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

Any liturgical rites for cases that have not yet been foreseen?

And, finally, there is a personal question. Every individual in the Church has the right

personal charity. Somewhere in the Orthodox consciousness there is: what he does not do

The Church as such, through the big "C", a member of the Church can do. I, of course,

I am not talking about violating something that lies in the essence of the Church. But in

Lives of Saints there is a story about how a priest prayed for suicides and

his bishop forbade him. And there was a night vision to that bishop: crowds of people

they shouted to him that he was their tormentor. And when he asked them: "But what am I for you

have you done?" — they answered: "One person prayed for us, and every time

He prayed and celebrated the Liturgy for us, we were relieved, and now you are us.

deprived of it." This does not change anything in the Church, but in some kind of personal order

sensitivity, personal sense of things, it changes. I have been in the parish for many years

priest who, with the blessing of our bishop, inserted

several petitions and, among other things, prayed for those who "in madness of heart and