Talk:Vampire/@comment-5961531-20140704022022/@comment-66.87.105.154-20140704160855

You don't really know that Carlisle didn't try to kill himself by fire... Edward said that he didn't even know the number of ways Carlisle tried to kill himself. He just mentions jumping from great heights, drowning, and starving. Vampires are flammable, but not as greatly as you make them out to be, especially in the books. Like for example in Bree Tanner, Riley threatens to slowly burn off someone's ears, fingers, and other appendages if they kill another newborn. Wouldn't they burst up in flames if they were as flammable as you think and this happened? I just think that if a vampire did try to kill himself by fire, the pain would be too great and he would put it out quickly... In the movies, vampires like Victoria and Irina did burst into flames when lit on fire, but this didn't happen in the books. It took a lot longer to catch, and for Victoria, Edward and Seth even gathered a lot of dry pine needles and sticks to put over their remains do they would catch