Why is suicide considered a sin?

Pleasure and pain in life are respectively the rewards of the good and the bad actions ofan individual. If a man suffers, it is a reminder to him to ennoble his life and make his futurehappy through the performance of good deeds, self-discipline and right effort.When a person, convicted to a term of imprisonment by the court of law for havingcommitted an offence, escapes from the prison, the law demands that he should be rearrestedand given added punishment, because he had not only committed an offence but tried to avoidthe punishment therefor. So is the case with trying to escape from one’s suffering by inflictingdeath on oneself, rather than attempting through self-effort to improve one’s future or acceptingphilosophically what is beyond all help.One has, besides, no right to take a life, even though it may be his own, since it is a crimenot only in the eyes of God but also in the eyes of social law. The person who commits suicidewill suffer more in a spirit-body for a period of time, and then take a lower form of birth, to workout his Karma. So, one will not be benefited in any way by committing suicide.From "May I answer that" by Swami Sivananda (1987-1963). More Informations on Swami Sivananda: on the Website of Divine Life Society, Photographs of Swami Sivananda, German Pages on Swami Sivananda

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Why is suicide considered a sin?

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