Well, strictly speaking, you cannot die from committing a sin.Which begs the question, why are they called the 7 Deadly Sins?
My hypothesis leads to the subject of the Medieval Ages.
Where men were men and women were also men in many respects, there, sins were oft. a punishable and an offense that was displayed through public dismay.
A top notch example of such, as mentioned above is the legend, William Wallace.
Most of this civilized world will know the character as Braveheart (Mel Gibson) yet the true story has a hectic storyline with his gruesome death.
Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall, stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while he was still alive, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, castrated, then cut into four parts. His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike atop London Bridge.[17] It was later joined by the heads of the brothers, John and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Stirling, and Aberdeen. A more gruesome punishment i do not know, yet it begs the question, if his death was a justifiable cause, what should be our fate to a sin of such greater meaning than treason?
