Your Thoughts.

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Going out on a limb here from the religious perspective.  Being RC and having gone through the nuns, brothers and priests.  I'm not a church goer but in answer to the original post, Jesus died on the cross to save us all, weel okay, but his death would be considered a suicide and he knew the outcome.  He had a choice if you believe that part of the bible.

So my take is he knew the pain and suffering he would have to go through and his ultimate death.  It is written he could have saved himself at anytime.  But he chose death by Crucifixion.  Is that a form of suicide?

Later consider those that chose death in his name. eg:  The crusaders.  Willing to die.  Is that suicide?

My thoughts,

Bally

That is a hard question to answer, with the possibility of many right answers.

Suicide is injuring yourself with the "intent" of causing death.

Personally I think death at hands of others, even if you knew death would be the result if you took a particular action, or failed to take an action, would not be true suicide.

Jesus died at the hands of others. He knew what the outcome would be for his actions, but carried at the request his Father had made of him. He could have said no. He chose to obey. He died for his obedience. He was risen from that death, and provided us with the chance to also secure eternal life.

Dying for a cause could be thought of as suicide, I like to think of it as dying for life, instead of dying for death.

Just my opinion. We all know what that is worth.