955-1975) With television sets beaming protests in South Vietnam where Tibetan Monks were recorded setting themselves on fire in protest to the oppressive Roman Catholic regime of Ngo Dinh Diem.

The most famous of which Thich Quang Durc prompted international outrage and the widespread condemnation of the American occupation.

While the Chinese authorities blame the exiled Dalai Lama for inciting individuals to commit the act so to further highlight his political agenda in the West, The Dalai Lama self has been quoted as saying he does not support or agree with self-immolation but he does admire the courage of those who commit self-Immolation.

I too.