If u kill yourself u go to hell,but what about 9-11 it was jump or burn.not trying to be smart real question.?

Answer 1

That's a very good question! However, I don't think the people who jumped from the burning windows of the WTC on 9/11 could be considered suicides. Suicide is the willful choice to end one's life when one has the choice to go on living. Those people had no choice. The moment the planes collided with the towers and trapped them in an inferno, their fate was sealed. Jumping was the quickest way to avoid that most horrible of deaths, being burned alive.

The jumpers on 9/11 were murdered, the same as the people who burned to death. Choosing one form of death over another because some sadistic person/organization makes you choose is not the same as suicide.

Answer 2

The same type of question has come up often in history. During WW2 many of the Catholics fighter pilots were uncertain what to do. Often if they were hit in their planes, there was nothing they could do to survive. But they did have enough control to turn the plane towards a target and crash into it.

The crash would kill them, but they would have died anyways. So was it "suicide" to pick their crash site? The Catholics churches official ruling was that the pilot could pick a target to hit. But at the last second they should hit their eject button. 99% of the time the button would not work, or if it did, they would not survive the ejection. But by actively doing something the MIGHT preserve their life, it was not a suicide.

There have been people who have jumped or fallen from buildings and survived. Flag poles, awning, wind currents, etc have broken peoples falls. So those who jumped probably did it in the hope that they would survive. They knew they would not otherwise.

So it comes under the "do something that you MIGHT survive, and it is not suicide" heading.

Oh, and not all Christians believe that suicide automatically sends a person to hell. That is a Catholic belief. But most other Christians believe that God considers the mental state of the person, and if they had no choice or where mental imcopentent when they did it, they are not held responsible.

Answer 3

If you intentionally plan to kill yourself, then that is not pleasing to the Lord. But in the case of 9-11, those people were trying to escape and save themselves from situations they had no control over.

Answer 4

The 9/11 are victims...... I don't think the ones that jumped can be called as suicides..... they where trying to escape from death....

Answer 5

Jumping out of a building so you don't burn to death is not suicide...they probably thought it would be less painful to jump out of the building than burn to death. By the way...who says you go to hell if you kill yourself? People kill themselves to get out of their own personal hell...

Answer 6

It was in that case a matter of certain death in the building vs. a very small chance of life. People have survived long falls with very good recovery. Fire, on the other hand, has much smaller odds.

Answer 7

I don't believe in hell or committing suicide *but* if I had the choice of jumping or burning I would jump.

Answer 8

If you are saved and you kill yourself, you go to heaven with a unrepented sin...but you are saved because once saved always saved...those poor souls in 9-11 was probably jumping because it was their last hope...

Answer 9

They may not have jumped knowing that it was suicide. There was always a chance you could survive a fall. Sitting back rationally now I really doubt any one could but in a panic you are not thinking rationally.

Answer 10

was not suicide, those people were doing whatever they thought would keep them alive...were not deliberately trying to kill themselves...besides, after such an event, they more than likely were not in their "right mind" and were not held accountable for their actions at that point...kinda like people with alzheimer's disease, or young children...they do not have the mind to distinguish right from wrong, so they are not held accountable for their actions.