[net.suicide] Suicide/Insanity

presley (06/21/82)

I seem to recall a Quincy episode in which a man committed suicide.
The widow was afraid that he was damned forever.  However, a rabbi
explained to her that a man with a family and kids who would commit
suicide had to be insane and could not be held accountable for
his actions.  [Was my recollection correct?]

	-- Joe Presley (mhuxt!presley) BTL Murray Hill --

sjb (06/22/82)

Practically correct (hate to be picky...)  The rabbi explained
to the good Doctor Quincy (who wanted to say the man was insane,
(so he could be buried in holy ground) but wouldn't since he
couldn't prove it) that any man who would kill himself and
make his family suffer must be insane.