Immolate is to provide a life for the sake of a cause or divinity. Some religions include among their practices immolation. In the case of self-immolation , when using the verb, just give the pronominal form, without the prefix order: "A Buddhist monk immolated himself is ." Were the Vietnamese monks who put the word in vogue in the international press the 60 and 70, when sacrificed by fire to protest the American occupation. Probably because So now the word is used frequently (and incorrectly) to mean suicide by fire as in the following cable from UPI: "A woman doused his clothes with fire and blew himself because her husband would not let her watch TV" .
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