Suicide

Grumpyoldwoman, your wee grand-daughter will be cherished. It wouldn't be right of me to say that that is for sure, but it's what I believe. It's all I need to believe, and it settles me that my own baby, who died of cot-death at 3 months is also cherished, wherever he may be.

Thank you Pheonix ..you are right of course.

I am very sorry to hear about your son..such a tragedy.No parent should have to bury their own child.

Our eldest daughter (Maggies Mummy) attempted suicide and it was ''touch and go'' for a while, but due to excellent care and no judgement from NHS staff she recovered.
If DD had not recovered I would never have believed that she wouldn't be in God's care.....she is such a good girl.

I used to love Dave Allen's ''May your God go with you''

My bro put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger, it"s tough, that was 2004. I live in London he lived in Devon. The night he died I had not spoken to him for two years but I woke up in the night as I felt there was someone in my room and they had touched stroked my arm. I'd like to think he came to say goodbye. Am sorry for the loss of your son, and if the lady feels she can't face this life anymore due to health deterioration. Religion or not I think there is another realm somehow. How else can I explain this experience.

I wasn't a member when this discussion first took place, but I do know that the catholic church had ditched the idea of both limbo and purgatory.
The first thing to make a crack in my devotion to the catholic church was being told when I was about eight that my very kind, loving aunt who had died of bone cancer would be burning in agony in purgatory.
I was an atheist by the time I was 12.

I’m not a religious person but I did do some research on this when my dad committed suicide. No one is waiting to punish us - or them.

We punish ourselves through regret and guilt.