The Bible doesn't specifically address the subject (that I know off) but since our life is a gift from God, someone taking their own life could be interpreted as disrespecting that gift.
However, we all know that people who commit suicide are normally in a state of desperation and maybe completely out of their minds. We're not here to judge and we don't know what happens in people's lives to make them get to the point of thinking that death is better than the life they have. It is really sad that so many people think they don't have another way out.
Well, mental illness is something different, but a normal, intelligent and wise man must not commit suicide as it is a sin:
"According to the theology of
the Roman Catholic Church, suicide is objectively a sin which violates the commandment "Thou shalt not kill".
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"Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 2280, 2281".
It raise a question:
Jesus was a Jew not a Christian all his life, but those who proclaim about him as a "first Christian" though posthumously, was Jesus a Catholic Christian?
If yes, that makes Jesus a sinful Catholic, please. Right,please?
Regards
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Judaism[edit]
Main article: Jewish views on suicide
Suicides are frowned upon and buried in a separate part of a Jewish cemetery, and may not receive certain mourning rites. In practice, every means is used to excuse suicide—usually by determining either that the suicide itself proves that the person was not in their right mind, or that the person committing suicide must have repented after performing the deadly act but shortly before death occurred. Taking one's own life may be seen as a preferred alternative to committing certain cardinal sins.[2]
See Talmud Bavli Gittin, 57b
Islam[edit]
Muslim scholars and clerics consider suicide
forbidden, including
suicide bombing.
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A verse in the Quran instructs:
And do not kill yourselves, surely God is most Merciful to you.
— Qur'an, Sura 4 (
An-Nisa),
ayat 29
[25]
The prohibition of suicide has also been recorded in statements of
hadith (sayings of
Muhammad); for example:
Narrated
Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "He who commits suicide by throttling shall keep on throttling himself in the Hell Fire (forever) and he who commits suicide by stabbing himself shall keep on stabbing himself in the Hell-Fire."
—
Sahih al-Bukhari,
2:23:446
Religious views on suicide - Wikipedia
Hinduism[edit]
In
Hinduism, suicide is spiritually unacceptable. Generally, taking your own life is considered a violation of the code of
ahimsa (non-violence) and therefore equally
sinful as murdering another.
Evangelicals, Charismatics, Pentecostals, and other denominations
Conservative Protestants (
Evangelicals,
Charismatics,
Pentecostals, and other denominations) have often argued that suicide is self-
murder, and so anyone who commits it is sinning and it is the same as if the person murdered another human being. An additional view concerns the act of asking for salvation and accepting Jesus Christ as personal savior, which must be done prior to death. This is an important aspect of many Protestant denominations, and the problem with suicide is that once dead the individual is unable to accept salvation. The unpardonable sin then becomes not the suicide itself, but rather the refusal of the gift of salvation.
Orthodox Tradition
Suicide is regarded generally within the
Orthodox Tradition as a rejection of God's gift of physical life, a failure of stewardship, an act of despair, and a transgression of the sixth commandment, "You shall not kill" (Exodus 20:13). The Orthodox Church normally denies a
Christian burial to a person who has committed suicide.
Religious views on suicide - Wikipedia