Do you believe that suicide is forgiveable?

Answer 1

Consider Masada
Socrates
Kamikaze
Thích Quang Duc
Jan Palach
Argentinian fighter pilots during the Falklands War in 1982
Japanese seppuku (Harikari)
Jeanine Deckers, Belgian religious, aka The Singing Nun
(ironically) Sigmund Freud
Chuck Humphrey, Heaven's Gate
Judas Iscariot He was in a no-win situation.
Joseph Merrick, aka the Elephant Man
Seneca the Younger, (65) ordered to commit suicide by Nero
Saul King of Israel (1 Sam. 31:4)
Boudica, (1st century), Celtic chieftainess before Romans 2nd capture
Christians in Nero's Arena (all they had to do was recant, by not doing so, they commited a form of suicide, they deliberately left themselves in harms way and would no longer spread the Word of Christ)

Many suicides are mentally ill and are not of sound mind. They suffer more than we will ever know. Jesus healed the sick, they were forgiven. You feel that because Jesus no longer walks the earth in physical form, these emotionally injured people do not deserve healing? You need to walk in their sandals.

Yes, I believe it is forgiveable. God's works are mysterious to man. Who is to judge? When called, you go.

Answer 2

Suicide is not forgivable because the Lord is very clear about taking what does not belong to you. Your life does not belong to you and therefore you are prevented from taking it. Anyone who commits suicide is bound for hell and there is no remedy. However, discretion of forgiveness belongs to God. Rather than making suicide and option, it is better to talk to someone about it and perhaps appreciate the fact that life is all about up and down. Suicide is devilish and the bait is hopelessness, we should all avoid it.
I doubt if family and friends of anyone can all forgive, if this is so, God may not forgive.

Answer 3

I can't say that I believe suicide is UNFORGIVABLE. Reason being: If you are in your right frame of mind and you make the DECISION to take your life, then I believe suicide is NOT FORGIVEABLE. However, who is to say that people to commit suicide ARE in their right minds? We have no idea what frame of mind a person who is committed suicide was in at the time of the life-taking. If they were not "with it" at the time of the suicide, then I believe that it WOULD be FORGIVEABLE. This goes back to what God would judge....only he knows if this person made an AWARE DECISION to do away with his life or if he was not in his "right mind" at that time. As the story goes....Judge ye not, for ye shall be judged.

Answer 4

The question is moot. There is nothing to forgive about suicide. It just is. Is the sun coming up in the east forgiveable?

Answer 5

Yes It Is Forgivable Don't Be Fooled By

If You Die By Your Own Hand You Shall Be Damned

Answer 6

There is no sin. There is nothing to be forgiven. It is all about learning and growing. People have lessons to learn. Each soul agrees to play out a certain role before being born. We even agree on how we will die. That isn't to say that we can't change our path but we have many possible futures and it is how we choose that guides us. When a person takes their life it is sad but it also teaches lessons to the people around them. Those lessons influence these people in their future choices. They also learn things like compassion, sympathy,loss, and some learn anger.No one is punished after this life. No one is rewarded. We are all equally loved in the end.
Love & Light
Sharon
One Planet = One People

Answer 7

True and lasting forgiveness is only plausible by abolition of law, when studied out in the Bible. God hath forgiven you, and for Christ's sake (Eph 4), speaks of Christ: the end of the law (Rom 10:4). He is our peace, who hath abolished the law (Eph 2:14).
http://www.godshew.org/ShewBread.htm#Forgiveness

By abolition of law there is no more suicide. For law is suicide-all: all perish by the using of ordinances (Colossians 2:20-22).

The KofG is located within you. If you perish, it's as if all the KofG within you also perish. That is why we're told "endure unto the end to be saved(delivered)" only (from the law: Rom 7:6), by grace only; rather than saved and destroyed after by grace and law. And the "you all" in the end begins with "you", made perfect(merciful) by the God of all grace, after ye suffer awhile: 1Pet 5:10

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 8

No. just like human-cloning & plastic surgery(there're some exceptions 4 that) suicide is an activity that withstands the fate that God has destined for human. It's definitely unforgivable. Our lives aren't really ours. Our lives are owned by God. God entrusts the lives to us until 'the time to go home' is coming. So if you mess up with 'that entrusted good' you gotta responsible 4 that.

Answer 9

Yes. What is more, it is now a terrible sin against the will of God to say otherwise. All of those answers to said "no" are forgiven.

For it is God's grace that every soul of humanity now be saved through the coming of the constitution of one heaven.
http://one-heaven.org

And if a person should still feel so inclined to curse and cut and past Bible quotes to the contrary, then let them be so brash and arrogant to deny this being the word of God.

No more curses. No more hate. No more arrogance.

Answer 10

From a Christian point of view? I don't know. No one does. So why chance it? :)

And if you are asking this because a loved one comitted suicide, never give up hope that maybe God understood why they did what they did and welcomed them with open arms. Don't dwell on the possibilities.