And yet it’s odd how pragmatism can come up with answers that are more “conservative” (however we need to ask, conserving what?) than religion.
The modern approach to suicide attempts is more akin to the older approach to abortion. The one who assists in it (except for a few sad modern exceptions) gets in deep criminal dutch. The one who attempts, becomes subject to civil law concerning sanity, at most.
I would think it should rightly be treated as a madness. Theologians could have a deeper insight, a madness caused by an acute loss of love, and as fundamentally illogical as suicide.
yeah. I’ve known gangsters and women who had abortions.
of the women who had abortions, 2 were mentally devastated for years, the other one had serious psychiatric problems to begin with.
the gangsters, they never seemed mentally devastated by some pretty bad acts they committed. in fact, they would laugh about them.