Immolation

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Image:Large bonfire.jpg Immolation means a sacrificial killing by burning, such as:

• Animal sacrifice
• Human sacrifice
  • Sati is a Hindu funeral custom involving immolation.
• Self-immolation is suicide by immolation, notably as an extreme form of protest.
  • Jauhar was the voluntary death (on a funeral pyre) of royal womenfolk of defeated Rajput castles to escape rape by their conquerors.

Immolation in culture:

• Immolation is a death metal band from New York.

See also

• Suicide
• Mass suicide
• Hecatomb

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