[goat granny]

A very sad thing to have to do...but only God knows what drove the person to it. Mental illness is a real thing and the reader of hearts is the only Judge..

[Amerikan_Samurai]

I’m not Roman Catholic, but a Reformed Protestant, and I am not so sure that we should easily go the “mental illness/depression” route. Scripture is clear that things like suicide (ie. self murder) are sins that come clearly from the heart.

[Stayfrosty]

Its not always mental illness. Environmental and socio economic conditions can cause someone to take their life. I don’t judge people who take this route because their pain and suffering is over and its between them and god.

[tommix2]

Mental illness is a real thing and the reader of hearts is the only Judge..Our forty year old son comitted suicide. I am a Jew and suicide is the worst sin of all. He did not have any awareness of G-d. We let him down, we did not give him faith, although we thought we were when he was little. If a person knows is aware that G-d is here with him he will not kill himself, he will ask G-d for guidance. "Thou art the true judge" Dayan ha emmet.