Is Suicide a Sin?

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@TallyMan

Have you ever walked into the ICU room to see your close friend strapped to life support?
Have you ever wondered if the pain that she felt was horrific or if any at all.
Have you ever looked into the eyes of someone you have admired and all you see is cold, lifeless beady eyes?
Do you know the feeling of one day talking to a close friend and the other day, getting a call that she is dead.
Do you know that experience?

I'm not talking out of my ass. Call me a dick, hell call me what you want. Ban me, hell I wont care.

I know that s**t. I know that s**t gets real, real quick.
I'm trying to not buy into the "Gloom and Doom" mentality that surrounds this thread.
I have conviction that every human life has purpose and meaning.
Suicide wastes that purpose and meaning. You do not need to lecture me on pain and suffering, I know it well.
My life has purpose and meaning, your mother's has purpose and meaning and even on her death bed.
Your life has meaning and purpose.

I'm not trying to be "Sweet" to anyone. I'm a nice guy, personally I don't like to be f****d with. I would like to expect the same from others.

I will say this as well, it was YOU who wrote that out of anger, not Jake.
YOU opened YOURSELF up to be confronted and offered a different position, not me.
Your letting those situations define who you are and you need it let it go.


Jake

Nothing is a sin.

I have several family members that committed suicide,I don't judge them,some things are intolerable.I have thought about it,it's not a sin.For me it would be a mistake, but for others the right choice.It's not a sin,it's a choice.Maybe right,maybe wrong,but a choice.

No it isn't a sin. It's tragic that anyone no longer sees value in their life. Suicide is what people do when they are at the end of what they can stand in life, be that due to physical pain, mental pain, one tiny little thing that tips the balance into them feeling nothing will ever be right again, etc.

I do feel sorry for their friends and family and can't imagine what they are left to face afterwards (that is, the ones who cared in the first place) but I believe that by the time one is suicidal, they've gone past the point of being able to care about others' feelings, or sometimes they even feel they are so bad/worthless/hopeless their loved ones would be better without them around.

No, I can't judge a suicidal person badly, and I hope if there is a next-life, that they find the peace and happiness they never had in this one.

Even if all religions are bogus, so what? The act of taking one's life is without question detrimental to everyone involved.
If Christianity is correct, the ramifications and consequences for an action such as that are eternal.

Jake

Here is another article that might shed some light.

When a person claims that suicide will end a person’s suffering, they are making a religious claim about the nature of life after death. This cannot be avoided. They are counting on the fact that there is no conscious existence beyond the grave, or that whatever greets us will be pleasant, an improvement on the misery of life on this earth.

If they are wrong, though, and there is a hell awaiting those who deserve it, then for some euthanasia will not end misery, but compound it. The person suffering here on earth is not transported to a place of peace and rest, but rather to an infinitely greater suffering in hell. It is theoretically possible, then, that “mercy killing” could actually be an act of cruelty.

It seems impossible to avoid the intrusion of religious views on either side of this issue. This is not a matter of one party forcing his religious view on another. It’s a matter of two religious views competing with each other. More is at stake here than some people realize.

Jake

To go even further, I cannot say what I would do because I have never been in that situation. Knowing me, I would hang on because that's how I am in and I can put up with a lot of discomfort. Would hope I could get painkillers though.
And perhaps this isn't really a suicide. This is just the inevitable, right? Someone is going to die anyway. Is this really suicide? I don't think it is.

To me, suicide is when a young, healthy person goes out and freezes themselves in the middle of the night because they are depressed. To me, this is a sin against nature. Sorry if you feel differently.