Piano, took you a while, but still, no. We do not agree. I do not agree with you, and I will never agree with you and your current position. So you can look up words in a dictionary and see similar definitions. So you can look at the definition of a word in Latin. That's great, but the study of words in an English dictionary will win you no argument over Scriptural truth.
All of those things aforementioned have much to do with the events of Jesus, Samson, even Stephen (righteous), and then King Saul, Judas, and suicidal teens/adults (wicked) to this day. Jesus, Samson, Stephen, and others, differ in these areas from King Saul, Judas, and suicidal people today. We will look at each of these areas so that your confusion can subside.
Motive - The motive for consenting to death for the righteous and wicked is different. Jesus, Samson, and Stephen consented to their deaths out of the will of God. Jesus laid His life down for His sheep. Samson laid his life down for God and his nation Israel. Stephen laid his life down for the gospel and the truth. Notice how none of these examples took objects, substances, etc, to physically inflict injury/death upon themselves. Now for the unrighteous the motive is different. Saul took his own life by stabbing himself with his sword. Judas took his own life by hanging himself. Suicidal people today take their own lives by using objects, substances, etc, to physically inflict injury/death upon themselves, from guns, to ropes, to drugs, to poisons, etc.
Condition - The condition with Jesus, Samson, and Stephen, as you read above and below, included their earnest faith in God to keep them. Jesus was faithful unto death, as was Stephen, and Samson (Hebrews 11:13-39). In having faith in God, Jesus, Samson, and Stephen rested in the promise and hope of God. As for the condition of King Saul - he was greatly distressed, troubled, and spiritually destroyed. He had lost standing with God and was rejected, because he rejected God. Judas never was truly a faithful disciple of Christ, and his final betrayal was evidence for that. He did not have faith in God or Christ, nor did he look forward to the hope and promise of the gospel. After committing his crime, he was tormented by his guilt - rejecting the fact that he could confess and cast his burdens on Christ - ultimately which drove him to his suicide. Today's suicidal people are strikingly similar in their condition as were these biblical examples.
Spiritual State - The spiritual state of Jesus, Samson, and Stephen was in communion with God. Jesus: self-explanatory. Stephen, full of faith and of the Holy Spirit (Acts 6:5). Samson was acting in faith, praying to God, submitting to, and bidding His will. In Hebrews 11:13-39 we get an excellent testimony of Samson as a man of faith. Verse 13 says the all the people listed "all died in faith," evidence that Samson was full of faith in God at the time of his death. Then the list of deeds done by those of faith record they "subdued kingdoms," "worked righteousness," "obtained promises," out of weakness were made strong," "became valiant in battle," and "turned to flight the armies of the aliens." All of these describe Samson and his efforts to a tick. Finally, verse 39 concludes that these people "obtained a good testimony through faith." According to you, this is impossible! Samson - obtained a good testimony through faith? But he committed suicide right? Wrong, that is your misunderstanding and failure.
Now the spiritual state for King Saul, Judas, and suicidal people today isn't so bright, by far. God had departed from King Saul and became his enemy (1 Samuel 28:16). Judas is self explanatory...the Bible says "Woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born," (Matthew 26:24). And today, the spiritual state for suicidal people is similar to these. They have betrayed God, forsaken His hope, refuse to submit to His will, reject the Son as their burden-bearer; and as a result, they bear their own burdens, they live by their own will, they have no hope, and God has departed from them for their continuous rebellion.
Circumstances - The circumstances for Jesus included the fact that it was His purpose to lay His life down from the beginning. God had willed for Him to complete this task. The religious leaders were filled with hatred, plotted to kill Him, and sent to arrest Him in order to accomplish that. They captured Him, tried Him, declared Him guilty when He was innocent, and condemned Him to the cross. Jesus willfully consented to this and let it happen. Now for Stephen, the circumstances are similar: Stephen spoke to the Jews about their ethnic history (Abraham, Moses, etc). Concluding the sermon with the gospel of Jesus Christ, the crowds became engraged and filled with hatred, plotting (rather quickly) to kill him, which they did. Stephen consented to his death, knowing full well by continuing to preach the truth, instead of pleasing their ears, would engrage them so and cost him his life. On the eve of his death, instead of fleeing, Stephen consented and prayed to Jesus from Heaven. The crowd stoned him to death, and he died. Samson - again similar. His enemies were unbelieving Philistines, much like the Pharisees and unbelieving Jews. Samson was a leader of the nation of Israel, and destroyed the Philistines previously. They captured him however and were now using his captivity to honor their false god, Dagon. To avenge their abominable sin of desecrating a leader of God's people, chosen and sanctified by God, (compare with 2 Samuel 1:14-16), as well as sacrificing to their false gods, and to protect his nation from imminent Philistine invasion, Samson carried out an act of war to destroy the Philistines' temple of idols and slay thousands of God's enemies in the process. Fully consenting to the fact that this act would take his own life, Samson submitted to the will of God and prayed in his remaining moments (Judges 16:28-30).
The circumstances with King Saul was that he was currently living in active rebellion against God. Instead of inquiring from God, he sought out the counsel of a witch. He rebelled against God throughout his reign, taking plunder of cities when the Lord commanded him to destroy everything. Saul even killed God's holy priests in his struggle to murder David. His rebellion came to an end when he took his own life in the battlefield, by first requesting it from his armorbearer (who refused), and then positioning his sword so that it pierced him as he fell on it (1 Samuel 31:4-6). Later in Scripture we find that it was an act of judgment of God, through which God Himself killed Saul by determining the act (1 Chronicles 10:14). The circumstances of Judas include the famous act of betraying Christ to the Pharisees. After seeing the evil he had done, he attempted to return the money he received for the deed. Judas attempted - like King Saul - to repent in a worldly manner, not in the name of God, but in the name of the punishment and guilt he felt. Cain was upset not because when he murdered Abel, it was an abominable sin before God, but simply because "his punishment was greater than he could bear." So too was the case with Saul and Judas. These died faithless, unbelieving, and abominable souls. These circumstances describe in different angles those of today's suicidal people. They live continuously rebellious lifestyles, they seek other counsel besides God's (their own), they believe they know how to end their problems (by their own hand) and they reject the hope and salvation of Christ.
Nature - The nature concerning Jesus' life and consent to death can be summed up in the phrase - relied only upon God. Jesus didn't even rely on His own divinity; He relied on the Father. Same with Stephen - when preaching the gospel to a crowd with murderous intentions, Stephen remained in full reliance upon God to deliver Him regardless of what would happen. Samson relied fully on God as well, as you can see with his prayers, and his description in Hebrews 11. The nature of King Saul, Judas, and suicides today is directly opposite. They don't rely on God; they relied (and do rely) on their own hands and efforts to end their problems.
More - Concerning Samson: Samson's final valiant act mightily demonstrated that the Philistine celebration of their god Dagon's victory over God, His people, and His champion Samson, was futile. It served to testify of the greatness and omnipotence, not of Dagon, but of the true and everlasting God Himself. Consider the Nazirite vow of Samson's. If the vow was violated and the uncut hair became defiled, the hair would have to be cut off in order for the period of consecration to start over. The Nazirite would then have to dedicate himself to God again, and must bring to the Lord a year old male lamb as a guilt offering (Numbers 6:9-12). Samson's hair became defiled by his acts and was cut off by Delilah, but when it grew back, he received a new time of consecration as a Nazirite. As we can read, he had no lamb to offer God as a guilt offering, but he could offer up his life - and that is exactly what he did.
