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    Past attitudes towards suicides or attempted suicides was very condemning.
    Here is a report in 1788 of a typical burial of a suicide victim:

    "On Wednesday morning last Elizabeth SIBERT was found hanging in a chamber of the house of Stephen COLLARD of Faversham and on Thursday morning the Coroner's Inquest sat on the body and there being no evidence of insanity they gave their verdict "Felo-de-Se".
    The same evening she was buried in the High Road at St Ann's Cross, with an ashen stake drove through her body. She was buried in the horse-road and not on either side, without any coffin, sewd up in an old blanket."
    (Kentish Gazette May 16-20 1788 back page col.3, "Canterbury" column)

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