Is it fair that suicides go to hell?
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Correction: It's not fair to think that people who commit suicide go to hell.\n\nThe upper being of whichever deity you believe in ultimately controls who goes where, not the thoughts of people. No one knows who is going where and, though there are speculations, no one is in control.
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I am truly sorry for your loss. I lost my best friend a few years back to suicide (and it took massive amounts of therapy for me to get over survivor's guilt). I'm Roman Catholic and I think I may have some answers for you.\n\nYes, it is the popular belief that suicides burn in hell. However, I have a firm belief that God is more merciful then us humans. While I do not think that suicides are ushered into heaven on arrival, I do think they wait in purgatory (a spiritual waiting room, a Catholic belief). There, we can pray for them to reach heaven while they do some kind of penance for their sins. It is a Catholic belief that many of us wind up in purgatory because we fall short of heaven through human error.\n\nNOt all branches of Christianity believe this. Many just have heaven and hell.\n\nYou said you and your friend were pagan. Surely you have a version of death that your friend is in. Reincarnation, Elishian fields or something like that. Don't let what others say bring you down. Be it your version or purgatory, your friend is not suffering and will want you to be happy.\n\nIf it helps, I will add you and your friend to my prayers. I hope your life gets better and you can smile again. It's hard loosing a friend like that. YOu have my greatest sympathy.
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It is forbidden to intentionally kill oneself. The person will repeat their act over and over in hellfires.
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Actually, hell is a very "good threat," as you put it.  To tell someone that if they end their life it will be much, much worse with no hope to get better, and it will be like that forever.  However, this life can get better.  That is a powerful "threat."  It kept me from killing myself when I was a teenager.\n\nThat being said, I no longer believe that if you commit suicide you will automatically go to hell.  1 out of every 3 people with bipolar disorder commit suicide.  I look at that as a deadly disease, but not something to be judged on.  I will say, however, that I am glad that I believed otherwise as a teen.
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I dont think hell is eternal I cannot fathom a loving G-d that will eternally damn a person for a few bad choices in life. \n\nthat being said I think most of us end up in hell for a bit if only to clear out any sin we have until we receive are reward for what ever good we have done.
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No. Not because of the act itself. There is no sin that cannot be forgiven, except the rejection of Christ as your Savior. While suicide is a terrible/tragic thing, it is not unforgivable.\n\nNote: I see that there are many responses that indicate a person would "automatically" go to hell for this sin. I disagree with that. We are not saved by our actions. We are saved by grace through faith. Is God's grace nullified when we sin? No. While repentance is very important, it is NOT a means of grace. We do not "earn" forgiveness via our repentance. I'm sure that many, many Christian will die with some sin they never had a chance to repent of...that does not nullify the grace of God. \n\nAll that being said, life is a gift from God! We should use the days that He has given us wisely.
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Yes indeed, I think suicide is a very selfish thing to do. People will be very angry at first, than they go into a depression and than finally recovery. Alot of times though denial and guilt comes first because you cant believe it has happened and than you feel guilty because you think you could have some how prevented it.
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It says nowhere in the Bible that you go to hell for suicide, now you may get punished in heaven, but that is much better than the alternitive. I would rather get beat to death and go to heaven, than live a fabulous life and go to Hell.
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if we die and go to hell, as the statement goes..then think of this  we are already in hell...rape, murder, child abuse, corruption, deciet, brother against sister against father against mother and war and overall mental chaos..we are in hell so when we die we all go to heaven after attoning for our sins to progress even further, so yes the beast is here :)
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i doubt u haf to go thru sth like tt for it to b classified as hell or heaven... pple ard da world go thru lots of things tt is heaven or hell for them... pple in ethiopia? of course its hell for them to b tt way... pple elsewhere living comfortably probably think they're in heaven... but true heaven is wen u help those who feel they r in hell... hope this helps... :)
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Murder-you have no right to inflict harm unto another living soul. But sin and suicide are almost equally as bad. There is always an alternative.
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It doesn't\n\nSuicides—A Resurrection?\n\nTHE tragic news of a suicide does not close a chapter in the lives of relatives and friends; it opens one—a chapter of mixed feelings of pity and anger, sorrow and guilt. And it raises the question: May we entertain any hope for our friend who took his or her life?\n\nAlthough self-inflicted death is never justified, never righteous, the apostle Paul did hold out a beautiful hope for even some unrighteous ones. As he told a Roman court of law: “I have hope toward God . . . that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”—Acts 24:15. \nMany theologians have long dismissed any suggestion that the resurrection of the unrighteous might offer hope for those who commit suicide. Why?\n\nCenturies ago, churchmen introduced a non-Biblical concept: immortal souls that leave the body at death and go straight to heaven, purgatory, Limbo, or hell. That concept clashed with the Bible’s clear teaching of a future resurrection. As Baptist minister Charles Andrews asked: “If the soul is already blissfully in heaven (or is already justifiably roasting in hell), what need is there for anything further?” He added: “This inner contradiction has remained to plague Christians throughout the centuries.”\n\nOne result of such errant theology was that “since Augustine’s time [354-430 C.E.], the church has condemned suicide as a sin,” says Arthur Droge in the Bible Review, “a sin beyond redemption, just like apostasy and adultery.”\n\nJesus told a criminal sentenced to death: “You will be with me in Paradise.” The man was unrighteous—a lawbreaker rather than a distraught suicide victim—guilty by his own frank admission. (Luke 23:39-43) He had no hope of going to heaven to rule with Jesus. So the Paradise in which this thief could hope to come back to life would be the beautiful earth under the rule of Jehovah God’s Kingdom.—Matthew 6:9, 10; Revelation 21:1-4.\n\nFor what purpose will God awaken this criminal? So that He mercilessly can hold his past sins against him? Hardly, for Romans 6:7, 23 says: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin,” and “the wages sin pays is death.” Although his past sins will not be accounted to him, he will still need the ransom to lift him to perfection.\n\nOnly God can fully understand the role of mental sickness, extreme stress, even genetic defects, in a “suicidal crisis,” which, the National Observer noted, “is not a lifetime characteristic [but] often a matter only of minutes or of hours.”\nGranted, one who takes his own life deprives himself of the opportunity to repent of his self-murder. But who can say whether one driven to suicide might have had a change of heart had his fatal attempt failed? Some notorious murderers have, in fact, changed and earned God’s forgiveness during their lifetime.\nThus, Jehovah, having paid “a ransom in exchange for many,” His Son, is within his right to extend mercy, even to some self-murderers, by resurrecting them and giving them the precious opportunity to “repent and turn to God by doing works that befit repentance.”\n\nThe Scriptures encourage us to see ourselves, not as immortal souls, but as valuable creations of the God who loves us, who treasures our being alive, and who looks forward with joy to the time of the resurrection.\n\n4000 years had passed from Adam & Eve, Jesus said to a Religious Leader that no one had gone to Heaven, and millions of people had passed away in death. This is a quote from the King James Bible: \n\nJohn 3:13 " And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven," \n\nIt seems to me, this would eliminate the "immortal soul" belief, not only that, if you go to Heaven or Hell when you die, you completely do away with the resurrection that the Bible speaks about, because the resurrection is suppose to take place after Jesus comes the second time, and that has
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Spot on!  Hell in the Bible refers to the state of death, and the Bible even states that at death "his thoughts do perish".  No, you will not find anyone you will be able to give you clear cut proof that the Bible says anything about eternal damnation!  And a great question!  Maybe this will give so-called "Christians" the impetus they need to actually read the Bible for once instead of having all the crap and prejudice spoonfed to them at church!\nHappy Hunting!
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God has His reasons, and that is sufficient for me.Whether we go to heaven, or to hell is largely dependent on how we act in this life. If we go to hell, it is our own doing, no one elses.
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i was thinking the same thing. but if you go to heaven and you look at them being tortured for eternity and burning. you'll just know they had their chance.  God gave them a certain amount of time to repent and turn to him if they don't then they got what they deserve.
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Too many people believe it's a sin and you'll go to hell for suicide.  Others believe than you should have the right to terminate your own life with dignity when it becomes unbearable.  And then there is the issue of those who are too ill to speak for themselves and have not left an advance directive (or living will).  So... oppression because of religion, again!
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no. They were in hell while they were alive, either real or imagined. however, by committing suicide they put those around them especially those who love them through hell on earth because of the guilty of not knowing for sure why they killed themselves. it sounds like you may be experiencing this type of hell right now. remember you can't change the past only the future don't let their pain continue to hurt you after they have left.