I’ve met and nursed people who’ve attempted suicides. You talk to them for five minutes and you see right away they are not right in the head. There’s no way there’s full knowledge in the ones I’ve met. Its actually quite hideous watching them try and work through the pros and cons and refusing to beleive they hold value or worth, or that suicide is a viable escape from their problems - from the voices. One woman told me she felt blessed that the voices only told her to kill herself and no one else, she said the day they’d start telling her to kill others, that’s when she’d take her own life in an attemp to save others.
I’ve known people in my personal life whov’e done it, and some without any warning or sign. THose are the worse, because its hard to imagine them being so successful at hiding such inner turmoil.
Yet, I’ve also known people who’ve taken their lives/attempted to do so, because of some trouble they were in with the law, so serious that they’d be facing a long time in prision, shame from public et cetera.
Basically there’s plenty of reasons why a person takes their life, and I’d imagine the majroity are committed because of hideous mental illness.
God is not an ogre. He knows the whole story. The state of that person’s mind and soul when they take their life. We can know some of the story, from their behaviour, from a suicide note, but we can never know what God knows.
Some would be in Hell, some will be Heaven, some will be in Purgatory. Just trust them to the mercy of God. He knows the whole story. We don’t. In fact, the majority of the people I’ve met who’ve attempted suicide or have killed themselves, they probably didn’t even know the whole story!
