| In Uzbekistan, government records show that 17 of the 205 suicides in the first half of 2002 involved self-immolation by women. |
| Demonstrations, self-immolation, and an active underground press became the primary means of resistance. |
| Men can carp on until the only way out appears to be an act of self-immolation or some other equally interesting sacrifice. |
| In higher-income countries, self-immolation was rare and most often carried out by males, many of whom had a psychiatric history. |
| The number of recorded suicides, especially self-immolation, has shot up among young women. |
| The death by self-immolation of a 19-year-old student in Prague in protest against conditions in the Czech Republic has shaken that country. |
