My Wife wants to Sati
I have been in poor health lately. It has been decided that when the proper time comes my wife should do the noble thing by sati. This is the honorable course.
At what exact moment should the sati be done, she is anxious to know?
Or does it matter? Can she do it at any time?
My wife is 18 years younger than I. Does this matter?
Woman commits sati in UP village Hamirpur: In a shocking incident, a young woman ended her life by jumping into the funeral pyre of her husband in village Satpurwa in Mohaba district of Uttar Pradesh here, police said on Friday.
The woman, dressed in bridal finery, jumped into the pyre on Thursday in the presence of hundreds of villagers who raised slogans of "jai sati maiya". Police said the young woman had announced that she would end her life on her husband's funeral pyre.
People of adjoining areas flocked to the village, some 100-km from here, to witness the gruesome incident. Additional District Magistrate Mahoba Chintamani said the authorities were still ascertaining the facts and circumstances leading to the incident. The villagers refused to talk to reporters.
The above letter entitled "My Wife Wants to Sati" is a hoax but received more than thirty responses on the Indian newsgroups in 1997.
This was reposted in 2000, but by then everyone knew that this was a hoax. To read them:
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