He even deduces that performing a traditional service “would desecrate the service of the dead…souls separated in peace”. (Vi219-221). Most religious doctrines believe that suicide is the same as murder, even calling it "self-murder" or "unrepentant." At the time, Catholics refused to provide a dignified Christian mass and burial for 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 categorically refuses salvation and eternity in Heaven by committing suicide and thus condemns himself to