Because I think it's important for my friends to see the callousness of Roman Catholicism on display.
Suicide is a true sin unless the person is mentally disordered.
Wow. The compassion of the Roman Catholic denomination.
It is the laxity towards things like assisted suicide, euthanasia, abortion, etc. which has led to the West dropping like a stone.
You're lumping in assisted suicide with what happened to this teenager??
You appear so weak when you call in your little army - who are well-versed in disliking “The Roman Religion” and need no help from you. And yes, all forms of suicide are morally wrong - bringing great heartache to the people left behind and endangering one’s mortal soul (except in the case, of course, of mental illness). Sad to see you disagree.
Suicide, like abortion, like euthanasia, is murder, and failing to make that point is one of the things that leads to copycat acts and suicide clusters, to which adolescents and young adults are so pitifully vulnerable.
Please have compassion for moody and emotionally fragile young people who are endangered every time there is a suicide in their high school or college community --- and especially when the suicider is sentimentalized as being now in perfect bliss (which makes it sound like a win-win), or portrayed as a noble figure too good for this cruel world.
But I think many will will neither recognize the objective grave wrong he did, acknowledge that he has enhanced the suicide-risk to everyone who knew him, nor pray for his soul's salvation.
And you call that mercy?