I am thankful to have found this as there have been numerous people in my life who comitted suicide...one was my own Greatgrandfather upon the death of his stroke-ridden wife. He even said to her, in front of others, that he would follow her when she died. No one thought of suicide. The milkman found him Christmas Eve morning of a gunshot from the lugar gun he brought from Germany. How are we to know what the Lord will say to people who take their own life, eventhough it is written in the BIBLE. HOW do we know that in a nano second, the person taking his own life did not ask the Lord to forgive him? AND, I have sat with a friend through the night who wanted to die, and she was a Christian, which seemed to make matters worse, if you can understand that. Wrestling with the all the love the Lord has to give and what He did for us, so we might live, just wasn't enough to squelch the demons in her mind. Nonetheless, I am thankful for this article, as it gives hope for us who have experienced the dark side of suicide.