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             Over 800,000 people choose to end their life by committing suicide each year (Perina 15). With such a high number of people committing this act yearly there is no need for a definition of what suicide is. However, with so many people deciding that it is better to "end it all" than to live another day on this planet, the word "suicide" tends to be a topic that leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Not only are the questions left for the loved ones of the deceased, but are also left for people who believe in life after death. Questions such as: Why would someone take their own life?, What could of have been done to stop this?, and the question most asked considering suicide: Where does someone who commits suicide spend eternity? Now the first two questions are ones that can only be answered by the deceased and as we all know after someone commits suicide it is too late to ask them "Why?" Or "What if?" But the third question is one that can be answered by the living. The unfortunate thing though is that most people answer this third question with an opinion, or with an answer that someone else told them to be a proven fact about where suicide victims spend eternity. By answering this very controversial question with non-biblical truths and assumptions, we get an answer that for years has been passed down from generation to generation (Aiken): That people who commit suicide are automatically condemned to a fiery eternity separated from God in hell. This is wrong for a couple of reasons: That answer is only an assumption and people should not assume that suicide condemns someone to hell (thesis statement). Not only is this answer an assumption but it is not what the Bible says about suicide and I think that before we start giving our opinions on where someone spends eternity we should see what God says about it first. Along with proving that the Bible never says where a suicide victim spends eternity I will also prove that suicide is not an unforgivable sin and that we as humans don't have the right to say where someone will spend eternity that decision can only be decided by God.


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1. All Suicide Bombers Are Not Al

... in the Fire of Hell eternally, forever and ever." A few days after Sept. 11, that quotation from a sacred Muslim commentary turned up on an English-language Web site called www.fatwa-online.com. There it was brandished by a Muslim scholar who argued that Islam could never, under any circumstances, justify the practice known in the West as ''suicide bombing.'' Suicide bombers, he seemed ... centers where the bombers were found and recruited. In the days after Sept. 11, it also became clear that there was no Arab leadership with the inclination or stature to call a jihad against suicide b...

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2. Dante's hell

... , some trees, a stream which all serves as a home to Dante's guide through hell, the great philosopher Virgil as well as many other great philosophers. Limbo also serves a home to other peaceful souls that can't make it to heaven like honorable Pagans and unabaptized Children. As Dante moves down we come to a level ... where there is no light, where the lustful are being punished for there betrayal on earth due to there lustful appetite. Level 2 of hell is home to many people who couldn ... skin with their nails all are affected by leprosy. This truly is one of the more severe punishmen...

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3. what dreams may come

... His dog was there, his children were there, and even his house was there, but there was still something missing. You see, when Annie committed suicide, she went to Hell. She is separated from her family and is lost in this dark pit of despair. There is no way out for her. Chris can't accept ... . Eventually, Chris does find his wife, but there is a problem. He only has a few minutes to rescue her, or he to would be trapped in Hell. The only way for him to get her out of Hell is for her to recognize who she is, where she's at, and what she has done to get there. He couldn ... into God and...

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4. What dreams may come

... . It's a horrible, difficult journey. Eventually, Chris does find his wife, but there is a problem. He only has a few minutes to rescue her, or he to would be trapped in Hell. The only way for him to get her out of Hell is for her to recognize who she is, where she's at, and what she has done to get there. He couldn't get ... means remaining separated from Him forever by our own free choice." ✠ What Do I Think? Many interesting views and topics were brought up in this movie that made me wonder, or question the teaching of the church. Little red flags went up in my head when the movie s...

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5. The Underworld of the Aeneid

... underworld for the souls who killed themselves is referred to as the "Field of Mourning." These are the souls who could not handle the hardships of life and, therefore, committed suicide in order to escape the pain. However, unfortunately as Virgil describes, "In death itself pain will not let them be" (Virgil 873). They suffer just as much in the after ... beyond belief since there is really no sure evidence, while others feel that there is something bigger and better than us. However, whether or not there is such thing as an underworld or a Heaven or Hell, humanity will always benefit...

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6. A Clean Well Lighted Place

... he has any potential to have a reason to exist. Faced with the ultimate nothingness, the old man tries to kill himself: " Last week he tried to commit suicide', one waiter said" (199). Ironically, the old man is saved by his religious niece for "Fear for his soul" (200). The old man sits "in ... of temporary suffering or "a place or state of punishment wherein according to Roman Catholic doctrine the souls of those who die in God's grace may make satisfaction for past sins and so become fit for heaven," according to Miriam-Webster Dictionary. When you start to bring in the spirituality of...

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7. The Hamlet Soliloquies

... an end to his sorrow; however, Hamlet goes on to say that "the Everlasting" is against "self-slaughter," or suicide. This drastic action would result in Hamlet's not going to Heaven after death. "''Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature. Possess it merely" (Hamlet ... life. The reiteration of words such as scorns, oppressor, calamity, dread, despised and weary indicate mental trauma. Hamlet's speech contains obsessive thoughts about suicide and death. His "representation" of himself as mentally unstable is an attempt to accomplish his goal avenging hi...

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8. The Porter

... who had expected that murdering the king and gaining power would be her greatest fantasy, but she ultimately goes insane, and driven by guilt, she commits suicide, just as this passage foreshadows with the farmer hanging himself. The second person is an equivocator in other words, a treasonous liar. The second sinner ... she sleepwalks, she is tormented by a spot on her hand reminding her of her sin, and is eventually driven to commit suicide. The second sinner knocks on the gates of Hell, and the Porter replies, "Knock, knock! Who's there in the other devil's name? Faith, here's an equi...

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9. Hamlet

... between his mother and his uncle, his indecisiveness towards the revenge for his father's death, and his overwhelming feelings of depression and thoughts of suicide. The soliloquies performed by Hamlet helped revealed this. It is obvious to the reader that Hamlet is angry at his mother and more so that ... he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage, Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed, At game a-swearing, or about some act that has no relish of salvation in "t-- Then trip him, that his heals may kick at heaven, And that his soul may be as damned and black As hell, whereto it goes" (III ......

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