Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh. Transaction

occur because there is no one next to a person who would have his

Approved. No one said, "Your existence is important to me, yours

Existence has value because without you there will be emptiness, which is not

fill with nothing." It seems to me that there is our responsibility here, first of all

as Christians, because we have a vision of things that God gives us in His

The Word, in His Revelation, in the life of the Church, because the Holy Spirit speaks in

our depths; and there is a social responsibility, in the broadest sense

words.

The Church refuses to perform funeral services for suicides. After all, the funeral rite presupposes

a number of things. You can't just say, "Lord, this man has sinned, but

he trusted and trusted in Thee to the end," when he did not trust and did not hope.

It is impossible to say: "This man has sinned, but his faith has never been shaken."

After all, one should not mock either God or the deceased. So there is a category

people who simply do not belong to such a rank. But the Church has long said that

If a person commits suicide in a state of insanity, "affect", then

This should – or can – be taken into account. And I think I have to

take this into account almost always: I have seen only one person who

committed suicide in cold blood (and even then it is difficult to say: whether in cold blood.

a person went bankrupt financially and was simply afraid of responsibility). But there are also

some measure of fear and horror, which cannot be considered cold-bloodedness, at worst

In this regard, a number of questions may arise. Shouldn't we have