Suicide, Mortal Sin & The Forthcoming Zombie Apocalypse

When the Zombie Apocalypse comes, if bitten by a zombie, wouldn’t destroying your own brain be the moral thing to do*? Sacrifice your remaining time alive, so that you won’t infect others in your undead state. Now if suicide is a mortal sin, would this mean that you will spend eternity burning in pits of hell for acting morally?

*= Assuming the virus is incurable

DublinWriter

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Karl Hungus

Yeah, you'd burn in hell for that. Suicide is suicide, reguardless of your intentions. You see, god wants you to be a zombie.

DublinWriter

illegalheadbutt wrote:

Now if suicide is a mortal sin, would this mean that you will spend eternity burning in pits of hell for acting morally?

In all seriousness, I think it was Vatican II (Paul's Revenge) that changed the canonical interpretation of the act of suicide to include provision that one may change one's mind during the act.

For example, you might throw yourself off the top off a high-building and change your mind half-way down, or pull a trigger and change your mind just as the hammer strikes the bullet.

That's why the Catholic church has allowed suicide victims to be buried on consectrated ground since the mid-1960's.