A Question of Early Shang

disorders as outlined above. The same type of attitude seems to be taken with respect to suicide. In general the Ibo look upon suicide as an abomination. Therefore, the corpse of a person who thus ends his life is not given the reverence customarily granted to individuals who die a natural death. Since suicide is thus publicly disapproved, although nobody can do anything about it, it is regarded as an instance of mental disorder

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