Een 'ernstig kwaad' of een 'geoorloofde daad'?: Het taboe op zelfmoord rond 1900

Ben de Pater

Een 'ernstig kwaad' of een 'geoorloofde daad'? Het taboe op zelfmoord rond 1900

Translated title of the contribution: Suicide in the Netherlands around 1900: a contested taboo

Ben de Pater

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The increasing number of suicides in 'civilised' Europe during the last decades of the nineteenth century attracted the attention on many precarious social scientists: Masaryk, Morselli, Durkheim. It was a hot issue in the Netherlands as well. Was suicide permitted? Has the individual the right to commit suicide? Always? Never? Did mitigating circumstances exist? Was one allowed to speak about suicide, or was silence the norm? The chapter analyses the opinions of socialists, liberals, Roman-Catholics and (orthodox) Portestants in response to a case-study: the suicide of the feminist-socialist author Cornélie Huygens in 1902. For Christians suicide was a taboo, an immoral act. In the more secularized 'pillars'of liberalism and socialism suicide was more or less accepted - the individual was the master of his/her own life.

Translated title of the contribution	Suicide in the Netherlands around 1900: a contested taboo
Original language	Dutch
Title of host publication	Onnoemelijke dingen
Subtitle of host publication	Over taboe en verbod in het fin de siècle
Editors	Anne van Buul, Ben de Pater, Tom Sintobin, Hans Vandevoorde
Place of Publication	Hilversum
Publisher	Uitgeverij Verloren
Pages	113-127
Number of pages	14
Volume	Rythmus. Jaarboek voor de studie van het fin de siècle
Edition	3
ISBN (Print)	978 90 8704 474 9
Publication status	Published - 30 Sept 2014

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Een 'ernstig kwaad' of een 'geoorloofde daad'? Het taboe op zelfmoord rond 1900

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