This question applies to anyone with knowledge of a religion that has a heaven in its belief. I'll use Catholicism as an example. Since heaven is a paradise, shouldn't I wanna end my life on Earth as quickly as possible through some sort of "legitimate" means?
Perhaps enlisting in the military out of high school, serve in Iraq with distinction and honor, confess my sins, and die in combat? Thats not suicide...and I would have a clean slate...
From a religious perspective, heaven seems like the most ideal place to be, since life on Earth is so imperfect, and for many, downright miserable.
**Some serious answers please! I didn't intend the morbid Iraq example to have a poltical connotation. It was the only occupation I could think of where the mortality rate would be high for someone young.
2006-09-17
21:52:22
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