2282 If suicide is committed with the intention of setting an example, especially to the young, it also takes on the gravity of scandal. Voluntary co-operation in suicide is contrary to the moral law.
Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide.
There is a good chance your father maybe in Heaven.2283 **We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. **By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives.
First, my heart goes out to you for your loss. I’m going to ask rhetoric questions (that I don’t expect answers to because it’s none of my business): did he leave a note or said things shortly before he died that can suggest that he was sorry for some of the things he might have done, for leaving his family behind, for not being the best father (if such was the case), that he might have reconciled with God etc. But the real answer is we don’t know. We’re obviously not God, we don’t see the real hearts of people, only their acts or their words. I’m sure there are people with God that we thought were lost, and the other way around, too.My father recently committed suicide. I know that there is belief that even suicide souls can go to Heaven however I am confident that the acts he committed while still on Earth would not have permitted him to go there. Thoughts?