The Catholic Church teaches that one goes to hell if he / she commits suicide.  Other Christian churches have different viewpoints depending on the church.

I ran into a woman this weekend at a Christian function who shared with our group that her mom committed suicide a few years ago and she had been trying to deal with it.  I tried to pull her husband aside and suggest that there is redemption beyond the grave (the words used in the original language of the bible do not suggest forever, just long periods of time - not to mention Bruce's work along with others).  He seemed noncommittal.   Its depressing and distressing for many, many people left on earth after a suicide to think that there is no possibility of redemption for ever.

I just think they are hipicritical on this topic.

I dont believe the catholic church either about going to hell if you commit suicide , people what commit suicide is usually because they cant see any other way out ,this is a harsh world and some people suffer very badly and find it hard to cope anymore .DEANNA

Suicide may be committed under many different guises.  Some do it fast, some do it slow.

Do those who slowly kill themselves through their own life choices go to hell?

Hell is where you find it.  Some people prefer their own hell to another's heaven, some who post on this site.

Love is Real, and we all find our way to love in the end.  That's the end and the beginning of the story for each of us.

love, blink

M,

I totally agree.  Hell is a place where the darkness can even seem bright.  How do we know when we are in a self-imposed hell, here or in the hereafter?

How do we lift the veil from our own hearts?

We can call out to God, angels, other human beings and even to our own selves.  Are we a self-created black hole of destruction?  Is the star collapsing quickly or slowly?  How do we know?

We only KNOW what we DON'T know.  Opening the mind and the heart, expanding our thoughts, creating new visions for ourselves, admitting that there is a greater and more HUMAN way to live is the only way to escape hell. 

All of us can find LOVE,

and it can find US
when we least expect it.

It is here, there, and everywhere, as the song says.

love, blink

Hi guys-

I've had various reports of suicides during past life sessions, and one report of going to hell. The suicides either went into a sort of unpleasant grey holding state, "I'm walkng on a cold grey path with very little light. I'm all alone." Or they just popped back to the world, and in every case they picked up where they had left off in the prior life. Many of them had superior resources, though, so they gained a little.

The one hell scene reported to me was of souls so arrogant, uptight and rejecting that they refused to acknowledge that anything else existed, much less a loving God. Sounds like loss of heaven through pride - to rule in hell instead of serving in heaven.

The one theme I see going through this is that suicides and hell-related beings seem to be identifying with negative emotional states.

I find it hard to imagine that a person could be happy and loving and yet go to hell. Maybe 2000+ years of hand copying by less than enlightened scribes has led to a little distortion here - perhaps Divinely intended so that folks like us might consider it.

d

It really doesn't make sense that a God who has infinite love and wisdom, would make it so that a person who commits suicide, would end up in hell for all of eternity.

Some of them probably get lost in their own darkness for a while, but eternal punishment, no way.