Near-Suicide Must Be Painful
The doctor in New York who apparently tried to commit suicide and destroy his 5 million dollar property didn't die in the natural gas blast which leveled his 4-story row house in New York City. It must be more than painful to have destroyed your possessions so your estranged wife couldn't benefit from them only to find that you didn't die and now you have no way to pay for medical treatments. Not only is trying to commit suicide "playing God" with your own life, sometimes it becomes a near-miss and exacerbates the situation.

Jesus came to help people who have come to the end of their rope in life. He wants to also bring change but in a positive way. Suicide is never the answer to overwhelming problems. King Saul took his own life for what; Judas took his own life for what; considering that others who made mistakes took a different route: Peter recovered from betrayal by repenting and following Christ, Paul became one of the very Christians that he had been killing before He met Christ in a new relationship.

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