Suicide/Christianity

Betty Corrigal's grave. A sad tale of an unmarried pregnant girl who committed suicide and was forbidden to be buried in consecrated ground. She was interred in an unmarked grave on a lonely moor. Long afterwards a retired customs officer erected a memorial to her at his own expense. 18 June 1995.


Detail of the wall painting showing the suicide of Judas. St. Nicetas Church. Banjani, Macedonia. XIV c.