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Did you know... that The History of Doing describes a fundamentalist Hindu protest, with many women part of it, in favour of
sati, the burning of widows?
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97198 (
talk) 12:44, 13 December 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment: I have quoted some sources inline. Earwigs copyvio detector catches these. Do please let me know if I have missed anything which isn't permissible.
That would be a mistake, from various points of view!
Johnbod (
talk) 22:31, 12 November 2019 (UTC)reply
Johnbod, the
sati article describes sati as - "in which a widow sacrifices herself by sitting atop her deceased husband's funeral pyre." Doesn't this make sense in relation to what it says on the
altruistic suicide page - "Altruistic suicide is sacrifice of one's life to save or benefit others, for the good of the group, or to preserve the traditions and honor of a society. It is always intentional."?
(I just want to add, I know very little about both "Sati" or "Altruistic suicide" so if the two terms are not connectable, whatever I wrote about rephrasing ALT0 can just be ignored.)
But I have a doubt now that in ALT0 "the burning of widows" could only be understood as that the widows are forcefully burnt on the pyre, which wasn't always the case, as far as I have understood sati from its article?
DiplomatTesterMan (
talk) 05:39, 13 November 2019 (UTC)reply
There is even a line on the
Altruistic suicide page: "Indian, Japanese, and other widows sometimes participate in an end of life ritual after the death of a husband..."
DiplomatTesterMan (
talk) 05:43, 13 November 2019 (UTC)reply
You are correct to have doubts!
Johnbod (
talk) 16:21, 13 November 2019 (UTC)reply
New enough, long enough, and thoroughly sourced. Earwig finds the marked quotes but no problematic copying. QPQ done. I much prefer ALT0 (as originally phrased, not the euphemistic suggested alternatives!) as it is shocking and hooky rather than technical and jargony (ALT1) or only mildly intriguing in its juxtaposition of unlikely countries (ALT2). Good to go with ALT0. —
David Eppstein (
talk) 01:53, 18 November 2019 (UTC)reply