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Why cant people who committed suicide be buried in church cemeteries?
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∙ 15y ago
Most likely because suicide is considered self murder. Also that some foolish self appointed Gods of the non compassionate religion thought that they were doing God's will.
Suicide is a sin if the persons mind is sound at the time of the act, but who really knows why a person kills themselves?. Most are committed because the mind of the person is not stable at the time. What right has anyone to say that they cannot be given a proper burial in a church yard. Has any religion the right to judge a person who commits such an act. Let God be the judge, and give the unfortunate a proper burial.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 10y agoWho said that they can´t?
But suicide is a sin in The Bible. Because only God is the master of life and death. It means that you do not have the power to end your own life. This is where I disagree with the church, and every christian. Life is a gift from God, and a gift is something that you give for someone else to enjoy. It is there life, and not Gods anymore. I am sure you can give them a real funeral even though they have committed suicide. It should not be that strict anymore.
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Catholic AnswerThe killing of one's self, death being the willed object or the inevitable and immediate result of a given action. If the doer was felo de se, i.e., had reached the age of reason and was sane and otherwise responsible for his action, it is a mortal sin against the fifth commandment; suicide is an infringement of God's dominion over human life and is contrary to the nature of man. It is not unlawful but laudable to do something that may or will cause death, when a certain and great good will follow and death is not intended, e.g., going into a burning building to save life, nursing the infectious sick. Suicide may be committed by deliberate neglect to take reasonable care of one's self, but one is not bound to take extraordinary care, e.g., by undergoing a ruinously expensive or exceedingly painful surgical operation. A felo de se may not be given Christian burial unless he has given some sign of repentance before dying; in Great Britain the clergy usually accept the verdict of the coroner's jury as to sanity or otherwise without question, but a priest is not bound to do so if he has certain knowledge to the contrary.from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957
note: Christian burial would include being buried in the Church cemetery
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