I've heard of a group of people who used to commit suicide by hugging nuclear devices as they went off so that their soul, which they believed to be an electromagnetic presence of sorts, would be annihilated by the energies within. And that's about as seriously as we probably need to take that.

[Alia really, really doesn't want to admit that there's anything to magic.]

Very likely her victims, though I doubt that she got much off of Tenten. Her skin was... recycled for Setsuna's bindings and what little fatty deposits she had on her chest didn't seem to be missing.

I can't think of a faster way to strip away what little dignity the Church deserves than to give their ghost botherers an online review page.