RE: Do you have the courage to commit suicide in case if terminal disease?
April 10, 2018 at 5:56 pm
(This post was last modified: April 10, 2018 at 5:57 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(April 10, 2018 at 10:00 am)mlmooney89 Wrote:(April 10, 2018 at 9:55 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I'm sure I would probably want to, but I would try not to because of personal ethics. With that being said, I do think sticking it out until the very end would take more courage than ending it early.
Simply out of curiosity, is the personal ethics your individual ethic or is it because the Catholic church doesn't like it? Geez that sounds like I'm asking that in a snotty way but I swear I'm not.
When I attempted suicide back when I was 22 (I'm 29 now, you are later this year, as you mentioned, time flies doesn't it?)... a mental health worker on the ward I was confined to not only mentioned that they were Catholic, but they also told me that according to Catholicism suicide is the ultimate sin and that I was damned for an eternal life in hell. I asked "Definitely? That's it according to you? Black and white?" and they said "Well there is nuance but basically yes in most cases eternal life in hell. According to Catholicism an attempt for suicide *is* the ultimate sin. Perhaps the fact you are mentally ill will mean that God will be extra sympathetic because God's goodness is absolute and you will colide with God's grace, but yes the basic position is that suicide is the ultimate sin and you are condemned to eternal damnation. Not according to my own personal position as a mental health worker, you understand, but because of my religion."
They then grinned. I told them to fuck off. I literally said to them "Fuck off."
Fuck Catholicism, fuck anti-condom cults (effectively on moral grounds that's what Catholicism basically is) and I don't care what anyone thinks.
