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Opposing views on the act of suicide in Death and the Kings Horseman
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Opposing Views on the Act of Suicide as Seen in Death and the King's Horseman By Wole Soyinka Western cultures, influenced by the Judeo-Christian belief that self-murder is a grave and mortal sin, regard all forms of suicide as shameful and wrong. Historically, suicide has been treated as a criminal offence, and a failed attempt to commit suicide has ironically been punishable by death in many parts of the western world. In accordance with the Catholic Church, King Louis XIV issued a criminal ordinance in which an individual who attempted to kill him or herself was hanged, and the dead body was drawn through the streets then thrown atop a garbage heap as a burial. Under British criminal law, the act of suicide was a punishable crime until the Suicide Act of 1961. Although a failed attempt to take one's own life is no longer...
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