Suicide and God

I would like you to know that my friend committed suicide last night.. If you want my truth look in JOB what did he go through? If you want to look further look in MARK, and if you would really want to look even further look into JOHN all stories will lead into truch and fiction all stories lead to JESUS and all have pain and suffering but if you look close and see that trust is the truth and pain only has reward, if you are thinking about suicide do not because in the end you will only be my enemy as I will be the ANGEL of DEATH… I will burn cities and life…

you’re sick, sir. You are NOT God, and suicide does NOT nullify God’s sacrifice.

Sure, Judas commited suicide, but why should all believes suffer because of what Judas did?

Suicide is not listed as the unforgivable sin in the Bible, that’s blaspheming the Holy Spirit. And if God forgives David for murdering an innocent man, I’m sure He forgives a suicide!

When you accept Christ ALL your sins are forgiven INCLUDING suicide! That doesn’t mean you should do it, but that just means you won’t be tormnented endlessly!

blaspheming of the holy spirt is the only sin that is NOT forgiven!!! if you do yourself… and can not ask of his blood!! thats his pont. i’ev seen death for myself two times. well the frist time i died 5 times. i walked out in font of a car that was movig at 70 no i did not see the light. yet i did see the hell i live. than i came back with a feeling of reason…. well that came crashing down. i cashed at the same time. i woke up in a word of pain yet again! this time i got in the car and gased myself to death. look i don’t know why i am here? all i know is i don’t want to be here like this.yet i gave my life to him so there for i must live for him. hey i can only hope i am here to hear you….
hankchalmers@yahoo.com

I don’t know what MAD = Money, Authority or DeoxyriboNucleicAcid (DNA) is worth because I can’t prove that TetraGramMaton = Four Graven image Magical/Material atonement = Hand Window Hook Window = YHVH = ElectroMagnetism + Weak Force + Gravity + Strong Force = Do What Thou Wilt is: 1) omnipresent, 2) corrupt and scared of being seen, 3) both or 4) neither. I don’t even know how to prove that my existence isn’t a passing dream or something a little more real than an illusion.
How can any destructible member of the anthropomorphic species of primate or human race know if blasphemy is ever really possible or relevant?

If any man destroy the temple of God, which ye are then God will destroy you.

I think hank is right. C has obviously never b een sick enough s/he wanted to die.

Once your dead, there’s no problems for you. Everyone else suffers.

Believe me. I went the GOD route….He’s not there so don’t worry about it. Suck it up, be a man and take care of business ! Stop counting on a big invisible man in the sky to make it all work out in the end, you’ll only be VERY disapointed. Great Men and Women are Made NOT Born….Suffering makes you stronger and life will get easier as you get stronger. Man up and get er done ! Things will get better.

~Thomas

ok i was wondeering the same thing. Which i knwo i shouldnt question God, i found a verse that is, Eccleslastes 7:16,17, 18—16 Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself?—right there! God doesnt want you to kill yourself…

17 Be not overmuch wicked, neither be thou foolish; why shouldest thou die before thy time?

18 It is good that thou shouldest take hold of the one; yea, also from the other withdraw not thy hand; for he that feareth God shall discharge himself of them all.

and also, If you take your life, why would you want to interfere with what God has given you, he’s your maker, he has a better plan for your life then you will ever be able to make without him! Go to God! trust in Him!

I intend to take my life. I have pains that I just cannot bear anymore, and I have issues I just cannot forgive God for. I do not want to live in this body, constantly hurt and tormented by people, and God seems to be the one responsible for my pains. I cannot forgive Him, I hate Him, He does not care about me, all He cares about is integrity, honor, and the universe. My eternal destination and my weakness does not matter to Him. I don’t want to go to hell, but I just cannot take it, anymore.

I dont have an answer to where a christian goes after he commits suicide, but the Bible MAY give us a hint. It was said in the Bible about Judas Iscariot that it would be better that he never been born. not because he betrayed The Son of God, Jesus Christ, but because he went to hell. The only reason it would be better for a man not to be born is if in his afterlife, he went to hell. Judas committ suicide and went to hell. Wheather he went to hell because of his suicide or not… i dont know… all i know is he is in suffering day and night for all of eternity for some reason. It could be becuase of suicide and it could be becuase he didn’t truly believe in God. Noone will EVER know the answer to this question for sure, so if someone tells you that they are 100% sure of where someone goes, don’t believe them…. even though they say they know, they really don’t cause noone knows God’s ultimate plan. Don’t take the chance of suicide, even if you are 99.99999% sure that you will go to heaven, is it really worth the risk??? less than what, 80 more years of unhappiness (and thats at pretty much the highest end) and then an eternity of happiness, or just go ahead and end it now and risk being in hell, with satan, never to see any family, never to see a smile or receive a hug from that loved one ever again, just to be stabbed, burnt, thirsty, hungry, lonely, AWAY FROM GOD, not just for a day, week, month, year, or lifetime, its FOREVER, really think about that, you will never be happy again and never be able to escape it no matter what you do or how hard you try… if you think you hate life now, just wait till your in hell… if your a christian, please stick it out, if your not, find God, i PROMISE he will help you out. Trust me, i have gone through ALOT in the past year. 1. my younger brother was having seizures on a daily basis for about 9 months, doctors didnt know why. 2. my older brother was diagnosed with burketts lymphoma, meaning he had a 60% survival rate. 3. my dad was fired from his job that he had for 25 years becuase they were “restructuring” 4. my mom was diagnosed with sjogrens disease which is somewhat like alzheimers and a few other things, just mot as bad. 5. my grandpa was having strokes and after the last one, he said he didn’t wanna be kept alive if he had another one. 6. my grandma now cannot feel anything below her waist becuase of her neuropathy 7. my other grandpa just recently died from his multiple myloma (a type of cancer) along with his alzheimers and parkinsins. but guess what??????? my brothers cancer is now gone, my other brother was diagnosed with POTS and since being treated, hasn’t had another seizure, my grandpa hasn’t had any more strokes, my grandma is gaining feelings in her leg back, my dad found a new job that is now paying more than his old, and my mom isn’t showing any severe signs of the disease… we all trusted in God and he fixed almost all of the problems. If you just believe in him, he will help you get through this. never give up… he loves you alot… trust in him and things will get better… i promise. i hope i helped you in some kind of way and i hope that you don’t make the decision to end your life. i hope to one day see you in heaven with a smile on your face hugging your family and friends. ENJOY YOUR LIFE because you only have one.

I’ve thought about it many times, suicide that is, but like most people I think what I would leave behind. I think it would be so selfish on my part to do it. When I really look at it, there are so many people out there in the world that love me, I can only imagine the pain I would cause them. The only thing I can say is that, all you really need to do is feel God’s Love just once and you will never forget the feeling. No matter what we do, God still loves us. Think about what it takes to give yourself over to him and let him take control of your life. You may not always like what he has in store for you but if you can feel his love you will only want more of it.

If you will go to I Samuel 28: 3, 15, 19, and I Samuel 31:1-6. In I Samuel 28:3 it says that Samuel was dead. We know that Samuel went to ‘Heaven’. In 28:15 Saul indicates to Samuel (whose spirit was talking with Saul) that he (Saul) was in great distress. In 28:19 Samuel tells Saul: “Moreover the Lord will also give over Israel along with you into the hands of the Phillistines, Therefore, tomorrow you (Saul) and your sons “WILL BE WITH ME” (Samuel). In I Samuel 31:1-6 these verses indicate that Saul killed himself, but that his sons died of battle wounds. I love all these comments from people who say that if you commit suicide you go to Hell. Well, evidently after Saul and his sons’ deaths they “were with” Samuel (In Heaven)as Samuel predicted. Now, Saul did not have the blood of Jesus Christ as we do today. Salvation was not earned nor deserved by any man or woman, it was a gift given by Grace of the Lord through Christ Jesus. If we can’t earn our Salvation by works and good deeds, then we can’t lose it by works and bad deeds! I.E. Suicide. What does happen to a Christian is that Heavenly rewards are lost as a result of suicide, but not the eternal salvation. If Saul didn’t go to Hell because of his suicide, well, how can anyone who has Christ within them go to Hell as a result of suicide? Hope all those legalistic so-called Christians learn something here.

What if you have zero friends and family, you hate your job,have no one to talk to and sit at home alone every single night. I wont be passing any pain off to anyone. Everything will continue on as usual, where is my motivation not to do so?

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son,that whosoever shall believe in him shall not perish but have everlasting life John 3:16,If you were the only person on the face of the earth god would have still sent his son to die for you,thats how much he loves you,jesus tells us as christians we will have our trials and trebulations,and he says dont fear for i have overcome the world.You see the problems your faceing is because of satan,dont give satan the victory over your soul by commiting suicide,give your whole life and your problems to jesus and let him use them to glorify the father,then you will soon discover what an awesome god we serve,god will force nothing on you,what he offers is the gift of eternal life as a gift,but in order for it to be a gift we must accept it right,god gives a choice either take the gift of life or reject it.The reason we have all these bad things come into our lives is because of sin,do you want to be saved and be washed clean of your sins and let jesus to take care of these problems your haveing? If so pray these words and mean them from the heart. DEAR LORD JESUS,I KNOW IM A SINNER,I KNOW WITHOUT YOU IM LOST,FORGIVE ME OF ALL MY SINS,COME INTO MY HEART AND LIVE,TAKE CONTROL OF MY WHOLE LIFE,I BELIEVE FATHER THAT YOU SENT YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON TO DIE ON THE CROSS TO SAVE ME FROM MY SINS,AND THAT YOU ROSE HIM FROM THE GRAVE 3 DAYS LATER AND RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT I ACCEPT JESUS AS MY PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR AMEN. If you prayed this prayer and meant it from the heart you are saved,please contact someone at a local church and share with them your decision to accept jesus,they will help you in so many ways.Jesus will take away those problems and suicidal thoughts your haveing.Thats a promise from me.I dont know you but god does and he loves you. Will you accept him today and let him give you eternal life? or will you let satan have the victory?

Kedrick has the maost accurate explanation hitherto. In the book of John, Jesus says that he who loves his life will loose it and he who hates his life in this world will surely find eternal life. When Jesus was tempted by Satan, he offered him the world. You cannot give something that is not yours. Furthermore, in the book of John when Jesus told his disciples where he was going, he told them he would send the Holy Spirit in his stead, and he could not give the world to them due to the fact that it is owned by Satan. He said, by he who is not in me, and me not in him, meaning Satan. This is indeed a prison planet, with the Trinity as the only thing good for us to experience, not this retched world system of Satan. God destroyed us once in Genesis, and we are going to die in the book of Revelation. To kill oneself and commit your spirit to our Fahter in the name of his son Jesus Christ, shows great love of God and hate for this world. If we all commited suicide, we would save Jesus from doing what he is going to do to the earth anyway. Anyone who wants to live is doing it for pretentiuos and egocentric reasons. All you people who are pro life, why do you really want to live? To have one more date with a girl, one more kid, another meal, one more drink. Are you really living for God or your own needs?

I am thiking suicied. i never thought my life would turn out the way it has, never in my wildest dreams. I suffer from depression and have tried everything. I always seem to fall short in life no matter how hard I try. I am not happy. I do consider others feelings about me if I take my life. But I think they will get over it. I have told my own father and he does nothing. Sometimes I feel that I was put on this earth to pay for my sin in a previous life. I know that sounds far feched.
Bt I can’t think of anything else. Plain and simple, I am just a failure in everything I do. I just can’t live like this knw more. I have been thinking of suicide for 20 years.
Because my life just plain sucks. I keep saying to myself maybe not this time, maybe things will get better, I have been saying that for 20 years. Nothings changed. I prayed to god for things to change, but he has never answered me. I feel there is no other choice but to carry out ending my life.

I THOUGHT THE ONLY THING UNFOGIVEN WAS BLASPHENY.SO CANT YOU ASK GOD TO FORGIVE YOU RIGHT BEFORE YOU TAKE YOUR LIFE. CAN SOMEONE TELL ME

My 20 year old son attempted suicide last June 2007. He did some majored damage to his throat, wrist, and chest. We are still dealing with surjuries. He has had six since then. This whole things destoyed me and his brothers. His dad is useless. I am finally going back into therapy for myself. I might
have post dramactic stress. My whole body is a mess. Needless to say, when my son saw me the first time after a six hour surjery, he said, “Mom I saw the light!!” He was going straight to heaven! How many 20 year olds know about the light? My sosns are raised catholics

My husband killed him-self with a gun on Septmeber 18, 2008 and I found him. He wasa good-man only 46 years old and he never had major depression. He believed in God and I know he is heaven and I know God forgived him because he was sick. I went to therapy to get help and I still want to blamb my-self and it is not my fault- I pray one day I will get better- ANY SUGGESSTIONS

I have lived my entire life for others! Even at the youngest age I remember trying to intervene between my mother and psychotic father. Latter trying in vain to make up for all the unhappiness in my Mum’s life. Finally taking care of her in illness and spending every moment with her possible while on her deathbed. I am alone now- no purpose-a deadend job-no love. I honestly believe it’s time for me to go-move on. What I am living isn’t life, it is a void. God, the merciful, must forgive such a person as I

I THINK GOD DOESN’T PUT MORE ON OUR PLATE THAN WE CAN TAKEIV’E LIVED WITH AMAN FOR OVER 22YEARS GOT MARRIED NOW WE DON’T TALK HAVE SEX WE JUST PASS EACH OTHER AT NIGTH WHEN HE GOES TO HIS OWN BED ROOM. I HABVE ASUCH ASS JOB AT FEDEX 2HOURS A DAY. MY GROWN CHILDERN STILL LIVE AT HOME AND SIT ON THERE BUTTS TILL BED TIME. I’M CATOLIC I WAS ALWAYS TOLD GOD FORGIVES ANY ONE WHO ASKS FOR IT I HATE MY LIFE IT WOULD BE CHEAPER NOT TO BE A LIVE FOR THIS MESSED UP FAMILY AND CRAPY LIFE

Robinrdumasbeaty do you believe that God has a plan for your life? Last night my sons friend commited suicide. He thought he had no one loved him. He wanted that more than anything. He felt total hopelessness and it caused him to end it all. How can a young man get to this point at the age of 20? and how could he be so wrong and about the love that people had for him. It is their fault? I don’t think so. We are responsible for our own actions. The way we handle things. God had plan for this young man. Jeremiah 29:11 says that God has plan: to give you hope and a future,to prosper you, not to harm you. So why do so many not believe. Why do they focus on themselves instead of others. If you helping other people it takes your mind off of your self. Soon you forget how bad it is because there’s always someone else that going through much more. Doesn’t take any effcrt to find these people, they are every where just look around and quit focusing on
yourself. Why do settle for less than what God has for them…. Why are allowing you grown children to sit or lay all day. Tell them this it. Get up or get out. I know it’s not easy but something has to be done. Tell them youre starting over and that some changes are going to be made. Like it or not. As far as your husband tell him that you love him but it to has to change. Ask God for help. Are you praying every day for your marriage to be safed? I went through this I know the power of prayer. It doesn’t have to be some long lengthing prayer with a bunch of thee and thou…. Just do it

i noticed a lot of people here quoted the bible, but doesnt it feel rediculous that you would quote a book that has been rewritten thousands upon thousands of times?

No brandon, it doesn’t feel ridiculous to quote a book that has been rewritten thousands upon thousands of times. Because that book was written by the Holy Spirit who is the living, breathing spirit of God. And because of this the words of the Bible are Alive. They are truth. That is one reason why there will always be controversy over the word of God. In the NIV version of the Bible in the Gospel of JOhn, it says 1:1 “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was God.”

Listen Zach, you will affect someone if you kill yourself. You could talk to someone somehow. You don’t have to be alone every night with noone to talk to. I think about suicide. My family is dead. I have a dead end job. I suffer from depression and on and on. I survive by doing something for someone, even if they don’t appreciate it. I talk to others about myself whether they like it or not, and most can relate and appreciate me opening and allowing them to share as well. Tomorrow…do something for someone, anyone. Join a group, call SOMEONE, do something besides contemplating suicide. If you are brave enough to kill yourself, be brave enough to face tomorrow. You never know.

I have suffered with depression and suicide for a long time. I have thought about whether or not I will go to heaven. All I can hope for is my faith in God. I know he is real and he understands the pain I am in. People tell me they know how I feel and I should just let go of things. Unless you have experienced the pain that torments me everyday, then you can’t possibly understand. How can you let go of things when they are with you all the time awake or asleep. God be with me.

Blaspheming the Holy Spirit IS the only unforgiveable sin as Helen said in 2006. Read your bibles people!

To #19 My son killed himself and I would not say it gets any better but you learn to tolerate it. As the numbness wears off you begin to feel more and you will have spells or periods of time when you become consumed but hang in there. Remember the good things about him do not dwell on what he did. They do not think far enough ahead to know the pain it leaves with us. I am sorry for you and your family. Take care………g

It seems to me that if you believe in God then you must trust God. If he wanted you dead then you would be dead,he has appointed your time and if you take your own life, you are disregarding Gods will.
I understand pain and hopelessness, but maybe God has a miracle for you. Regardless whether you live or die, I think God should make that call. God will know what is right for those that believe and trust in him. Of course if you don’t believe then you are your own final
and ultimate decider on suicide.

Suicide, such a simple word that is so profoud. I read each and every comment up to my own. THE ONLY REASON

Suicide, such a simple, but profound word. THE ONLY REASON I have not followed through, even though I have thought of many ways, is that God gave me a gift and who am I to throw it away. How ungracious I would be. I know I was meant to make choices along with His on how to cherish this gift eventhough it doesn’t always shine. I hurt often and ask the Lord to help me polish it so I can be happy and honor it. As long as God allows me this gift I will appreciate it and pray about how to share it with others. Val

What if you commit suicide to be closer to God? Like, you can’t wait anymore to be with him, to see him.

>>I intend to take my life. I have pains that I just cannot bear anymore, and I have issues I just cannot forgive God for. I do not want to live in this body, constantly hurt and tormented by people, and God seems to be the one responsible for my pains. I cannot forgive Him, I hate Him, He does not care about me, all He cares about is integrity, honor, and the universe. My eternal destination and my weakness does not matter to Him. I don’t want to go to hell, but I just cannot take it, anymore.

I’m fifteen. I’ve been a child of God since I was baptized as an infant. I was raised in the church. I suffer from depression and I think about depression pretty much everyday. I would never do it though. I don’t have the strength to hurt the Lord that way. He was tortured; he died for our sins. If someone dies for you, shouldn’t you live for them? It says somewhere in the bible(i’m not sure where at) when we were put in the womb,

God designed us a plan. You have a plan!

You have a choice! Don’t give up, please. He loves you! All the people on this blog saying there’s nothing left for you, please don’t. I lost a friend two years ago 4 days before chirstmas, because he was walking to school and a speeding car hit him. You have a choice to live, to try and to strive. No one can make the choice for you, but think about those who have died without a choice?

They couldn’t say no! They didn’t get a chance to say a goodbye…

There’s so much pain in this world. It’s sick and twisted. This is because the world belong to satan. (I read that somwhere) Don’t give in to satan,please. I have faith in all the people on this planet. I care.

YES, PEOPLE HE CARES!

I care.

You’re friends, family, people you haven’t even met CARE.

But most of all GOD CARES.

HE LOVES YOU HE LOVES YOU HE LOVES YOU!

PLEASE DON’T GIVE UP,
IM FIFTEEN, AND IVE CONSIDARED SUICIDE.

BUT TONIGHT, IM GETTING HELP.

I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I’M DONE LIVING A LIFE OF FEELING WORTHLESS AND USELESS AND NOTHINGNESS.

No, I wont kill myself.

Me and my friend are gonna have a “confession session.”

Too get better, u first have to admit whats been bothering u.

if you don’t have anyone, email me.

you dont have to tell me your life, but im willing to listen to ANYONE in ANY situation.

We are all people. We all need help sometimes.

If anyone needs me:

x0x_amberlovesyou_x0x@yahoo.com

Don’t give up, he’s with you

the depression is deep … i’ve asked Him to take it away … He hasn’t … am i being punished??? i’m closer this time …

I have attempted suicide five times: twice with pills twice times slitting the wrist once trying to stab myself in the chest. I have also almost jump off a roof more times than I can count. I know the despair and pain. I know sometimes you think that maybe god has ignored you that you are not worth saving you are exausted too tired to go on. I don’t have some great wisdom to give no great enlightenment, right know I am walking lifes path in hopes of finding that out. The best advice I can give you is to just find a reason to live it doesn’t have to be anything big it be just finishing a book or tv series the point is to just have a goal. I started out with just the goal of finishing my anime series, but as life goes on you find more reasons , I suggest that when you find a reason write it down no matter how small or silly it helps trust me. Eventually you will find a bigger reason to your life mine is to help people who have been where I was.

If anyone is going thru hard times and you feel overwhelmed you can talk to me I have attempted suicide multiple times, am a recovering cutter, have been beaten and molested by my father and other things, I tell you this to let you know that I can understand many different types of pain, so here:

Fierce_priestess@hotmail.com

And remember just because someone has a bigger wound does not mean you are not wounded, no pain is too small to matter

God loves all things he created, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, non-believer. He does not create anything to then throw it in the fiery furnace. Read Romans 8;28, and remember during Jesus’ crucifixion, when he asked God to “Forgive them, they do not know what they are doing”. His killers were acting in the way they thought was just. They DID NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING. Just as a person who has died from suicide DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE WAS DOING. Take solace in this survivors. Those who are depressed and suicidal, please get help, go to the ER, call a suicide hotline. I do not know your pain, I only know that my brother died by suicide 2 months ago and my entire family is destroyed. My life will NEVER be the same without him and we had no idea he suffered so much. Please reach out, your friends and loved ones will NOT laugh or say you’re crazy, if they do, move onto another friend. YOu are so much more loved that you could ever imagine. My other brother may not even survive my brother’s death. i think my parents may not survive this. You don’t have to do it for someone else, get help for yourself. You will not regret it. You are loved.

My brother hung himself in my bath room three weeks ago. He was so quiet right outside my bedroom door, I found him in the morning he was there all night. He was beyond depressed, going through divorce, gambling, addicted to pain meds. He was so loved by so many people we are all hurting so much. He thought he was unforgivable. If you think you have no other option think again! There is nothing that God can’t make right.

Hello, everyone. I came across this forum while researching various methods of suicide.

Like many people on this forum, I too have reached the point where the challenges and burdens of life are just too much to bear. If I could see a way out, if I could see a light at the end of the tunnel, I’d have hope.

But I can’t see such light. There is no hope.

Like the most recent post (man hanging himself in the shower), I find myself standing in the midst of a devastated life. I was raised with Baby Boom-era values, went to college, worked hard when I could, tried to save, get ahead, life the ‘American’ life.

Now, at 45, almost 46, my life is a ruin. I haven’t been able to find a job in 6-years, after being laid off 2 weeks after burying a son my soon-to-be ex wife and I lost 6-months in-utero. Since then-countless applications, countless resume re-writing; all for nothing. Not even a single interview! All my years of work, learning, gaining skills and experience, college. . . For what? To end up broke, destitute as I am now?

In the last 6-months I’ve: had a breakdown which led to me assaulting my wife in front of our little girl. That was such a horrible thing for me to have done, that–in addition to all the other burdens I’ve been living with these last 6 years–I tried committing suicide and my sorry ass failed! As a result, I’ve spent 6-days in jail (in the backward-ass, police-state South), several days in the hospital under medical observation, wrecked my car, lost my license (thankfully I didn’t hurt anyone), have lost my daily relationship with my daughter, my marriage is ruined, I’ve sunken so deeply into debt with all the resulting medical bills and legal fees that I’ll spend the rest of my life paying them off, with no money to put aside for any sort of enjoyment of life–no luxuries here until I die!

With a DUI charge, the attempted suicide (How I wish I’d been successful!), losing my license, being out of work so long, being an African-American male in his mid-40’s (see the latest statistics about who is most unemploye? Black men!), living in an extremely stressful situation at my mother’s house, everything I do, say, think being questioned. . . Where is there joy? Where is there hope? I have LOST my hope, I’ve got too much to deal with, I want it all to be over.

I laugh with cold derision at all you ‘Christians’. So convinced of your (extremely flawed, extremely biased) Bible. Do any of ‘you’ really even know the real history of your bible? Or is it always easiest to use the end-all cop-out, “It was written by the Holy Spirit and as such is without error.” BS! Ever heard of the Council of Nicea? Which resulted in the literal ‘Europeanization’ of Christianity? Led to the creation of a Jesus with Aryan features (when there were no people of Aryan features during Jesus’ time–other than the Romans)? The documented biases under which the King James Bible was ‘translated’? So many Christians don’t bother to question their faith, don’t even know the real history of their faith, yet are so ‘knowledgeable’ and quick to tell us to ‘Give it over to Jesus!”

I’m sick of hearing about God and Jesus. I gave most of my life to ‘them’–praying and reading the Bible religiously from 1980 until the last couple of years. I lost a parent early in life, and I resolved then to always have ‘God’ be a part of my life, and not just call on that alleged entity only during times of loss.

But, you see: during my deepest, darkest, worst periods, there WAS NO GOD. There WAS NO JESUS. There was NO supernatural or Godly power that showed itself while I was in the midst of consummate misery. There was no healing, no peace, nothing other than a ringing, blatant SILENCE!

Yet I’m surrounded by the religiously brainwashed–people constantly telling me to ‘pray’ to ‘read the Bible’, etc. A bible I’m well-versed in and have read countless times (for all the good it’s done).

I have seen no proof of any God–certainly not any loving God who gives a damn about us (especially not us Black folks a.k.a. Niggers–who are so slavish about worshipping a God who loved Black folk so much he gave them a simply fantastic history these last 400 years). I’ve finally become resentful and hostile towards such responses. There is no God or Jesus for some of us. I guess, just like God plays favorites in the Old Testament, so too does ‘He’ have those who He really just wants to suffer (seems like more of us suffer than not). I guess if I were Jewish I’d be one of the ‘chosen’? Then again, Jews have never had it good either, so what kind of God is it anyway? Violent, bloody, jealous, destructive, ambivalent, absent, a game-player. . . That seems to be the sort of God Christians serve.

Anyway: I just tune that garbage out. Those of you content in your Judeo-Christian mythology, remain so. I envy you more than you can know! It would be so easy to put all my problems off on some imaginary being, waiting for ‘it’ to one day make everything all right.

Back to the topic: suicide. You ‘Christians’, you need to understand that for many of ‘us’, your reference to the Bible is like referring us to some comic book. Many of us can’t live in blind faith (and ignorance in my opinion), waiting upon some (absent, game-playing) God to intervene and stop the pain and suffering.

For some of us, talk is emptiness. There is no way out, other than death. As for those who are left behind? One thing I’ve learned–life goes on. They adjust, they adapt. Am I to live another 20-30 years in misery and poverty? Paying off debt, never having any sort of life? My dreams have been shattered and I can’t see any point of living in what is essentially going to be indebted servitude until I die.

This is not the life I anticapted, not the life I worked for, not a life I am willing to accept. Apparently I’m useless to the workforce, so I haven’t any hope of getting my life back on track (money plays a huge part in life). In the last year, tons of people are finally experiencing the frustrations and loss I’ve been living with for 6 years now (with no end in sight). I hope all of them have better luck than I have getting jobs.

You tell me: how am I supposed to live? On what? How am I supposed to give up the values, aspirations and expectations of a lifetime and be content doing ‘whatever’ just to keep going through these oppressive days?
No light ahead, no sense of hope? The Langston Hughes poem asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” I am what happens; people like me who say, “To hell with this cruel joke (life)!”

I don’t know a great many things. But what I DO know after living through all of this hell of the last 6-years: you ‘Christians’ can take your Bible and theology and, well, I’m sure you know where it can go. . .

Life is difficult. For a great many humans, it’s an awful, depressing, cruel joke. There is no rule saying we must live failed lives. We do what we must to end our pain.

Listen, This is simple, just ask Jesus,God, and the holy sprit to fix what ever mess your in, or ask them to take your life, just do ask them with a open mind, and listen to your enterself, that’s where they/He will speak to you, and by the way, if you seem to hear alot of words, that’s because he as alot to say, it may take hours for you to get his reasoning. The meaning for life is to fallow him, and to be with him later forever. Do not let people know what you pray for, if you get rewards fom man, you won’t get them from God…

My son took his life at the age of 19. At the time everyone said he seemed fine, always smiling and cheerful. He kept his true feelings hidden from everyone. I read and hear so many different things about people taking their lives, and that they will burn in hell for doing so. My son was a good young man. He lived his life fully, and loved so deeply, made lots of friends and was always smiling. I cannot truely understand or figure out why he would take his own life. He was brought up in a catholic home, kept a holy cross with him in his wallet and believed in GOD. After his death, I prayed, we all did, family and friends, to save him from purgatory and asked GOD to have mercy on him, to forgive him for taking his life. If my son was not meant to leave this earth, he would have not succeeded in taking his life, GOD would have sent him back that morning, my son would not have gone through it, but GOD took him into his arms, 6:30 am on February 23, 2009…

Been deeply depressed since I was little….been struggling with it my whole life….if I could have proof I’d be with God in the morning……..I’d be leaving tonight…..I hate life….even during the ups….I hate this place….we all are just dragging along!!!!!! God forgive me….I love you Jesus….

why is it deemed so wrong to kill ones self? we areall going to die, some before others, some “before their time” what does one man know better for you than you? This life gives us many beutiful things, but are they all just a form of punishment when they are taken by the tempter, like a child given a wonderfull new toy, to have it taken away for punishment, to cause dispare. What do we have do gain or loose in this place? If we leave this place with the knowledge of a loving god whom we have asked into our lives, then we leave this place as whole men who have a place with that god. I dont believe it matters when we leave, as long as we leave with that knowledge.How or why we leave is unimportant, we all take our souls to god…

As far as I am concerned, All religious piety that humans display stems not from a love of god, but from their charactor defective fear of dieing, and of course the malignant lie of going to hell. It really does not take too much curiosity to see through the treacherous and lieing tentacles of those three that have caused so very much detriment and agony to the earth and its inhabitants. Christianity, Islam, and Zion are those three, with at least half of the population of the earth as adhearants. You may think I’m a biggot or prejudice. Quite the contrary, for, at least I realize that it’s not the slaves but the tyrany of the written word of man that is to blame. Though, we are responsible for our actions against and treatment of our fellow humans and the innocents ( the animal kingdom ). One way or the other this is obviously a planet based on the idea of death as a means to life. How is it that god would find pleasure in the aroma of burning flesh. Those who can think will read of this in your book. If you think hard about it, you will see that all the love you have been giving ” has all been meant for you”. We cry and whine for ourselves, not for the deceased. What father would torment his child, no matter how bad he has been, eternally in a fire? What is it going to take for us to wake up? My wish, for one example, is that more people would be curious as to the thought, Just how hot is it at the center of the sun?

If destroying the temple which is our body is a sin, meaning suicide is the unforgivable sin, than smoking is a sin as well! It is a slow suicide.
I am suicidal. And all the different christions say something different.

I am a follower of christ and a survivor of suicide. I had suicidal thoughts for about 2 years and got help with my church, mental clinic, and family. God finally answered me and knew what I was going through in my hard time of struggle. His answer was hope….and found out that there is hope in hope for a better life. Watch the music video called hold on by Good Charlotte….really has a message for all people dealing with depression, anxiety, and suicide thoughts.

The bible says that God gave men the gift of “FREE WILL”. Maybe deciding if we live or die is part of that free will. We cannot add one inch to our height but we can end our own lives? I think that God gave men the power to end their lives so they could do it when they think they had enough, of course, we don’t do it out of fear of the unknown. I feel so much pity for humanity. We don’t know where we came from, we don’ know where we are going, and yet, we keep on living this so called life like puppets. One thing I must say, if there is a God He should be ashamed of Himself. He should be put on trial, for cruelty to children and disregard for all of human sufferings.

No one even mentioned the fact about people who have attempted suicide from reactions to medications whether they survived or not or are still forced by doctors to continue in treatment with those meds and how are they to cope with that. Is that Gods will.

God is the most kind of all..if you ask him to forgive you before comitting suicide maybe he could shed his light to you and offer you onother life..changes can uccur even at a precipies moment of our life..so maybe we could change our mind b4 committing this sin..to those who will..plz..try to speak to him first..and think it 75 tyms b4 entering the kingdom of hell in death

I don’t know who u r marvie anne but the only sin is blasphamie and you sound confused to beable to judge others the way you did and you really need to get into the word before you begin to give advice. God is forgiving and He is the author and the finisher His is the beginining and the end He knows my destiny and everyone elses who is concerned for their destiny and now matter how confused the master of confusion will be taken care of by God. If we could only grasp that we can take it one day at a time and trust and hope and leave it in Gods hands even though we are angry that it doesnt always go our way because we survived so many horrible crimes and adversities against us and begin hating ourselves and turn that toward God that is natural if you read psalms. proverbs is wisdom. romans shows promise and phillipians helps to teach against anxiousness by in everything prayer and thanksgiving. with what I have been through this was a positive turn in my life to write. So I know there is hope.

I am going to go home,… commit suicide. I honestly believe that my salvation depends on it. We all know this world is tainted by darkness, hence all the misery we see. I believe some people are darkened by this world to the point of total corruption, and yes I know no-one is beyond God’s help, but if we are so corrupted will we accept it? Anyway as I was saying it is at that point our soul is on the line, death of our soul or death of the body,…. what would you choose? If we fall to darkness we are dead to God, wouldn’t you rather go home to God? We all assume that in the throws of death we can not ask to be absolved of the sin,….BS I ask daily for forgiveness for the murder I am going to commit, I know he hears me, I know he understands the poison that flows through my soul, and those of you believe he would let me go into hell for choosing salvation? Suicide to end poison of the soul like a terminally ill patient is a natural death. Killing yourself to teach others a lesson is wrong but you can still ask to be absolved in the throws of death. Now don’t get me wrong I don’t advocate suicide I am just saying that God is love and in that love he will understand what drove you to end your life. Like all sins there is a clause of reason, like will you burn in hell for stealing a piece of bread to survive, when there was no other way? I don’t think so. Not everything is as black and white. Not everyone will burn for their suicide just as not everyone will ascend either. It all will boil down to 3 factors, 1 have you accepted Jesus? 2 Do you feel that you have no choice and beg forgiveness as you do it? 3 What was the principle factor in your decent into death ? I want to live I really do, I feel loss at all the things I will be missing out on, but those who live for themselves, those who try to hold on to their lives will lose their lives as Jesus said. I let go of my life to gain life. I leave a message to to others to fight the darkness, I show them what it has done to me. I was blind to what was happening to me, but now its too late fight it off. Some would say God will rescue me now,…. he is by my free will to come home to Him. I suffer from a spiritual disease that by my own will I nurtured, blind to what it really was till alas I have no choice but to die and purge it from me. Those of you who can not see that there is always an absolute answer, yes or no will never see the whole picture. I honestly pray right now that those who can be spared death by suicide be spared, and that those like me find Jesus at the other side.

I have been depressed a very long time. It may be a chemical imbalance, but that doesn’t make it any less overwhelming. I think about suicide all the time. I’ve planned it, and I have the means. One of the things that keeps me from doing it is that I don’t know whether you go to hell or not. Maybe that’s a good thing. Also, what if I fail and just end up brain damaged. That might be worse than my life is now. I lost my job 14 months ago and have only had 2 temp jobs since than that paid very little. I got an eviction notice today. I have no place to go, no one to turn to. However, somewhere deep inside of me there is still a glimmer of hope. I attempted suicide once before, about 14-15 years ago. It should have worked, but it didn’t. Perhaps that because God does have a plan for my life. Perhaps all this trouble is so I can help someone else who is going through something like this; so I can tell them that God will see them through this. God never promised us things would be “a bed of roses.” I know all of the 12-step programs have the mantra “one day at a time.” Well, sometimes I have to take one hour at a time. Suicidal thoughts are something I have to fight constantly. I believe Satan puts these thoughts into our minds, and Satan is very, very powerful, but he is not as powerful as God. God wants you to trust Him and sometimes He lets you go through awful, terrible things to teach you that you can trust Him. Completely surrendering your will is one of the hardest things for human beings to do; but that is what God wants us to do. I don’t know what I will end up doing. I believe in God, and I do not think He wants me to commit suicide; however, it is still my choice. You can only think of ending the pain and the relief you’ll feel when it is gone. Well, you won’t know the relief of the pain because you’ll be dead and won’t feel anything. I know that my daughters, sisters, and friends would be devastated if I killed myself. Okay, I guess they would be able to go on with their lives, but that grief and pain would stay with them forever. Is it worth hurting the people I love? I don’t know. I’m awfully tired of fighting this battle every day, every minute. I believe in God and I believe he loves me more than any human being will ever be able to love me. It’s awfully hard, though, to keep fighting. Well, we’ll see…

Hi. A very close friend of mine hung himself 4 weeks ago after suffering 20 years with depression. Although i am greiving for him, it in no way compares to the utter devastation his wife is suffering who now also suffers from suicidal thoughts. Any of you out there who is suicidal, please, i beg you to stay strong and not do it, this is not for any religious reasons but for life itself. I myself have tried suicide 3 times with the first being as a 13 year old taking 88 paracetamols that wasn’t found out until i’d collapsed. i was very lucky although i didn’t beleive this at the time. It is only now i realise how much i had to live for and no matter how bad life is at the time, it can pass. I’ve experienced depression during the last few years but i no it’ll not always be there and it can pass with help and support. I am a firm beleiver though that when your time is up, its up no matter how you die but it seems so wrong that people should commit suicide when there is people out there who are desperately fighting for life. I’m not particuarly religious but i have an open mind and sometimes think there is a god and heaven and sometimes think there is not. If there is a god and heaven then i hope that he does forgive people who commit suicide. I no i like to think that my friend has gone to heaven and he is pain free and at peace with himself. Stay strong everyone, surely at some point things will start to look up for you, there is only so much bad luck a person is dealt with

I lost my fiance Rick to suicide … I have prayed for him, hoping he made it home safely. Lately however I have found it hard to live without him, and I myself have thought about suicide. I am lost, I worry about him and I’m scared of my future without him. I feel there is nothing left for me here, I miss him very much, I live in great pain daily … I am tired.