We’re told suicide is a mortal sin, but I wonder if God is willing to look into a man’s heart and forgive him under these circumstances.
The Father KNOWS our heart. Suicide is not unforgivable as a sin. What IS unforgivable is knowing the Truth, accepting Salvation, then denying Christ when you are asked to Witness. In the Bible, that is the only unforgivable sin I have read of.
Suicide is a mortal sin under the condition that the person knows that the act is a sin and, in his right mind and in control of his faculties, deliberately chooses it anyway,
Chronic severe pain causes depression, panic/anxiety states and all sorts of brain function changes. I think it’s charitable and just to assume that this unfortunate suffering man was being “pushed” by the pathology of sin.
If so, he would not be fully morally responsible for his act.
We must pray for his soul. He is in the hands of his merciful Maker, a being supremely just and kind..
My point was that you cannot "assume" the whole subjective weight of mortal sin in cases like this. Pray for this man.
By whom?
The sane folks that justify Samson's??