Taking your own life.?

Question

From a spiritual perspective..
What will result from suicide?

Answer 1

I used to believe suicide was unforgivable -- murdering then not having the option to ask forgiveness for it.

Then I heard two very interesting arguements.

First, to believe that way implies that one must ask forgiveness of each individual sin, which seems to be just overly tedious and not in keeping with the "God knows your heart" or "God's grace covers all sins" beliefs.

Second, I had a Sunday School teacher who killed himself a few years back. I, and much of my fellow church members, was very upset, almost to the point of angry, at the hypocricy of a man who taught us every week that God is there for us. At the funeral, the minister mentioned this. He said that the man had suffered for years against severe depression, and was not in a right state of mind when he finally succombed to the suicidal tendencies. He suggested we consider the thousands of times the man had overcome temptation, not the 1 day he did not.

Answer 2

I think that suicide is a cop out. People who do suicide must be in a very confused state of mind and I feel that they are in a state of diminished culpability; they get caught up in the vortex of their mixed up life. I do not think any one has any right to condemn them to spiritual damnation - only God judges - and we can never know the full story. I think the best we can do is to give that person the benefit of the doubt and let God deal with them. From my Christian perspective God's love is radically unconditional and God will keep working on us - here or in the here after - until we come to our right mind. So be sure that there will be many second chances for everyone. This does not mean that the experiences we go through until we learn are all going to be nice; but if we learn in the end, they will be worth while. Is it not? Life is wonderful even if it is hard and often confusing. I would say to anyone considering suicide; "If they only knew".

Peace

Answer 3

Suicide is usually a result of severe depression, or a feeling of not being able to cope anymore of what is going on. It has nothing to do with selfishness because the depressed mind is incapable of thinking of others at the time. From a spiritual view my belief as a spiritualist is that the soul has cut short its earthly life, possibly because it was planned before the incarnation, or possibly because the soul could not cope with the experiences it was having. Once departed the soul would return to spirit and would endure a period of healing within which it would have to atone for ending the earthly life earlier than planned and be genuinely sorry it did so before moving on. It would then have to decide whether to reincarnate to learn the lessons which were cut short in the previous life.

Answer 4

Regardless of your faith or religion or beliefs, it is true that all energy in the universe was at once as one. A more scientifically minded person would say we all came from the same "gooey substance" or matter or big bang, while a more religious person would say we all came from God.

The point being that we all seem to agree that we all came from the same place, we just can't agree on the place. Well, my personal belief is that we will all once again be as one after the transformation that is our life. This is in every aspect, but most importantly in consciousness.

So while suicide and every other form of death is your end, you aren't forgotten. You've ended your life as an individual and are now only in the process of returning to one. Energy can never be destroyed nor created, so I would be inclined to tell you that putting a bullet between your eyes won't destroy what you've done, it'll only destroy you.

To me, that does seem like the epitome of a bad idea. Regardless of your faith or faithlessness, you'd have to see and have to recognize that nothing good could come from that, not for you or your loved ones.

Answer 5

On the taking your own life perspective, life is a summary of choices and if I am in a capacity where I can choose to take my own life I will. Spiritually if those around me are comfortable with my decision, then instead of mourning I hope it allows them celebrate my life and accomplishments. Hopefully it is also me saying I am finished this spiritual journey, what does the infinite have in store next.

Answer 6

From a Buddhist perspective it's pretty bad news.
Here's you, just before you take your life, with a whole load af horrible Karma which is your responsibility.
Now here's you, at the start of your next life, with the same load of horrible Karma - PLUS - now you've killed someone!

A Zen monk once told me that everyone has the capacity to deal with their own Karma - just! You couldn't deal with anybody else's Karma, but you can deal with your own.

R W, if this isn't just a theoretical question, drop me an email.

Answer 7

The bible says that God reads hearts and not only our actions. As the heart is symbolic of our motivation and intentions we can be assured that God understands our reasons for doing things.

If Jesus took away the sins of the world and suicide is a sin then the blood of Jesus covers the err. There are ones that may think the blood of Jesus was not good enough, but the bible assures us that it was.

If you are thinking of taking your own life, please do not turn to men for help as they do not have any. The power of prayer is not to be discarded, direct your plea for help to the creator of all things, talk to him through the one he instigated as our mediator, Jesus the Christ.

The bible says seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened. Open your mind and allow him in he will help you.

Answer 8

Each life here in the earth school is like a class, so quitting it mid session, would only mean that we would have to repeat it, which means being born under similar circumstances to learn all the lessons, we were supposed to learn from our life challenges.

We choose our lessons, and also it is our own script that we are living, so quitting it, would be like opting out of a film you are writing, directing and acting in. Doesn't help, does it?

Answer 9

Torment. Not because of any punishment. But because you will have the same disposition you have now while in the spirit. You may have severed your spirit from your body, and probably because you had some severe emotional issues. But its not going to help anything. youll still be depressed and miserable and unfortunately you wont be able to change as easily because of the loss of your body.

Answer 10

I am not going into the spiritual side of suicide except to say it's forbidden in the bible

From a personal point of view and having a wife who killed her self because of mental illness.
I must say it's a cowards way out showing how selfish you are not caring about the pain and suffering you would cause to those who love you.