2007-06-04 16:09:19 · 15 answers · asked by Melissa Y 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
um whoever you heard that from was on crack or something, because that isn't even close to anything true! i've meet so many missionaries that don't even want to come home because they love missionary work so much. And i have never once heard of someone killing themselves on or after their mission. that is just ridiculous! why would they?!
2007-06-04 21:49:23 · answer #1 · answered by pono7 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At any given time there are about 60,000 missionaries world wide. It's big news when one of them dies. I've never heard of a suicide, however that might not be as highly publicized.
As for the "shortly thereafter"....no idea. If it's a suicide and he's not a missionary, it's not reported as a missionary committing suicide, but rather "a 21 year old male killed himself....."
So I couldn't say that it's never happened, but I've never heard of it happening either.
2007-06-07 08:49:49 · answer #2 · answered by Ender 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have not heard of any during their mission. I have heard of several afterwards. I think this is an issue for young people of all faiths. The Senator from Oregon lost his son to suicide while he was attending college. He wrote a book on the subject.
2007-06-05 09:06:11 · answer #3 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is true, it is kept hush, hush, liek if a soldier kills himself in Iraq, that is called a death by an IED (explosive) not by the fact that he killed himself. There is probably some excuse, like he was killed by being in the wrong place at the wrong time (liek a drive by shooting). I was engaged to a missionary that didn't finish his mission. After these missionaries go thru the temple and see what the sacred/secret squirll temple ios really like and then go an a mission trip and are taugh the sneaky tactics of how to convert members, some may commit suicide, but it is kept quite.
2007-06-05 05:05:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
If it's true, the number who do is infinitesimal. Most people who commit suicide are mentally ill and the screening process for missionaries is supposed to make sure that anyone with any mental illness is not sent on a mission unless and until s/he is fully cured.
Mr. Peepers, again, you A$$/U/ME a lot. Where is your documentation, your PROOF, of ANY of this garbage you post?
2007-06-05 04:40:23 · answer #5 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Just to let you know...Utah maybe have LOTS of Mormons but that doesn't mean that the ones killing themselfs are returned missionaries. I have never heard about this. I also hope that it will NEVER happen.
2007-06-07 02:48:22 · answer #6 · answered by LDS...Kahuna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every 11 days a Utah teen commits suicide
Utah leads the nation in suicide among men 15-24
Utah has the 11th highest overall suicide rate in the nation
The Utah youth suicide rate has tripled over the last few years
Suicide is the #1 cause of death among Utah teens
2007-06-06 05:46:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some people have historically killed themselves in all situations.
There is no preponderance of missionaries killing themselves on or after their missions.
2007-06-05 02:59:43 · answer #8 · answered by je_apostrophe 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Where on Earth did you hear such a thing? I have served a mission and never heard of anything of such.
Sources?
2007-06-04 16:52:03 · answer #9 · answered by fbjohn117 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard of a missionay killing himself on his mission.
2007-06-04 18:26:05 · answer #10 · answered by J T 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋