In the funeral rite, believers ask God to forgive the sins of the deceased. The priest reads a permissive prayer, which forgives the deceased sins. Living people trust in the mercy of God and trust that the Lord will receive his child. However, suicides in the Church are prohibited.
In the funeral service, Orthodox believers ask God to give heaven to the dead. Every member of the Church of Christ must be inveterate. But in the canonical practice of the Church, the funeral service of suicides is prohibited, regardless of whether the person was a Christian or not. This is due to the fact that a suicide of her own free will commits the sin of killing his personality. It is known from scripture that murderers do not inherit the kingdom of heaven. In addition, the case when a person was able to repent. The suicide does not have the opportunity to repent. Therefore, he commits this atrocity with the sin of murder and goes into eternity.
Orthodox doctrine determines that there is no sense in the funeral of suicides to the extent of a general idea of the essence of the future life. Reaching paradise is not only a goal or reward for man. The kingdom of heaven is the result of human life. Death is the transition of a person from one state to another, and the vector of life of people on earth goes to eternity.
The main reason for suicide is the person’s conviction that his life has become unbearable and has turned into hell. If a person thinks that he lives in hell and dies of his own free will, then the idea of hell follows him into another world. It turns out that the Church does not violate human freedom. If he committed suicide, if his whole life is hell and his personality does not turn to God, but, on the contrary, violates the divine plan for himself, then the Church can no longer help. The man himself made a choice.
However, there may be reasons for the funeral of suicides. For example, when there is medical evidence of a mental personality disorder, when a person injured himself to death due to a similar illness. In this case, the funeral service may be performed with the permission of the bishop. But these cases are not so frequent.
