Can suicide be forgiven

Answer 1

no! no! no! don't do it! Life is to much important to die for. No one knows what shall happen.

Roman Catholic AnswerAny sin can be forgiven if the person repents, confesses, and receives absolution in the sacrament of penance - this is the normal way that Jesus set things up to receive God's forgiveness. Successful suicide cannot be forgiven for a number of reasons, most obviously because the person is no longer around to seek that forgiveness. The other main reason is that it manifests despair. Despair is an unforgivable sin as anyone who despairs thinks they cannot be forgiven and so they do not even ask. Thus, all the problems a suicide was thinking of avoiding - through suicide - only manifest themselves eternally in hell. Nobody - while alive - is beyond the help of God. So anyone thinking of suicide should call a priest pronto and speak to them to receive God's mercy before it is too late, eternally too late.

Answer 2

Theologians are divided about this. There is the Biblical injunction in St. Matthew"s passion-One of the Last words of Christ- Father Forgive them, for they KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO! ( the insanity defense thus stems from Christ himself as reported by Matthew)., In not to distant times any deliberate ( say notes found, huge amounts of sleeping pills, slit wrists, gunshot self-inflicted ) obvious suicide was refused Church Burial- Completely. The family would have to shop around for another church and cemetery site. This applied to the suicidal death of Carole Landis. She was buried by an Episcopal priest as her deliberate suicide removed her from the ranks of the Catholics. There are certain types of suicide involviong overdoses of drugs and suspicious vehicular accidents ( many single-vehicle crashes fit these parameters) but since there is doubt and the evidence is of a vehicular smash- it goes in the books as primary cause of death- Automobile accident. If the person involved in the Suicide ( not accident here)- was literally out of their mind- well He May Forgive, as in Matthew"s gospel.