Word: forasmuch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expected to be approved by the church assembly and Parliament within a year-recommends that an alternative burial service be read over all suicides, to avoid subjective judgment on whether or not they were sinful. Two key phrases would be left out of the suicide burial service. One is, "forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed." The other is, "in sure and certain hope of resurrection" -on grounds that a suicide is by definition incapable of earthly repentance...
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