Wednesday, February 20, 2019

halacha - Why do mourning practices surrounding suicide differ from Shulchan Aruch?


It used to be that a person who committed suicide was buried in a separate part of the cemetery and the relatives did not sit shiva (see Shulchan Aruch YD 345). We no longer do these things and we treat a suicide as a regular death. On what basis is this done?




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