The study deals with the issue of the treatment of suicides bodies after the decriminalisation of suicide in the Habsburg Monarchy in 1850. Because, in spite of decriminalisation, canon law remained in force prohibiting suicides from resting in consecrated ground, there were frequent conflicts between the ecclesiastical and secular powers in which the local community was often actively engaged. The aim of the study is primarily to give a sense of these conflicts, using the example of Moravia, especially on the material basis of the rich documents preserved in the collections of the Bishop’s Consistory in Brno.