This is just 2 question and I want to know what you think.
Before you read this I want to tell you that there are 2 parts. Part on is a question and part two is related but religous, so if you are not religious don’t read the second part.
Part 1
Do people have the right to die?
I personally people do have the right to do so no matter who hey are as long as that it is it is from there own free will.
Part 2
Is it a sin to commit suicide?
I have had this question in my head a lot and I was wondering, the ten commandments say not to kill, but does that aaply to killing oneself?
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Hey there, here’s my opinion for what it’s worth.
1) People may have a right to end their own lives, but only if there is 100% certainty of no recovery, which is very rare for mental illness. It’s not a personal decision either, because dying will impact the people around you for the rest of their lives. I’ve lost a friend before, and it absolutely killed me. I think yes people have a right, but there’s always another option. Live, and keep fighting.
2) It technically is a sin, because life is God’s gift, and you are rejecting it if you kill yourself. And I think(?) it is stated somewhere in the Bible that those who commit suicide are damned to hell. Might have to confirm that though, I’m not completely sure.
Featherling you are right about part two according to ancient scripture, ” god” did give us a gift nd according to ancient scripture it is a sin to reject it through means of suicide, but yur answer to part one, heres a question to everyone who comes along this, wat does it matter about the ppl who will be hurt by our departure?? Yu will be dead , yu wont even know them anymore,
Featherling you are right about part two according to ancient scripture, ” god” did give us a gift nd according to ancient scripture it is a sin to reject it through means of suicide, but yur answer to part one, heres a question to everyone who comes along this, wat does it matter about the ppl who will be hurt by our departure?? Yu will be dead , yu wont even know them anymore,
If people knew what death really meant there would be no suicides because it’s not the answer to anything.
Your pain mental and emotional pain and anguish will not dissapear only your body that is used as a vessel to carry your soul. Souls never die. Souls never forget their lifetime family’s either. When you die your going to have to watch your whole death and how it affects the ones you love. Your not just going to dissapear and become nothing. Anyone who committs suicide is not ready for death because a real death is the beginning of your spiritual inward journey but to get to this place you must have conquered life and yourself first. There is an question to every answer and an answer to every question. The greatest question to life is who am I? The answer is I am God. Time and space shadow and substance what matter these? I am myself.
It technically doesn’t say that suicide is a sin anywhere in the Bible.
I’ve heard convincing arguments from both sides on whether or not suicide is a sin. My opinion? I’m not sure. But I don’t want to gamble.
My very devout uncle recently told me that there is only one unforgivable sin: unbelief. So, so long as you are a faithful Christian, who professes Jesus as Savior and Lord, you should be fine. Again, though, I’m not entirely sure.
Death is everyone’s birth right and something that is inevitable to end life. Your born, you grow and then you die.
As for suicide being a sin what a load of shit. If there was really a god why would he let his followers committ these acts and not intervene? Everyone ultimately committs suicide. Like smokers who develop cancer, alcoholics with failed livers, obese people who eat to much. These are not deliberate acts of suicide but we all know the outcome of such behaviour and long term abuse. Our bodies break down and we die prematurely. So what makes it any different from someone who decided to take their live faster. Will the alcoholic who was a nasty drunk whose liver failed causing him to die find heaven but not the good Samaritan who followed all God’s commands but in the end couldn’t take it and had to hang himself. How ridiculous of an all loving God.
It’s your life, your choice you are God. Heaven is right here and hell is what you create in your own mind.
If Heaven is right here then I demand a refund.
Me too :/
1) Yes, everybody has the right to take their own lives, but it’s imperative that before doing so, one carefully takes into account the consequences to those left behind, and weighs those up against the degree of their own suffering, and what other options are available. For example, while I was a single mum, and my sons were still young, in my eyes I had no right to suicide. My death would have destroyed my children’s life, so that door was closed to me, no matter how much I wanted it. However, now they are both grown up and independent (20 and 23), so that door is now unlocked. To me it does not matter that I am no longer around to see the pain my death causes – my core values prohibit me to inflict pain on others lightly.
2) yes and no. If you ask for forgiveness, and have gone with all that I said above, but the pain is just more than you can cope with, I trust and hope that God will see it more like you have succumbed to an illness, than you having rejected the life He gave you. In this case I don’t see dying by your own hand as different from dying of cancer, or a stroke. You die of depression, or the consequences of a fucked up life, or both.
However if you commit suicide to get back at somebody, out of revenge, or with an attitude of ‘fuck you all’, and without having tried your best to find other solutions, then I do think it’s a sin.
Just my two cents.
Peace.