Suicide

Suicide

All suicides go to hell! That’s as fundamental a catholic doctrine as the virgin birth. I am not trying to be judgmental here but it’s one of them I believe. I have never thought of suicide (I have wanted to die but never to kill myself), I am not even that happy a person but the will to live is primordial, it’s an instinct, a sixth sense if you will. Just recently, a disturbed young man walked into an establishment shot eight people to death and then turned the gun on himself and pulled the trigger. Wow! That chain of action left me bewildered, bewildered in my soul because although he committed heinous crimes, I can not help but marvel at the sheer guts it takes to pick up a weapon and take human lives even if they include yours. I can already hear you say “Guts?” I know! It’s almost like the perfect paradox because there is no greater display of cowardice as one portrayed in suicide.

Now the reasoning behind “Suicides going to hell” is that however you look at it, a person is committing murder, a great sin if not the greatest, if we are permitted to grade sins. Although like the rest of us the culprit is entitled to heavenly mercy, but he had no chance to request or receive it. As we all know, anyone who dies in sin goes straight to hell as purgatory no longer exists. The reason I believe murder is colossal is because I believe the universe exists in perfect harmony, the star systems in their place and the little rocks revolving them, even the black hole has its role to play however sinister it may be provides some form of balance. It is in that manner our own cosmos functions, from the sun, to our planet and then our nation and it trickles to the smallest but yet the most important of all universes’: the human family and person.

Every now and again, a baby is born and a person dies of old age, but sometimes it is not quite as poetic or timely, people die untimely(by my calculations) as I would not have it. I do believe that in that ruckus, the fundamental balance in all things is kept. You would agree that when you combine the extremes of all major evils; hatred, greed, selfishness, total lack of empathy for a human that we will brought to a position where we would not only conceive but also commit murder. It is at the point the universe is thrown off balance, when one person assumes the position of deity and takes a life. The very foundations of the earth tremble at such a sub-human act! Now the soul of the deceased goes to another place but not without living a signature on their assailant, forever ignominiously deforming such a being.