Suicide by Proxy in Early Modern Germany (3, 2023) | Kathy Stuart

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Suicide by Proxy became a major societal problem after 1650. Suicidal people committed capital crimes with the explicit goal of earning their executions, as a short-cut to their salvation. Desiring to die repentantly at the hands of divinely-instituted go…