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The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice Audio description of the memorial by Sir Nicholas Kenyon. The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice is a public monument in Postman's Park in the City of London, commemorating ordinary people who died saving the lives of others and who might otherwise have been forgotten. [1]
Self-sacrifice [1] is the giving up of something that a person wants for themselves so that others can be helped or protected or so that other external values can be advanced or protected. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Generally, the act of self-sacrifice conforms to the rule that it does not serve the person’s best self-interest and will leave the person in a ...
Pages in category "People who have sacrificed their lives to save others" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Altruistic suicide is the sacrifice of one's life in order to save or benefit others, for the good of the group, or to preserve the traditions and honor of a society. It is always intentional. Benevolent suicide refers to the self-sacrifice of one's own life for the sake of the greater good. [1]
Falling on a grenade is the deliberate act of using one's body to cover a live time-fused hand grenade, absorbing the explosion and fragmentation in an effort to save the lives of others nearby. Since this is almost universally fatal, it is considered an especially conspicuous and selfless act of individual sacrifice in wartime.
Jean-Pierre Aulneau, Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye, and 19 other voyageurs, 1736; Vicente Liem de la Paz, 1773; Luís Jayme, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1775; Cosmas of Aetolia, 1779; Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1781; Martyrs of Compiegne, 1794; Andrés Quintana, Spanish missionary to Alta California, 1812
Raid on and arrest of members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran: Self-immolated in front of the French embassy in London. Died at the scene. There were at least 4 other self-immolations protesting the same. [105] July 21, 2004: Mordehai (Hamimo) Cohen: 30 Israel: Rejection of work license: Self-immolated during a City Hall assembly. [106 ...
The Greeks identified Imhotep with their own divine healer and physician, Asclepios (which also healed people in their dreams). [15] Queen Dido of Carthage: 814 BCE Founder and first queen of Carthage, after her death, she was deified by her people with the name of Tanit and assimilated to the Great Goddess Astarte (Roman Juno). [16]