Consequences of suicide

[David1967]

Curious as to what different religions teach on the subject of suicide. What are the consequences as taught other than the obvious that a person dies?

 

[Nietzsche]

Depends on how. You take your life by strapping grenades to your chest and running into a crowd of people who don't like you screaming "Sieg oder Walhalla!" and odds are you'll end up there(Valhalla). On the flip side, take your life at sea and you'll probably end up with Ran and her realm. Pick something more...somber, and you'll likely go to Hel(the actual Hel, not the horribly renamed Gehenna) a place of soothing quiet.

Now, I imagine there's some way to kill yourself at get to Nastrond, but I also imagine that has more to do with just how big of a cowardly prick you were in life. Brave pricks still go to Valhalla, though.

 

[Thief]

I was a Catholic in my younger days.....not now though.
but the main drift......off to hell you go.

I have seen a film....What Dreams May Come....
that plays the notion for the scenario of two people
the outcome was interesting

 

[David1967]

Depends on how. You take your life by strapping grenades to your chest and running into a crowd of people who don't like you screaming "Sieg oder Walhalla!" and odds are you'll end up there(Valhalla). On the flip side, take your life at sea and you'll probably end up with Ran and her realm. Pick something more...somber, and you'll likely go to Hel(the actual Hel, not the horribly renamed Gehenna) a place of soothing quiet.

Now, I imagine there's some way to kill yourself at get to Nastrond, but I also imagine that has more to do with just how big of a cowardly prick you were in life. Brave pricks still go to Valhalla, though.

So "HEL" is a place of soothing quiet?

I was a Catholic in my younger days.....not now though.
but the main drift......off to hell you go.

I have seen a film....What Dreams May Come....
that plays the notion for the scenario of two people
the outcome was interesting

I saw that movie. I thought it was excellent. Seems like it took sort of a Pure Land Buddhist approach in its depiction of a paradise.

 

[Mycroft]

As an atheist, I believe the consequence of suicide is that you die.

 

[Draka]

I believe in reincarnation with the goal of learning certain lessons and gaining certain wisdom until reaching a particular level whereas one can reunite with the Divine. Since each life has lessons to learn and wisdom to gain, if that is cut short purposely before all of the lessons have been learned then one must pretty much have a do-over to learn those lessons. One will likely reincarnate into a life that will bring them the same hardships and lessons to learn. This time it may even be harder. Suicide is not an "out", merely a "restart" button. At least, those are my beliefs.

 

[Thief]

and samurai would do themselves fatal....for honor

 

[David1967]

I believe in reincarnation with the goal of learning certain lessons and gaining certain wisdom until reaching a particular level whereas one can reunite with the Divine. Since each life has lessons to learn and wisdom to gain, if that is cut short purposely before all of the lessons have been learned then one must pretty much have a do-over to learn those lessons. One will likely reincarnate into a life that will bring them the same hardships and lessons to learn. This time it may even be harder. Suicide is not an "out", merely a "restart" button. At least, those are my beliefs.

Interesting

 

[Nietzsche]

So "HEL" is a place of soothing quiet?

Basically. It's also the name of the Lady who rules over it. Think Hades, but with a chick who's two twin brothers are a giant wolf and even-gianter-snake.

 

[Quintessence]

My religion has no teachings on the subject of suicide. All personal questions like that are governed by the individual's own code of honor - the character they wish to cultivate and the virtues they wish to uphold.

 

[David1967]

Basically. It's also the name of the Lady who rules over it. Think Hades, but with a chick who's two twin brothers are a giant wolf and even-gianter-snake.

Is she pretty?

 

[sun rise]

I believe in reincarnation with the goal of learning certain lessons and gaining certain wisdom until reaching a particular level whereas one can reunite with the Divine. Since each life has lessons to learn and wisdom to gain, if that is cut short purposely before all of the lessons have been learned then one must pretty much have a do-over to learn those lessons. One will likely reincarnate into a life that will bring them the same hardships and lessons to learn. This time it may even be harder. Suicide is not an "out", merely a "restart" button. At least, those are my beliefs.

I share those beliefs.

I would add that sacrificing one's life for another whether a mother for her child or a soldier to protect a nation from invasion is not suicide. And terrorists who blow themselves up for the cause will learn a different lesson in a different way.

 

[Nietzsche]

Is she pretty?

..depends on one or two things. One, the angle. Two, your appreciation of corpses. Or skeletons. Half of her body(sometimes split laterally, sometimes horizontally) is corpse-like or skeletal. Personally, I'd tap it.

 

[George-ananda]

Curious as to what different religions teach on the subject of suicide. What are the consequences as taught other than the obvious that a person dies?

Suicide is a waste of an incarnation and the person will feel great remorse in the afterlife (but will eventually recover). The problems the suicide person thinks they dodged did not go away as the suicide adds another level of remorse on top of everything.

 

[David1967]

Suicide is a waste of an incarnation and the person will feel great remorse in the afterlife (but will eventually recover). The problems the suicide person thinks they dodged did not go away as the suicide adds another level of remorse on top of everything.

"Brahman Alone Is Real"
"There is One truth, Wise men call It by different names."

 

[psychedelicsoul]

I don't believe God cares honestly... I think it's silly to believe God actually loves us

 

[kalyan]

Suicide in sanatana dharma/ vaidika dharma or now modernly called as 'hinduism' says that if a person's Karma determines that he has to live for say 80 years and he ended his life at 40 years, then as the physical body is temporary, he/soul/atma leaves the physical body and takes along with him the 5 subtle senses which are actually responsible for smell, touch, sight, hearing, taste...So what happens is he/soul have this subtle body and continues to experience hunger but he can't taste because the gross body is not there and so like he wanders for rest 40 years or more years endlessly tortured stuck in a different plane before the grace of god Sri Krushna falls on him and then only he is relieved and is given a suitable physical body where he undergoes a rebirth not necessarily a human, based on the karma associated with him and continues in cycles of life and death

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

It's a mortal sin and you go to hell. Really, they are already in hell and that state simply continues after death.

 

[psychedelicsoul]

It's a mortal sin and you go to hell. Really, they are already in hell and that state simply continues after death.

Hold on....

You believe being LGBT is okay under christianiy despite the many verses that condemn it? A sodomite, who is guilty of porneia (sexual immorality) which is a sin in the OT and NT is fine with god...
Yet you thing people go to hell automatically for suicide because the Catholic Church made up some concept of mortal and venial sins?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Hold on....

You believe being LGBT is okay under christianiy despite the many verses that condemn it? A sodomite, who is guilty of porneia (sexual immorality) which is a sin in the OT and NT is fine with god...
Yet you thing people go to hell automatically for suicide because the Catholic Church made up some concept of mortal and venial sins?

Don't derail this thread with your perverse obsession with LGBT people.

If you want to know my personal opinion, it's that this world is very close to actually being hell itself and it's because humans made it that way, and that I often want to kill myself, myself. If I were God, I would've wiped humanity out a long time ago. He's infinitely more merciful than I am.