As long as we're alive, God has a plan for us to be here and make the most of it. God is not looking to punish us or condemn us. God is a loving heavenly father who wants the best for us. We live in a fallen world that is full of suffering. The best way through it is to trust God and have his help. Wishing you the best.

I think that is over the top and very offensive bridgie. You don't know the internal struggles some people face and if someone were to commit suicide it doesn't mean their an asshole and the world is better off without them. They made a horrible decision on impulse and to demean someone on one action is deplorable of you.
mal, no one person has the power to condemn themselves, we are not Gods.

EJ1: We are given the power of free-will to decide whether to believe (or not); request forgiveness (or not)...

We do have free will in life, you are right about that mal.

I can't believe the last few comments. I am sorry to you for them because they are ridiculous advice.

Bridgie101 must you always attack someone by calling them stupid about suicide?? And now you throw in the word asshole, smdh...This is supposed to be a board trying to help each other get out of the big black hole of depression not to keep them down there! Have you ever heard of the saying, "if you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all."

Jesus Gave His Life and His Will Over To God, Jesus Did As He Was Told By God. Jesus Died For Our Sins. Those Who Believe "God's Will Be Done, on Earth As It Is In Heaven", Have Faith God Will Give You The Strength To Live Through YOUR Cross Here On Earth Will Have Eternal Life. God is Love and God's Commandment Is To Love, To Forgive To be Forgiven. I Do Believe in Purgatory, Where Prayers are Offered for the Soul who Has Not Gone To Live in Eternity With God. And so I Pray "With Gratitude for Family, Relatives, Friends and Benefactors, Those Who Are Living and Those Who Have Died. God Please Grant Freedom to Eternal Life For Those Who Have No One To Pray For Them, Through Jesus Christ, My Lord and My Savior. Amen.

I don't. I believe that this is all you get. and if you throw it in the rubbish, more fool you.

Life is not a tragedy. It's a real boon and a surprise and a gift. If we think of all those sperm daddy had, and all those eggs mummy had, and how we had only that one opportunity to exist at all, then hey. what a feckin brilliant piece of luck that we won the lottery like this.

If we throw that away we are idiots. Just because we're unhappy right now doesn't mean we'll be unhappy in 2 years time, or 5 years time - or even six weeks' time.

EJ1 I most 100% do know exactly what it's like to be suicidal for prolonged periods of time and I speak with knowledge and experience when I say that it's only love of others, unselfishness and caring that keeps a person alive. It's only knowing AND GIVING A STUFF about how your death would affect others, without self deceit, without melodrama and romanticism, 'oh woe is mee I may dieeeee' crap. If you have a mother, then killing yourself is obscene. If you have a father, then killing yourself is despicable. If you have children and you kill yourself? well hey. They're better off without you.

To kill yourself MAKES you an asshole. Because it means you have gone over one step from being profoundly unhappy, to hurting others in order to get rid of your own pain. Your pain comes about due to what was done to you - how dare a person pass that on? How dare a person, so harmed by what has happened to them, go ahead and KNOWINGLY inflict that agony on another?

Whatever harm was done to you you can survive. You can grow beyond it. How does one grow beyond the suicide of a loved one? you can't. It's blocked.

Absolutely filthy to do it to other people no matter how you feel alone today and feel unloved right now and don't think anyone would care (world's smallest violin comes out.) How dare a person be that superficial and facile.

We are all tested in the fire of life. Life is not fun for a lot of us and if I sat you down and told you my life story you'd be amazed I was standing here today to tell it.

I don't speak because I'm ignorant. I speak because I have been through the fire, come out the other side, and I don't dress it up in frilly frocks to mollify the bleeding hearts.