Is it wrong to want to die?

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A good solution: to someone who feels extremely dejected and depressed, you must help him, at all costs, realize that he still has his self-worth and he can get another chance to rebuild his reputation and career, then dedicating his future adventures to our Savior. Then he will not have to worry about “having outlived his usefulness” anymore.
 
I don’t think your problem is moral so much as it is medical. If you’re feeling depressed and suicidal, please seek medical help. Doctors can help you feel better.
 
Geist said:
Not a desire for suicide, just a desire to cease existing? Say, hoping while sunning oneself a meteor would come along, or a semi truck would crash into oneself while making a turn?

I found nothing about this in the CCC.
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CCC 2288** Life and physical health are precious gifts entrusted to us by God. We must take reasonable care of them**, taking into account the needs of others and the common good.

Concern for the health of its citizens requires that society help in the attainment of living-conditions that allow them to grow and reach maturity: food and clothing, housing, health care, basic education, employment, and social assistance.
 
I don’t know about dying but I very badly want to go to heaven. It suck that I have to still live in this world but I guess that is God’s Will for me.
 
I don’t know if it is wrong to want to die … but I do understand wanting to die … I have been ill for 25 years and there have been times that I have wanted to die. In coming home to my faith in Christ and our wonderful Catholic Church, I have started to pray the following prayer …

O most merciful Jesus, Grant me Your Grace,
That it may remain with me always
And persevere with me to the end.
Grant me always to will and desire
What is most pleasing and acceptable to You.
Let Your will be mine, and let my will
Always follow Yours in perfect conformity with it.
Let my will and desires always be one with Yours;
And let me be unable to will or not to will
Except as You will or do not will.
Grant that I may die to all worldly things,
And that I may be despised and unknown for love of You.
Grant, above all things to be desired,
That I may find rest in You,
and in Your heart alone may be my peace.
You, O Lord, give true peace to the heart
And perfect rest to the body and soul.
Apart from You, all is difficult and never still.
In that peace, In You Who are the one,
Supreme and Eternal God,
I will sleep and take my rest.
Amen.

God bless you and keep you in the palm of His hands.
 
Geist said:
Not a desire for suicide, just a desire to cease existing? Say, hoping while sunning oneself a meteor would come along, or a semi truck would crash into oneself while making a turn?

I found nothing about this in the CCC.
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Do you think that you are depressed? No suicidal thoughts, I hope. Do you enjoy life? There are online quizzes you can take, just to see if you might be depressed. Meds and therapy can help.

If the issue is just getting old, I know a number of elderly people in their mid 80’s to mid 90’s who are ready to go. Some enjoy each day more than others, but all of them seem to be ready, when the time comes.
 
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