Facts From the History of the Church: Suicide

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In 16th and 17th century Spanish Netherlands, ‘the bodies of suicides who had been found guilty were pulled from their houses, dragged through the streets, hung from gibbets, and denied burial in hallowed ground’.  – Sonja Deschrijver

4 Responses to Facts From the History of the Church: Suicide

  2. it’s copiously annotated- in an essay in the current number of ‘the sixteenth century journal’

  3. Thanks Jim. That’s a journal I can access over here. Quite interesting, although I pity the poor people. No one who is desperate enough to kill himself, deserves an additional humiliation, even post mortem.