Suicide by Proxy - JSTOR Daily
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In early Modern Europe, suicide was a sin to be punished with eternal damnation. Some women found an awful workaround: committing murder.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/Saymoran on 2024-11-04 15:19:02+00:00.

Original Title: 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