I am, what most would call and 'atheist.' Even we think suicide is no good. Why are you so troubled? Talk about it, it usually helps and sometimes you can find answers.
The folks here have even better responses than I do :) definitely something to smile about!

Thoughts on suicide? My faith has been shaken a lot although I have kept my faith so going to help for suicide is not something I can answer because I don't really know what happens after anyone dies for any reason......I do hate to see...suffering and is to me the number one reason for suicide but to me we are going to suffer no matter what in life at some point......what we do with the suffering is up to us..........but I don't feel suicide is the answer although I can rationalize why some people would choose this way to escape.........

I was raised Catholic. Personally I have a hard time thinking God would condemn suicides when a person did it because they were suffering from an illness and they truly might not have known better in the moment because their depression clouded their brains with so many distortions.

That said, I don't think it is the answer.

I use to believe years ago that you would go to hell for committing suicide. I think that thought kept me alive many times.

However, after my nephew died, the preacher explained that he did not think God would send a person to hell for being sick. I believe that today.

My nephew was very ill mentally and in emotional pain. I wish he had not completed it, it devastated me. However, I understand how much pain he must have been in

. It still hurts though, even 12 years later. October is the anniversary of his death. I think that has had me bummed out lately.

Speaking only for myself, I have struggled with this question often. My Dad is old school Catholic, my Mom was raised Southern Baptist and I have 3 grown kids. I have dealt with thoughts of suicide on a regular basis for the past several years and have spoken to my family about it. My Mom would understand and believes God would forgive me. Dad would forgive me but doesn't believe that God would. My kids have made it excruciatingly clear that they wouldn't understand and the would never, ever forgive me.
Faith can be shaken or lost. If I ever cared about what God thought, well, that ended the day he took the love of my life from me. What keeps me alive is the thought of the pain I would cause my kids. I haven't gotten over or past the death of their mother nearly ten years ago and she didn't have a choice.
Every day I need to find a reason to continue dealing with the pain that I am in. It would be so very easy to just pull a trigger....then one of my kids will call or drop by and I promise myself, "not today".
I hope that you continue to find reasons to live your live whether it is family, children or faith. Whatever works, and if those things aren't enough, call someone, go to the emergency room, do whatever it takes, your kids need you to.
Just my opinion. Please be well.

I don't feel faith has anything to do with suicide. It's important to remember one thing and thats suicide is the point where severe depression becomes fatal. In other words, I define suicide as death from mental illness. Now, myself I've actually attempted it multiple times. I agree and I don't feel God condemns all suicides to hell either. I do feel however that while such thoughts don't put a person at risk of actual suicide. However, 90% of people who are examined after having such thoughts are usually diagnosed with an anxiety or mood disorder such as depression.
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i believe that you are an important person and your faith is an integral part of who you are but pain and fear and loss and bills and balancing cheque books r excrutiatingly a part of our make up as human beings and no matter what the church, doctors and even our phyc tells us this things dont come with a manual and it can hurt ten times when u keep hearing but so and so came out of this and they r doing great or just believe n u will come out alright. Forgive yourself for feeling what ur feeling and let that smile shine through. Dont give up no matter wht. Maybe u will laugh more tomorrow. Help a little girl cross a busy high way or post here n shine a light into someones darkness.

It would be so easy to just give up & just do it, but I think of all the people that would hurt, mainly my kids & precious grandson.
The depression gene in my family is very strong. My mother was severly depressed her whole life & attempted suicide many times. All 3 of my sisters also have depression. My mom's mom was depressed, as well as her dad. My grandfather commited suicide & I have always thought my dad was depressed. Now, I am worried that my 2 estranged sons are depressed. I have spoken with them many times about it & offered to get them help many times. Niether one is interested in getting help. I will be honest, I have never seen a counselor OR a psychiatrist. My mom abandoned us when I was 9. I always wished my dad had gotten me couseling, but he didnt believe in it. I was raised to NOT talk about your problems, or even cry about them. Certainly, we were discouraged from seeking help from a mental health professional. I have always just prayed to God ALOT & talked to my sisters/husband. I have been seriously thinking about seeking advice from a counselor. But, I think, I have made it this far without counseling, so why bother? This support group will help. It will help talking with others with the same feelings. God Bless you all, believers & non-believers.

My mother was raised Catholic and she used to always say that suicide was the worst thing you could do to people you love. I think she repeated that because she considered it more than once.

After treatment for throat cancer and while still in the hospital, she decided to "leave" by refusing all food and liquids. She asked her priest if he thought she'd go to hell, and he said "no, I would do the same."

I think suicide can be a rational choice, and we all should have the right to make that decision -- so I'm all in favor of assisted-suicide laws. But depressive thinking isn't rational, and I agree with jb143581 that suicide from depression should be considered death from mental illness, or the fatal outcome of the disease.

I'm not sure I believe in the standard "God" but I do believe that if there is one, he would not condemn suicides (for any reason) to hell.

I think about suicide all the time, I wish I was dead and free of this world so badly. I am a spiritual person but not religious at all. I know God doesn't condemn people for suicide or anything else. God understands. I believe in assisted suicide, and I also believe it can be the fatal outcome of depression. Sometimes the pain is just to much to bear. I know my life isn't worth living, other people don't know how bad it is. I hope to end it soon. Those are my thoughts.

heritic, PLEASE dont do it. I know how you feel, but please think of all the people that love you & would be devastated if you did. I will pray for you.

i have had so many thoughts of suicide that i lost count. the only thing that has stopped me was what if it did not work? would i be able to try again? i do not think that god is out to get you if you do things that are wrong. he/she as i was raised is a forgiving god and loves us no matter what.that is why we were given free will.I do not understand why ppl. like to spread fear all in using god as the reason to behave like they think you should behave. or live like they think you should live.if someone loves us that much why should you fear them? why would a god send us to hell for making a choise that anyone thinks there is no other options left and so desperate to do that..

I remember the first time I learned that someone took their own life. I was absolutely mortified. To add, the brother of the victim told me suicide is one of the most selfish things to do. I always agreed with that and still do, but it's different when you're on the other side.

I was raised in a Baptist church and still attend regularly but that doesn't keep the thoughts away. I'm not sure if it is who we are from birth or what, but depression is the worst. I always try to talk myself out by saying I could never do that to my parents. However, each time I do that I feel like it would be easier to leave them something to let them know they did everything they could.

I too wonder about how God feels about suicide. It is a sin and sins at forgivable but how do you forgive a sin if you have no time to ask for forgiveness? It's a tricky one. It's quite possible the only hope I hold on to sometimes. God's love is amazing!

Sometimes it is selfish in a way and sometimes it's not. Really not my place to judge someone else so critically when I haven't walked a single step in their shoes. Sometimes you have no idea the demons that someone else is facing or what their mindset is... nor do you have to live each day in their emotional, mental, or physical state. The pain of so many things can sometimes make it all just too much to bear. Labeling someone as simply selfish is an awfully narrow-minded assumption.

If I go that way, I know that it will be for the right reasons and that there will only be two.. maybe three people that it will truly affect. One of them has done nothing to really ever try to support me.. even less when they found out a while back that I was indeed scared as hell regarding the "possibility". The other is a good friend and is one of the only reasons that I'm still here today. I'm hoping that that person would understand and look at it as if I have just moved away. They both have so many opportunities and long productive lives ahead anyway, so hopefully it will simply be a sad event that they will be able to accept in time. There is one more, and as guilty as I feel, I have over the last year tried to disconnect as much as possible from them so that it wouldn't sting quite so bad if it were to happen. They have a family and young children anyway, and they live many miles away, so it shouldn't be too hard on them.

I have to look out for myself and for what's right for me. I'm not selfish...never have been. It's been an exhausting and very painful life for some of us.

no friends for me, husb abusive, little family, etc......

suicide: NO WAY

IF I commited suicide, the world would have one...and that is not going to happen