Immolation (Latin immolare "to sacrifice", originally "to sprinkle with sacrificial meal", English since the 16th c.) may refer to:

• Fire sacrifice
  • Animal sacrifice
  • Human sacrifice
  • Hecatomb
  • Holocaust (sacrifice)
• Cremation
• Sati is a Hindu funeral custom involving immolation.
• Self-immolation is suicide by immolation, notably as an extreme form of protest.
  • Jauhar was the voluntary death (on a funeral pyre) of royal womenfolk of defeated Rajput castles to escape rape by their conquerors.

In popular culture:

• Immolation (band) is a death metal band from New York.
• Immolation is a spell of a Night Elf hero, the Demon Hunter, in the Blizzard computer game WarCraft III.
• Near the end of Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker is burned alive after a duel with his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi. The track playing during this scene is called The Immolation Scene, to reflect the burning of Anakin's body after sacrificing all to become a Sith.

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