A Stern Message about Suicide

I don't want to continually focus on the negative, but I would be remiss if I did not write what I am about to say. Today a so called "Madam" (female pimp) commit suicide instead of going to prison. There are many people who commit suicide nowadays, and I want to address those who do so for reasons like hers, to "avoid jail." I'm not addressing in this message those who are in mental despair, or the very young who face a sad problem of impulsive suicide. I'm talking to those who, for example, in a break up, kill their spouse/kids and then commit suicide thinking "you all will be together forever." Um, obviously this is not true. Just because modern society has slipped into thinking of heaven as a slam dunk guarantee and that hell is not real and unbearable, doesn't mean that the misperception is true. Hell and judgement are very real, just as they always have been, and always will be. God certainly does not reunite a parent who kills before suicide, and hell is almost always the outcome.

The same is true for cynical suicide mentality such as "avoiding prison" thinking that death is either nothingness or "default heaven." A pimp has to face judgment for not only encouraging men and women, boys and girls to prostitute themselves (and the pimp is culpable for their moral decay) but also a pimp is responsible for the families who are ruined by his or her providing temptation. It's not like the good old days where those lonely cowboys needed the "whore with the heart of gold." Pimping destroys the moral fabric of the prostitutes, the families of the "patrons," encourages the moral decay of the "patrons," and also the dissolution of the community. It is a mortal sin of the gravest nature. All this woman had to do would be to go to prison and repent. She could have written articles from prison discouraging people from prostitution and she could have saved her eternal soul.

By committing suicide she actually cut away her own chance at salvation and, while I am not going to speak on behalf of God in this case, you know what I've said is very clear. She chose, in her own arrogance, to not even make a feeble effort in prison to undo some of the moral damage that she encouraged and profited from. God does not ask people who sin to perform miracles. If that madam pimp had even sincerely tried to repent and turn others away from the choices she made, she would have opened herself to a fair chance of salvation. Instead, in her arrogance, she chose the road to hell. What a pity, and an all too common "decision."

Remember, I am not at all addressing the suicide as a sin in and of itself theology. I am pointing out that she committed suicide and invoked judgment on herself in a state of very grave sin against the dignity of very many persons and in a state of not only un-belief in judgment based on her actions, but also refusing to accept prison and a life of working for a greater good in penance. That was a terrible and very dire choice, and people need to regain their understanding of that (prior generations understood this much clearer than this fuzzy, self centered and secular society allows). A very sad topic with a very unhappy ending ever after, but I hope that some good can come from her choice if others learn from this easy to understand example that she has made of herself.

I do not want to leave the end of this blog post with her family and friends in a state of total despair after reading this, although I must repeat, I am being truthful and frank so that others do not make the same mistake. I would encourage you to sincerely pray on her behalf. Prayers are never wasted, even if they do not achieve a specific result that one might wish for. But as Jesus reminded, with God all things are possible. Any sincere prayers that you make on her behalf will go to good use in God's greater vision and perspective in eternal time. It is through prayer that great conversion of heart can take place and even if the person is gone, the problems they have left behind and the damage they did remains. Prayer can help in the mitigation of the deceased loved one's damage that they did not attempt to remedy. And God can always put that to good use inside and outside the affected family and their community.