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Current Talk '13 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0427
« on: April 06, 2013, 11:09:44 PM »
Thanks, DL.
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Actually made little outfits for them.
... Daniel is coming! Daniel is coming!!"
Suicide actually was illegal in a lot of places, especially those with theocratic tendences. I'm sure it was illegal in Britain. I don't know about Maine, but since it was originally a British colony a lot of the laws would have been similar or the same. The rationale for criminalizing it was that in taking your own life, you were sinning against the Creator himself, who alone has the power of life and death and who was the source (it was believed) of all government power--remember all those divine right rulers. If you survived a suicide attempt, you would go to prison.
The burial upside down at a crossroads was to make sure your soul wouldn't somehow find its way to heaven.