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Titel: Avliden i förgiftning, begravd i tysthet.
Skrivet av: Hans Högman skrivet 2005-01-18, 12:43
I guess that ”begrav i tysthet” meant that it was a quite funeral with only the closest family present.
People that had committed suicide weren't allowed to be buried at the church cemetery. Instead they were to be buried by the “bödel” (hangman) somewhere else. If the suicide was committed due to mental derangement, someone other than the hangman was allowed to bury the dead, however not at the church cementry. From 1864 the church agreed bury people at the cementry even if they had committed suicide, but the ceremony had to be i stillhet (quite). From 1894 this type of burials could be performed as any burials. Source: Nationalencyklopedin. Hans Högman