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His mind was more. But it was being abused by Satan. As every human, he had the right to claim the universal offer of Christ (I know this isn’t Calvinist and so what, there are biblical references that back it up). But to outward appearance he declined, yet only God knows for sure.

Suicide as the final act is the evidence of an unconverted soul. We may say that hypothetically in the final moments between taking a poison and dying a person might be converted, but we know that this is really grasping at straws. Prior to my conversion, I've been in such a saddened state as to contemplate suicide, and I see now how God preserved me through that time, even before I was converted and still was rejecting Christ without even at the time really understanding that I was. God preserves his children before their conversion to Christ and never abandons them thereafter. The final act being suicide is hardly an act that honors God's Law Word, hardly the death of a true believer which always will glorify God in that it will testify to the fact that God did not abandon the believer in the hour of their death.

If we humor such speculations as the "post-poisoning conversion", think about it, we're a hair's breadth from thinking things like... well, though Mr. X was an unrepentant wicked man his entire life who murdered millions of people and blasphemed God right up to his death, well... perhaps in the last few thousandths of a second between his last blasphemous utterance and his actual loss of consciousness the Holy Spirit drew him to Christ in that tiny fraction of second.

If it were not for the act of suicide though, and his final actions did not reveal rejection of God for certain, then, by all means, we'd have no way to know the state of his soul, only God would know.

Certainly no one can claim that they did not have the opportunity to turn to God. God has provided abundant evidence for the truth of Christ and the Gospel, the Word of God, is spread throughout the world; if we reject Christ we have no one to blame but ourselves.