Is murder forgivable?

[Zerg]

Theoretically speaking, Person A who was driving above the speed limit at night, when a car driving in the opposite direction resulted in a head on collison. The person driving on the wrong side of the road died.

Person A went into ICU and has to live with this incident.

Can person A be forgiven? Was it his fault?

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Murder is forgivable, including murders much more heinous than what you described. If you sincerely repent of your sin and firmly resolve not to do it again, which in the case of your example would mean Person A does not drive recklessly in the future, then the priest should grant absolution.

 

[adamhovey1988]

Why wouldn’t it be?

 

[stupidisasstupiddoes]

All sins are forgivable except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit,

There ara few sins that get immediate excommunication from the Church. Although there is a way back in afterwards (not guaranteed).

 

[Kei]

Would not this be manslaughter over murder?
But anyway, yes.

 

[Spyridon]

The case you described would not be murder - it would be manslaughter.

And yes, murder can be forgiven.

St. David the King and St. Paul the Apostle both committed murders which they repented of and were forgiven.

 

[stupidisasstupiddoes]

So what exactly would that be? Would you have to be some kind of satanist deliberately doing it or do some atheists do it often?

 

[Spyridon]

It’s the sin against the Holy Spirit, aka final impenitence.

 

[Zerg]

I like this answer.

 

[stupidisasstupiddoes]

Thank you for your answer, not to be pedantic but i know Anglicans believe that theoretically one could reprent after the body on earth had died but before final judgement. Do you know the Catholic view on this idea?

 

[Annie]

It sounds like the accident would not have happened had Person B not been driving on the wrong side of the road.

OTOH, had Person A not been speeding, maybe Person B would not have died.US Whenever someone is involved in a death like this, they feel terrible. For example, co-workers, friends, and relatives of someone who commits suicide all generally generally express regret for "not having some something. This does not mean that they bear some guilt or fault—they might, if the person confided in them and they just blew him off, or if they had bullied the person—but overall, no.

Sometimes bad things happen. We want to feel a sense of control over our lives so we try to think of what we could have done for the bad thing not to have happened, but it is just to regain a sense of control over things we don’t control.

If Person B is or becomes Catholic, he can go to confession, and know for certain he is forgiven. But but what will be more important is for him to reliquish the event to God, to, in effect, forgive himself.