Year: 1998 Source: Western Catholic Reporter, (13 July 1998), 1p. SIEC No: 20030270

This article examines a common misunderstanding that suicide is voluntary because it is self inflicted, in a way that death through physical illness or accidents are not. The author compares suicide to emotional physical illness or emotional fatality. The article also mentions that a person who has died of suicide did not leave the world of his or her own will. The article concludes by discussing suicide & the afterlife. (AK)