Church's belief on suicide

[duke588]

I'm catholic but never really got involved so i dont know the true teaching. My uncle just commited suicide after a long battle with depression and as i understand it, suicide means you go straight to hell, is this true? If not what does the Catholic church teach about suicide? a link would be great, thanks

[coolwestman]

If you're catholic then you go to hell and I don't even think you get a full burial or w/e. But since when are christians right about everything? Do you believe everything people tell you? Do you believe that many people are going to go to hell and never get to see anything else after they die?

[malaria]

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14326b.htm

[---Beany---]

If alternative views may help you feel better then I'll tell you this: Some people believe that after suicide you follow the same route as as you would anyway, but the problems you faced would stay with you until you've resolved them.

They will only manifest as something equally as difficult in your next incarnation.

[fused]

quote:Originally posted by duke588:

I'm catholic but never really got involved so i dont know the true teaching. My uncle just commited suicide after a long battle with depression and as i understand it, suicide means you go straight to hell, is this true? If not what does the Catholic church teach about suicide? a link would be great, thanks

Do you think that an all loving God would send a depressed man to burn forever just because he decided through the gloom of his depression that life was not worth living?

Give that question some good thought. Whenever I approach that question, I leave with one of two answers: Either God truly is all loving, and the person who killed themself is in heaven, or God is not all loving. Since the Bible affirms that he is all loving, the former must be true.

[kenwih]

quote:Originally posted by fused:



Do you think that an all loving God would send a depressed man to burn forever just because he decided through the gloom of his depression that life was not worth living?

Give that question some good thought. Whenever I approach that question, I leave with one of two answers: Either God truly is all loving, and the person who killed themself is in heaven, or God is not all loving. Since the Bible affirms that he is all loving, the former must be true.

why are heaven and hell the only possible alternatives after death?

[MasterPython]

quote:Originally posted by kenwih:

why are heaven and hell the only possible alternatives after death?

If you are Catholic they make some new ones for the hard to place people.

[PerpetualBurn]

In Catholicism suicide is the worst of all sins. The problem is that you cannot repent before a sin, only after. This means that if you commit the sin of suicide, then you cannot repent, and thus will go to hell.

Interestingly, according to the Catholic doctrine, this makes suicide worse than murder since that can be repented.

If Catholocism is right, which it isn't, then the guy is rotting down below.

[Abrahim]

quote:Originally posted by PerpetualBurn:

In Catholicism suicide is the worst of all sins. The problem is that you cannot repent before a sin, only after. This means that if you commit the sin of suicide, then you cannot repent, and thus will go to hell.

Interestingly, according to the Catholic doctrine, this makes suicide worse than murder since that can be repented.

If Catholocism is right, which it isn't, then the guy is rotting down below.

I think the guy is rotting despite what Catholicism has to say, not to be too insensitive. I must say that those who commit suicide and can not tolerate what trials they may have in life so that they may take away their own gift of life showing that they take it for granted, are indeed on a pathway to hell. Perhaps if he had chosen to live he could've repented and redeemed himself, but he wasted his opportunity and will have no other.



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[fused]

quote:Originally posted by kenwih:

why are heaven and hell the only possible alternatives after death?

Well, I'm not Christian, so I don't think that either of them exist anyways.

However, I was posting from a Christian point of view, and in that religion, it's either one or the other.