First time I have ever heard of anyone being refused a Christian burial because they had tuberculosis. Surely the reason for the site of her burial must have been suicide. David A forgotten grave in Mussoorie The grave, amidst the thick oak forest of Landour cantonment, belongs to Caroline Moore, who could not find a place in the graveyard due to taboos associated with medieval English beliefs. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090130/dplus1.htm --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

What a sad story about poor Caroline - I suspect that the word "Either" probably should have been quote " Neither of the reasons was an excuse at that time for a formal burial in the graveyard.<end quote> I remember a friend of my mother's coming to stay with us after being in hospital in Christchurch NZ back in the late 1950s. The lady had been a patient in a Sanatorium for some time as she suffered from TB. We were given strict instructions that her cutlery, dinner plates, and drinking vessels had to be sterilised after use and then set aside for her use only. Switch that to a previous age in Asia and that lady would have been considered 'unclean' and no doubt shunned because of her illness. Given the other sad event in her life - the inability to give her husband an heir - I can see how the poor Caroline would have been devastated - and felt there was no other way out but to take her own life. I also recall that not too many years ago a person committing suicide would have had an unmarked grave as it was a sin in the eyes of the church to take this action. Thankfully we are now a lot more enlightened. Cheers Ainslie.