What happens when one commits suicide?
[print] [email] The Urantia Book calls suicide “the final act in the drama of fleeing from the realities of mortal existence.” In our modern life, and really, throughout our modern history, suicide has been looked upon as one of the most serious offenses, spiritually speaking, and many religions consider suicide to merit a sure entry into “hell.” The Urantia Book teaches us that there is no such place as hell, and that God is not a vengeful Deity who desires his erring children to suffer eternal torment by fire. And this is true, no matter what our earthly offenses have been. As far as Urantia Book teachings take us, the only condition under which we will be obliterated, in the cosmic sense, is if we consciously choose to reject God’s plan for survival, i.e., if we consciously decide to embrace willing and iniquitous sin, thereby making us “unreal.” Even then, it is not a place called “hell” that we are destined for, but instead, it is personality extinction; it is as if we had never b
