[mass55th]

"I'm no expert, but don't Catholics have some specific concerns about suicide and where a person who has committed suicide can be buried?"

I know in the olden days, a suicide could not be buried in a church cemetery. They could only be buried in unhallowed ground. I don't know how the church deals with it today. Maybe someone else knows.

[William Tell]

From http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=2279:

Further, Christian burial is to be refused to suicides (this prohibition is as old as the fourth century; cf. Cassian in P.L., XL, 573) except in case that the act was committed when they were of unsound mind or unless they showed signs of repentance before death occurred.

I just did a quick search and can't comment on whether that is present church doctrine.

It's interesting to contemplate that the unusual circumstances of the lady's fingers might constitute a "sign of repentance". It was certainly a sad way to end one's life.