India - Priests with the Catholic Church in India will now perform burial services for "non-scandalous" suicide deaths, which are now viewed by the Church as being committed as a result of chronic mental illness, depression or sudden emotional outburst. Life is God's property and to destroy it is to assert dominion over what is God's according to the Church.
Previously, the body was only allowed to the main gate of the church for prayers before interment. There would be no religious rite at the burial. Babu Joseph, the spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops Conference of India pronounced, "If the priest wants to give a simple burial, he will be allowed to, provided it is not a scandalous suicide."
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