Re: How do the Orlanthi feel about suicide?

From: Jeff <jakyer_at_...>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 19:59:25 -0000

> world. That's stealing from kin, and not something the Orlanthi
> would accept. There's no social sanction for it.

Hey, I call it kin-slaying and have things get worse from there...

> Now, suicidal attacks against superior forces, that's something
> wholly different. I don't think the Orlanthi would even associate
> such attacks with the word for suicide; they'd have some other word
> to describe it (perhaps something like "glorious" or "doomed.")
> Similarly, I believe there'd be some ritual condoning for people
who
> wandered off to die, so that the act does not actually
> become "suicide."
>
> Just my 2 clacks.
>
> Roland

Premeditated suicide. Sounds like something from a Terry Prachett novel (...actually, I think it is. Must check "Guards! Guards!"

Jeff