What Do Different Religions Have To Say On The Subject Of Suicide?

I don't believe that God would ever punish a living soul because of mental impairment (such as depression) but if you are in your right mind and commit suicide, it is the same as killing any human being, and it is wrong.

This question has elicited many good answers. I agree with most of them.

I always have believed that suicide is self murder. However, I have been in a spot where I was not thinking straight and the pain was so great that all I could think about was getting out of the pain and attempted suicide. I was very remorseful afterward when I saw how my husband and kids reacted. I hurt them deeply. I never want to do this again. They believe I would have gone to hell. I don't know if God judges a person who isn't in their right mind that harshly, I'm not God. So I went through a period of self mutilation to take away the pain. This too made me feel guilty. I finally got help to stop. Only God can answer this question. Only God will judge us. Peace

I agree with Bickle.  If you have been "saved" before you would commit suicide, you will go to heaven.  In most cases when someone commits suicide, they are not in their right minds and God knows their hearts. An evil person who does not know the Lord and commits suicide to spite God; I believe that person would be sentenced to eternal damnation.  Since God is the only one who can judge each person, He should be the one to answer this question.

Catholic Religion

My religion considers suicide one of the worst sins one can commit. Killing someone else would be the worst.  

I believe in deep despair, and I understand that when such thoughts come, a person might try to rationalise suicide (maybe thinking that his/her loved-ones would be better off without them, or that they just want the pain to stop).

I could not really add anything to Peace's excellent answer.  Only God himself is the judge, and we as human beings cannot pronounce a verdict on how he will judge any one individual and most certainly are not equipped or authorised to make definitive judgements on whole categories of people who share similar circumstances.

Nevertheless, this is a question that is often asked.  One reason is that, the human condition being what it is, most people who live any length of time go through periods of intense difficulty, grief and even despair, some more than others.  The other reason, I believe, that people pose this question is that, in their hearts, deep down, they do believe that God condemns suicide.  If they did not, neither question nor answer would be an issue.

The only clear guidance, though somewhat indirect, that I find in Scripture is the story of Job.  Job after a series of great tragedies in his life falls very ill and is in despair.  He not only wishes to die, he wishes he had never been born!  His wife comes to him and advises him:  "Curse God and die!"  To which he replies: "Shall we accept good from God and not trouble?"  To me the inference of that "Curse God and die!" phrase is the acknowledgement that, as each human life comes from God, to take one's own life is the final and most extreme act of rebellion one can perform against God.  How God deals with that is between him and the individual who commits suicide, but most people do not expect to escape judgement if they curse God to his face!

The supreme tragedy of such a course of action is that, very often, the feelings of despair and grief are God knocking on the door of a person's heart asking to be let into his/her life, so that he can lead him/her out into the light of joy again.  The poet Francis Thompson beautifully expresses this in his poem, "The Hound of Heaven" of which I add Part of the final stanza:

All which I took from thee I did but take,
Not for thy harms,
But just that thou might'st seek it in My arms.
All which thy child's mistake
Fancies as lost, I have stored for thee at home :
Rise, clasp My hand, and come !"
  Halts by me that footfall :
  Is my gloom, after all,
Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly ?
"Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest,
  I am He Whom thou seekest !
Thou dravest love from thee, who dravest me."
This is well worth reading and I attach a web address where it can be read in full:

www.cs.drexel.edu

Please read this.  I have never come across anything that explains it better.

I try to keep in mind that the Bible does not contain all the scriptures written, so it's not possible to answer this with complete certainty. 

I am not Allah, so I cannot say what the final judgement would be, but in Islam suicide is NOT allowed.

Once,  I was so sick that for six days I was on suicide watch.

People claim that a person who commits suicide goes to hell, which, in its enterity, is false.  I confided in a priest (I'm Roman Catholic) about my suicidal thoughts and he explained things to me.  He explained that if you are suffering from a mental illness, there is really nothing you can do to control it, because you are suffering and its hard to control your thoughts, so you won't go to hell.  It's when people do it for selfish reasons, I think, or depending on the type of person you are.  In my opinion, people don't go to hell for committing suicide.  It depends on the type of person you are and what you have done in your life, not the method in which you have died.  My religion teacher explained this to me also.