FELO DE SE, one who murders himself, i.e., a suicide. The technical conditions of murder with one exception apply to this crime. Thus, although an attempt to commit suicide is a misde meanor at English common law, aiding or inciting to suicide is the felony of murder. So also is the so-called suicide pact. Formerly a suicide was buried on the highway, with a stake driven through the body. This was abolished by an act of 1823, which ordered the burial of the body of a person found to be f elo de se within 24 hours after the coroner's inquest, between the hours of 9 and 12 at night, and without Christian rites of sepulture. This act was again superseded in 1882 by the Interments (Felo de se) Act, which permits the interment of any f elo de se in the church yard or other burial ground of the parish or place in which by the law or custom of England he might have been interred but for the verdict. The interment is carried out in accordance with the Burial Laws Amendment Act 188o (see BURIAL).