Is it a mortal sin?

[Jenny35]

For someone to wish with all of their heart to have never been born and to hope to never wake up?

Just settling a discussion.

 

[OraLabora]

Mortal sin? It sounds more like it could be a sign of clinical depression, a medical condition. Is the person affected by this attitude getting proper professional attention? (S)he should be.

 

[Colorad007]

For someone to wish with all of their heart to have never been born and to hope to never wake up?

Just settling a discussion.

I’d definitely confess it.

 

[chimo]

For someone to wish with all of their heart to have never been born and to hope to never wake up?

Just settling a discussion.

I do not think this is in any way a mortal sin. This is more of a cry for help, for answers to be found, a cry out in desperation. You have to look at the person in the Bible to understand why those words were said. Yes there was someone who had said those words and his name was Job. Now there is no way that Job had sinned at all when he said those words. He was speaking from his heart and surprisingly the Lord God had accepted them because God said to Job’s friends that their words were rejected by God as false while the words of Job were spoken truly from his heart as the truth. You have to know what were the circumstances to make the person say those words. Look at Psalm 88 (Hebrew numbering) to realise this cry which you can make unto the Lord. Psalm 88 can be considered the Psalm which speaks perfectly the situation Job had found himself in. Here is part of that Psalm.

“From my youth I have been afflicted and close to death;
I have suffered your terrors and am in despair.
Your wrath has swept over me;
your terrors have destroyed me.
All day long they surround me like a flood;
they have completely engulfed me.
You have taken my companions and loved ones from me;
the darkness is my closest friend.”

Earlier in the Psalm this Psalmist said.

“But I cry to you for help, O Lord;
in the morning my prayer comes before you.
Why, O Lord, do you reject me
and hide your face from me?”

It is certain this person is crying out for the Lord as the same as Job. No, in the deepest mysteries of our sufferings the Lord knows of our grief and does not reject us even though we seem to think He does and we may wish like Job that we had never been born. It is not a sin to cry out to the Lord in such a way when you experience sufferings or hardships as such as these people. At least these people speak from the truth. And if someone says these same words as you had put in your post without any hardships or sufferings these people are not speaking from the truth.