Yet many people who commit suicide, do so when they are in an abnormal mental state: they are "not in their right minds." So sometimes the sin of self-murder is not fully imputable in terms of personal guilt.
Which is to say, you are not fully in control of what you do when driven by mental illness.
It's pretty horrible when a person has a good deal of repenting to do, but they never repent at the end because their suicide cuts off their last chance. Such a person is exposing himself to the ultimate horror and futility: the loss of his immortal soul to the outer darkness.
However, you don't know what was going on his mind. Maybe his last SANE thought was repentance. Likely? Maybe not. But possible.
So, bottom line, we can't pretend we know for a fact that he's in hell.
Since prayer transcends time and space, I will pray for him.
Exactly. The guy was nutty, but all we can do is pray for him, since we, unlike Francis, believe that eternity is eternity and the soul is immortal and in this flesh we will rise again.
Nicely put.
I hate suicide.