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DOES SUICIDE SEND ONE TO HELL? No, salvation and eternal security are determined by one’s faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, not by any good or evil deed that he might commit. If a person is a true believer in Christ, then he goes to heaven when he dies. If he's not, then he goes to hell. How he dies is irrelevant. A good Bible example is Samson. This man willingly took his own life by bringing a building down on himself (Jgs. 16:30), yet his name is listed among the faithful saints of God in Hebrews 11:32. Much the same could be said of many martyrs and soldiers who could have saved their own lives by using different words or taking different actions, yet they chose death instead of life. Even Jesus gave up his own life (John 10:18), yet no one believes that this sent him to hell. So, the real issue becomes the REASON for one ending his own life rather than the ending of the life itself, but even then it becomes a non-issue as far as salvation is concerned, since there is no scripture that says a person receives eternal damnation for taking his own life for any reason. If a Christian does so for selfish and sinful reasons, then he will suffer loss of rewards at the judgment seat of Christ (II Cor. 5:10; Rom. 14:10; I Cor. 3:11-15; II John 8.), but his salvation is secure in Christ, since his sins were judged at Calvary. In fact, Romans 8:38 assures us that not even death itself can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ: “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8:39-39) The main issue is not whether a person commits this or that sin, but rather whether or not he has had all of his sins forgiven by exercising faith the cleansing blood of Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:1; Rev. 1:5). The reasoning that a person dies in his sins when he commits suicide (since he has no time left to repent) does not apply to Christians, because our sin record became spotless when we received Christ (Rom. 4:8; II Cor. 5:21). The “old account was settled” in our past, so any future sins affect only our fellowship with God (I John 1:3-9), not our relationship. No Christian ever dies with any sin on his record, because God does not impute sin to those who are in Christ. This is sound doctrine 101, and it's truly sad that so many Christians are so ignorant of it. Suicide affects only the eternal destiny of the lost, because it insures that they die IN THEIR SINS instead of IN CHRIST with a white-as-snow record. But it's the dying in their sins that sends them to hell, not the act of suicide itself.