Suicide and Religion...

Suicide is deemed to be on of the most, if not the most, grievous of all the sins in Christianity and some other religions as well. In this news story I was reading on the internet, there were some "suicide survivors" talking with the news reporter, clergymen and some psychologists. They were discussing about the pain and anguish of suicide and how their surviving family and friends cope with it. They also talked about some of the origins and reasons of suicide. The doctors in the article claimed it was not religion, morality but just pain that they experience. The families were said to be in pain also, wondering whether their loved one is in Hell or not. Personally, if a person was good, caring, kind and selfless all of their life and they commit suicide, then I believe that they are at peace. If you think about it, not everyone that goes through severe depression want to or are able to go to help. People are all different and need different ways out. Unfortunately, not all of the experts know all of the ways to reach out to everyone in order to save everyone from committing suicide. To some people, anyone who commits suicide will go to Hell because God gave them the ultimate gift of life and they just threw it away. But what good is a gift if it's ruined when you get it? What good is a gift if it gets ruined while you have it? If life is going to be conceptualized into something like a gift, then you can say that someone who has a ruined, broken gift will obviously throw it away right? Realistically, not from a religious perspective, I believe that someone who is a good person who could not, or did not want to seek help will be at peace somewhere if they commit suicide. The religious part of me also says that they may go to Hell or purgatory or whatever but the realistic subjective side of me almost outweighs that notion.