Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Suicide as the Sin

"Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world."

—G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (San Francisco: Ignatius, 1995), 36–37.