moish – because it looks less like a thingie in parenthesis when it is backwards (: 🙂
areivim, the punishment varied by society. Some dragged the body around and gave a disgraceful burial. Others penalized the relatives, by seizing assets of the deceased.
In Halacha, a suicide is considered worse than a murderer because there is no possibility of teshuva. A murderer may have regretted the deed for a moment before he died. A suicide can’t really do that.