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But religion is not the only factor in per capita suicide: among Catholics in Italy, the suicide rate is twice as high in Northern Italy than in the southern parts. [4] Hungary and Austria have majority Catholic populations but they are number 2 and number 5 in the list of countries that have the highest suicide rate. [5]
Painting by Giotto depicting a person committing the sin of desperatio, the rejection of God's mercy, because while choked they are unable to ask for repentance. [1] There are a variety of religious views on suicide. Regarding suicide in the ancient European religions, both Roman and Greek, had a relaxed attitude. [2] [3] [4]
Other religious views on suicide vary in their tolerance and include denial of the right as well as condemnation of the act. In the Catholic faith , suicide is considered a grave sin. [ 68 ]
Catholic hamartiology is a branch of Catholic thought that studies sin. According to the Catholic Church , sin is an "utterance, deed, or desire," [ 1 ] caused by concupiscence , [ 2 ] that offends God , reason , truth, and conscience . [ 3 ]
Religious or laity who attempt to produce another creed. Religious or laity who assist in a simoniacal ordination (i.e., buying the sacrament of holy orders). Priests or religious who go into military service or politics. Religious or laity who carry off girls under the pretext of cohabitation or who assist in this. [5]
The Catholic Church opposes active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide on the grounds that life is a gift from God and should not be prematurely shortened. However, the church allows dying people to refuse extraordinary treatments that would minimally prolong life without hope of recovery, [5] a form of passive euthanasia.
The Sixth Commandment, as translated by the Book of Common Prayer (1549). The image is from the altar screen of the Temple Church near the Law Courts in London.. Thou shalt not kill (LXX, KJV; Ancient Greek: Οὐ φονεύσεις, romanized: Ou phoneúseis), You shall not murder (NIV, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִּרְצָח, romanized: Lo tirṣaḥ) or Do not murder (), is a moral ...
[9]: 25 In Roman Catholicism suicide is seen as a sinful act, with religious burial prohibited until 1983, when the Catholic Church altered the canon law to allow funerals and burials within the church of those who died by suicide. [7] Today, many current societies and religious traditions condemn suicide, especially in Western culture.