He did not buy the gas, someone else went to get it and it turned out to be gas. So, he did not do it. A tragic mistake occurred. I pray and hope that none of you who happen to have less than the compassion of a "rock", have something like this happen to you.

People are awfully quick to judge. I know a family member of this gentleman. What started out as a favor from someone who went to get Kerosene for him, turned into a targedy all from a simple mistake. All of you with your negative and cynical, crass comments should be ashamed. This family is going through a tragedy. They need prayers and support not critiscism.

Agreed this gentleman made a poor choice, but was he cold? Was his family cold? Was gasoline all he had? Most of ya'll are sitting comfortably in your centrally heated glass houses throwing rocks at a man with 2nd & 3rd degree burns over 50% or more of his body. Have some compassion. I'm sure his first thought wasn't how much he wanted to see the debriedment room at the Burn Center in Chapel Hill when he was doing this. If, as another poster has mentioned, this gentleman has passed from his burns, may he rest in peace. If you've ever seen anyone suffer sever burns you'll have compassion no matter how they were burned.

Another local news station is reporting this man died.

I have no compassion for stupidity. There are some things that are either so obvious, or should have been learned at such an early age, that those who commit them have absolutely no excuse. None.

But because we are populated with so many folks who have the IQ of rocks, we now have warning labels all over everything, insurance prices have gone through the roof, and the courts are clogged with frivilous lawsuits -- the dispositions of which we all pay for in higher prices when those same low IQ judges and juries accept idiocy as a justification for damage awards.