David Buckel

NY Times: What Endures After a Climate Activist’s Suicide: Grief, Anger and Hope - Five years ago, David Buckel violently ended his life in a public park in Brooklyn. People who knew him were shocked and angry. Yet they refused to give up. By John Leland

“My early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves,” he wrote. “Here is a hope that giving a life might bring some attention to the need for expanded action, and help others give a voice to our home, and Earth is heard.”

He was 60 years old.