AESTHETICS
“There are no hard distinctions between what’s real and what’s unreal nor what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false it can be both true and false” (Harold Pinter)
The belief of the After life or Life after death or what happens to a person when they leave their body is viewed differently by different people.
The belief system of Christians is that when a person dies they go to a specific place of existence determined by God based on their actions and beliefs during life.
Killing is viewed as sin but suicide is a grave sin in the Christian faith
“You shall not murder”(Romans 13:9 New king James Bible)
According to Eric of Elric .com the term suicide was coined in 1651 and it literally means “Self” (sui) to kill (cide)
The reason suicide
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“sceptism is the negative form of philosophy which sets out to undermine other philosophical theories claiming to be in possession of the ultimate truth or of criteria for determining what counts as ultimate truth” (Stuart sim 2011 p3)
The sceptic Christians have come out to challenge the belief quoting the bible in Romans 8:32 “ that neither life nor death can separate a believer form the love of God in Christ Jesus” on this basis Lewis Smedes writes “ How can I trust this promise and deny it comfort to people who doubly grieve for brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers who in horrible moments of despair decided to end their lives? I believe Jesus died for all our sins including the forgotten one and suicide”
(Lewis B. Smedes 2016)
in our term project Lebo has committed suicide, Ntando his brother being Christian knows according to preached doctrines that his brother is hell. Its one thing to loose a loved one and its another knowing that iin their after life they are in aplace where they are burning and