What were peoples attitudes towards sucide in elizabethan times?

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The public office of Coroner was established to determine if someone had died of natural causes or committed suicide because, in the case of suicide, the persons possessions and property became the property of the CROWN, so suicide was considered an offense.

They where thought to be possessed by the devil