Why would you come onto a Christian site and expect to find people who condone the act of suicide? And it isn't just this group that finds suicide to be selfish. It's a common belief that suicide is selfish.
It would make sense to come onto a Christian site asking for people to pray for you and counsel you about your affliction, and I am sure you would find many people willing to pray for you and talk to you about it, but don't ask people to condone you killing yourself.
Lil rush, I didn't come onto this site asking for people to condone suicide. I said I was in a learning curve of
living with cptsd and hoped to find support here. What I did question was the responses to the topic of suicide regarding some members who have expressed feeling suicidal. I observed that many, not all, responses were cold hearted, projecting guilt, shame and condemnation and not of love, empathy and seeking understanding. There is a high rate of suicide with cptsd, suicidal thoughts are one of the symptoms, one of many, many symptoms. I am a Christian, I have been on my knees for a very long time, only the Lord knows my heart.
You have made some comments out of assumption....such as ...."they should think about the people they are leaving behind" You are assuming that all people who commit suicide have loved ones and people in there life to leave behind. I would agree many do, but there are people who take their lives for who are alone, have no one in their lives. You can't assume that everyone has living parents, children or friends. There are also people who might feel that their lives are a living deficit to their loved ones because of illness. Another person disability can very well become an emotional, physical, and financial deficit on the people around them, on their loved ones and taking their lives might actually be an act of selflessness, not wanting to be a deficit or burden on others and not out of selfishness as you imply. It doesn't take away the impact that suicide would have on those left behind, but there are some situations where there is more suffering from a person living than dying. Suicide is a sin, but to say it is out of selfishishness, it is not always so, but it always out of suffering. You would have to know that persons life, you would have to live in their shoes, we are all a sum total of our life experiences and you can't say how or what you would feel or do unless you've lived it. I used to think like you about a lot of things, some things in life can change your perspective once you experience them.