He even infers that performing a traditional service would “profane the service of the dead… of souls at peace.” (Vi219-221). Most religious doctrines believe that suicide is equated with murder, even defining it as "self-murder" or "unrepentable". At the time, Catholics refused to give mass and a proper Christian burial to the suicide victims. Jewish doctrine still believes today that a person who commits suicide cannot be buried in a Jewish cemetery. Most Protestants then and many today believe that the person openly rejects salvation and eternity in Heaven by committing suicide and thus condemning himself to