Let me see if I've got this straight.

[conuly]

The wildfires are in Hawaii.

The hurricane is in California.

The tornadoes were in New England.

Is that about the size of it?

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[oursin]

At least the Greek philospher Empedocles (reputedly) deliberately threw himself into the caldera.

[conuly]

You gotta die for your art, I guess.

[oursin]

Going out with a bang...

[redbird]

Pliny appears to have been the first in a long line of volcanologists to die in an eruption.