TIL that in middle ages suicidal people feared eternal damnation that direct suicide entailed, so they would commit a capital crime over innocent child and then turn themselves in to authorities and demand capital punishment
https://daily.jstor.org/suicide-by-proxy/
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Suicide by Proxy - JSTOR Daily
In early Modern Europe, suicide was a sin to be punished with eternal damnation. Some women found an awful workaround: committing murder.The Editors (JSTOR Daily)
