Majority people still consider a suicide to be a sin?

[Charly05]

this just sounds super ridiculous to me. If a person who suffered so much in life due to various reasons, decides to end their own life cause they can't seem to find people/purpose to get going, isn't it sad?
how to someone people even get the audacity to blame them instead and comment things like they're committing a sin?
what are some other absurd major opinions you've come across?

[DJB72]

I've survived five serious attempts. Just saying that as my credentials for this answer...

Even at the time I believed what I was attempting to do in ending my life was sinful. Most of the people I love are dead, including my brother and my dad.

My brother was before I was 13. Hit by a car on his bicycle. He wasn't quite ten.

I watched my mum's parents dying of cancers that took their time to eat their bodies. My dad's parents died of a ruptured heart and an aortic aneurysm.

Then my dad got brain cancer that took his dignity before it took his life by changing his personality as the tumour grew, left him with a hole in his skull I could have put my fist in and then finally took his life.

So I wasn't 30 yet, most of my loved ones gone and I woke up in pain every. Single. Day.

So I tried. First time it was finally what got my GP to send me to a shrink. 2, 3 & 4 were partly because of how stunningly well the "therapy" in CBT works with neurodivergent people.

Like I needed more thoughts.

I survived. My last attempt I took an entire month's diabetic medicine. No note. No last "I'm going now" phone call. I just went to my bed, lay down and let myself go to oblivion.

Except I didn't. It was cold. Dark. Darker than the photography darkroom I used. I was alone, just me and every hate-filled accusation I ever thought. I was still me. But no garden. No tunnel. Just me and hate.

And I knew I deserved it.

Then there was the purest light. Not like anything I can describe. And a figure I recognised. The light was originating in Him not illuminating Him. He had a sword in one hand and reached for me with the other. I realised I was chained. The sword cut the chain like it was cotton. I took His hand and instantly we were in my bedroom.

He said four words. "Don't. Do. That. Again."

That's 25 years ago. I've actually - clinically - had worse depression since that moment. But when the person you know paid for your soul tells you not to do something you take it seriously.

Right now I'm going through a worse time than I did 25 years ago, but I know suicide isn't an answer. It hurts everyone you leave behind.

I've decided not to go anonymous on this answer. I considered it. If it's something you're thinking about then please DM me and I'll listen to your story. No judgement from me, I promise. Sometimes talking to a stranger gives you a new perspective.

[RebelinSteel]

Attempting suicide was illegal in the UK and anyone making the attempt could be put sentenced to prison or fined, just what someone who is that low needs. For Felo de se anyone found sane and survived it used to be case they were take to a crossroads, a pit dug and their body thrown in, then a wooden stake hammered through the body to keep it in place. I am for the right to commit suicide by assistance - Termination of Life on Request. Yes it’s contentious but with modern medicine and technology keeping people alive with horrendous conditions far longer than would have been.

[jennifer_bloom]

I believe suicide is an immoral act that God forbids but I also believe human beings do not have the right to force people to stay alive if the person is suffering extreme pain and also suicidal. Just it's immoral to dislike somebody but you can't throw somebody in jail for not liking you. God gave us freedom of choice and we should give each other freedom of choice. The bible says everyone on earth sins and does immoral things sometimes so I do not believe one immoral person has the right to control the immoral decisions of another person. The law was created to avenge crimes that cause harm to innocent people. People who harm themselves, should not be punished by jail sentences, they should be given therapy and drugs and those therapies and drugs should be optional unless they are a danger to others and need to be forcibly treated to prevent injury to their communities.

[Cutegirl06]

I believe you should never kill yourself or anyone else. You are interfering with God's plan for this life. I think you have to pay a price for both when you die. Killing yourself and/or someone else is major sin, your just throwing your life that God gave you back in his face.

[strateguy632]

complain about sin? your example is a complaint about civil law not allowing... assisted suicide unless they are near death.

suffer means chronic pain and still illegal so forbidden!

we all suffer so without chronic pain no excuse to wuss out.

[ChicoFromThe305]

Life was a God given gift, for you to just throw it away is sinful, no matter the struggles because with God's guidance there's always an escape from your problems, suicide only happens when people feel alone and dont want to find solutions, its why its known as the "easiest way out"for and choose to not follow the guidance, which leads them to suicide, its all about choices and suicide is never the answer.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Sins aren't real, all religions are bullshit.

A better topic is how silly it is to end your own life when you're stressed. People are stressed because things aren't going as they want them to, but if you're dead, they never can.

Its also silly that its illegal in some countries, a dead person isn't going to be worried about getting arrested.

[PeachyPie93]

It is a sin. If it wasn't, I would have killed myself many years ago.
God tests everyone but if you exit yourself god doesn't appreciate it. If you don't believe in god though then it doesn't matter at all they they did that.

[Zestyassmf1997]

It’s a tough call. We have to consider how sin is defined. We also have to consider why suicide is or isn’t a sin. I think the idea is that the taking of human life is inherently bad. I’m not sure I’m convinced it is a sin.

[EnglishArtsteacher]

According to Christianity, suicide is a sin, period.

But, non-Christians don't fixate on whether an act is a sin, or not.

[AviatorTom]

For those people who believe in the Ten Commandments, suicide is a violation of the 6th Commandment "Thou shalt not kill".

[_piotr]

Yes, because it is a sin. "Thou shalt not kill" (also yourself).

[Roudyrebel8]

Yes!!!