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