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    Question #66149. darkpresence asks:

    What is or was the Asian Indian custom of widow suicide called?




    smeogalla

    suttee.

    May 24 06, 9:12 PM
    NathaNsc

    also known as sati. sati actually came up with more google results than suttee, but both are correct.

    May 24 06, 9:48 PM
    zbeckabee

    Sati or Suttee.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suttee

    May 24 06, 9:48 PM
    vinodvhere

    Sati.
    It was legally abolished decades back. This was the practice by which a widow jumps (often forcefully) to the funeral pyre of her husband and gives up her life. However, there are isolated incidents of similiar nature reported from some remote rural areas of India even now; but they are too few for Sati to be still considered as existing

    May 25 06, 12:11 AM
    bloomsby

    According to some reports sati is returning with the rise of Hindu extremism ("fundamentalism").

    http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=74755

    May 25 06, 5:52 PM
    Baloo55th

    Abolition was because of strong suspicions of the involuntary nature of many of the 'suicides'. Suttee was the old British spelling, from the pronunciation of sati.

    May 26 06, 2:08 PM
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