What does your religion say about suicide and what happens to those who die that way?

Answer 1

To be honest, I'm not sure but if I were to take a guess, where one goes would be based on weighing the good and bad that one has done while living, depending on how "good" and "bad" are seen in God's eye. Some people seem to think that committing suicide is a sin and one definitely gets to hell that way, but I can't be too sure about this because what if someone was a good person but just felt bad deep down inside and did this to themselves? In short, I don't know. Many people seem to think that doing this is a selfish action, but I would also feel greatly not only for such a person's loved ones, but also for that person. Only those who feel pain or suffering or otherwise not happy and content would think of doing such a thing to themselves, so they suffer a lot too.

If you think about it, lets take an extreme example. Is it better for someone thats, say, inherently evil, to keep remaining on earth and committing crime after crime before being caught and jailed for life, or to take their own life, or to change their ways for the better? Obviously, the last option is the most desirable, but whether the first is better or worse than the second...maybe something only God can judge. But it wouldn't help the person gain good points by committing crime after crime, would it?

Life is often really hard, and some people just can't take it anymore. From my standpoint (and using Hindu concepts) I would think that what happens to the person committing suicide depends not only on their deeds in the present life (and perhaps previous lives because of reincarnation) but also the circumstances surrounding their suicide and what they left behind.

This is an interesting (though morbid) question because I think its sometimes difficult to determine whether someone died due to suicide or some other accident. For example, if someone was in a dangerous area at night and got killed, could you say whether that person meant to be exposed and get killed or whether this was just an unintended outcome? What about car crashes? I'm digressing so I'll just stop now.

Answer 2

Well, it all depends on their state of mind. Most people who kill themselves really aren't thinking in the right state of mind. Usually, they have some mental problems that cause them to think it's the only way out. Those type of people I don't think will be held accountable for that. It is a sin, but because their minds weren't working right, they have no concept of sin.

There are those people though that kill themselves to get out of a situation that should have just been handled, like legal problems or other earthly problems. These people did have a way out, and they choose what they thought was the easiest. I think they will have to answer for why they did it, and then be given a chance to explain.

I think God will judge us all fairly. All things will be taken into account. It isn't up to us to say what will happen to them. That's for their God to decide.

Answer 3

suicide,in any religion,faith any corner of the world is definitely not a savoury thing to do.
life is beautiful.at times it may get ugly but that is not final,so the beauty can return at any step or turn.
by the way,it is well known since ages that people who die unnatural death( includes murder,suicides,accidents etc) can not rest after death-they become ghosts and spirites i.e. neither of earth, nor of heaven o hell and suffer by having to live the same moment over n over again till hundreds of years. there are plenty of examples of people who took their life and became ghosts afterwards.no, iam not joking or fooling u....

Answer 4

By suicide he becomes a ghost. Because the body is given by God, and he is killing.
The soul is destined to live in a certain body for a certain period. If you immaturely stop it, then you become responsible. If he kills the body, he is a criminal.

Answer 5

It's considered no different from any other death. The way you lived your life before that dictates whether or not you'll head to the Darkening Land or be forced to wander the earth forever.

Answer 6

The tragic news of a suicide does not close a chapter in the lives of relatives and friends; it opens one, a chapter of mixed feelings of pity and anger, sorrow and guilt. And it raises the question: May we entertain any hope for our friend who took his or her life?

Although self-inflicted death is never justified, never righteous, the apostle Paul did hold out a beautiful hope for even some unrighteous ones. As he told a Roman court of law: “I have hope toward God, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.” Acts 24:15.
Many theologians have long dismissed any suggestion that the resurrection of the unrighteous might offer hope for those who commit suicide. Why?

Centuries ago, churchmen introduced a non-Biblical concept: immortal souls that leave the body at death and go straight to heaven, purgatory, Limbo, or hell. That concept clashed with the Bible’s clear teaching of a future resurrection. As Baptist minister Charles Andrews asked: “If the soul is already blissfully in heaven (or is already justifiably roasting in hell), what need is there for anything further?” He added: “This inner contradiction has remained to plague Christians throughout the centuries.”

One result of such errant theology was that “since Augustine’s time [354-430 C.E.], the church has condemned suicide as a sin,” says Arthur Droge in the Bible Review, “a sin beyond redemption, just like apostasy and adultery.”

Jesus told a criminal sentenced to death: “You will be with me in Paradise.” The man was unrighteous, a lawbreaker rather than a distraught suicide victim, guilty by his own frank admission. (Luke 23:39-43) He had no hope of going to heaven to rule with Jesus. So the Paradise in which this thief could hope to come back to life would be the beautiful earth under the rule of Jehovah God’s Kingdom. Matthew 6:9, 10; Revelation 21:1-4.

For what purpose will God awaken this criminal? So that He mercilessly can hold his past sins against him? Hardly, for Romans 6:7, 23 says: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin,” and “the wages sin pays is death.” Although his past sins will not be accounted to him, he will still need the ransom to lift him to perfection.

Only God can fully understand the role of mental sickness, extreme stress, even genetic defects, in a “suicidal crisis,” which, the National Observer noted, “is not a lifetime characteristic [but] often a matter only of minutes or of hours.”
Granted, one who takes his own life deprives himself of the opportunity to repent of his self-murder. But who can say whether one driven to suicide might have had a change of heart had his fatal attempt failed? Some notorious murderers have, in fact, changed and earned God’s forgiveness during their lifetime.
Thus, Jehovah, having paid “a ransom in exchange for many,” His Son, is within his right to extend mercy, even to some self-murderers, by resurrecting them and giving them the precious opportunity to “repent and turn to God by doing works that befit repentance.”

The Scriptures encourage us to see ourselves, not as immortal souls, but as valuable creations of the God who loves us, who treasures our being alive, and who looks forward with joy to the time of the resurrection.

4000 years had passed from Adam & Eve, Jesus said to a Religious Leader that no one had gone to Heaven, and millions of people had passed away in death. This is a quote from the King James Bible:

John 3:13 " And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,"
it seems to me, this would eliminate the "immortal soul" belief, not only that, if you go to Heaven or Hell when you die, you completely do away with the resurrection that the Bible speaks about, because the resurrection is suppose to take place after Jesus comes the second time, and that has not happened.

Answer 7

It is our belief that they died in pain with an ill mind. They will take the next life a day at a time like we all do this one, we hope they find more peace and joy in the next though.

Answer 8

My religion says it's wrong. If you are depressed and pained enough to kill yourself, get counseling. You can bear it. We believe that God doesn't give us trials that we can't handle.
What happens to them? It depends on their mental state, I think. God will judge them, so we aren't sure, but my theory is that if someone is depressed it might effect their state of mind so they can't judge correctly, and they shouldn't be condemned for that.

Answer 9

That's its a gross sin and that if you do it you have a slim to none chance being resurrected in the new system

Answer 10

Only God can judge what is in a persons heart