[ESP/ENG] ¿Las personas que se suicidan van al cielo?/ Do people who commit suicide go to heaven?
Cuando tenía 13 años y cursaba el 7mo grado de bachillerato, una chica de mi colegio se suicidó, aunque a esa edad conocía perfectamente el concepto, el hecho de que esto haya sucedido con alguien cercano o conocido me dejó marcada y pensando una y otra vez en este acto. 6 meses después, mi mejor amiga lo hizo, lo que aumentó aún más mi curiosidad.
Hello everyone, today I want to talk to you about a topic that is taboo for many, suicide. It has always been of interest to me since years ago when my best friend committed suicide. But what is a suicide, it is nothing more than the act of ending or taking one's own life.
When I was 13 years old and in 7th grade of high school, a girl in my school committed suicide, although at that age I knew the concept perfectly well, the fact that this happened to someone close or known left me marked and thinking over and over again in this act. Six months later, my best friend did it, which increased my curiosity even more.

It was the year 2002, months had passed since the first event and I still felt the sadness and uncertainty that suicide leaves. It was the day of the expositions of countries of the world for the 7th grade of a Catholic school in Valencia, Venezuela. That day passed normally. Days before, my friend, whom we will call Cristen, had asked several classmates to write messages of friendship in a notebook, nothing out of the ordinary in adolescence.
That day we all left at 1:00 pm, which was an exception since the usual departure time was 2:30 pm. The next day I arrived as every day, I didn't see her sitting on the usual wall, I thought: she hasn't arrived yet. My neighbor, who was studying with me, went ahead and went up to the classroom first, when I was on my way to the second floor, I see her turn around and ask me a devastating question:

-Is it true that Cristen died? I, surprised, processing the question, relating the fact that I did not see her sitting on the wall, on which she was waiting for the entrance time every day, I tell him:
-What are you talking about that happened to Cristen?", to which he answers with the delicacy and tact that a 13-year-old teenager can have when giving such news:
-He killed himself, Cristen killed himself yesterday.
At that, I finish climbing the stairs, I go to his classroom and when I get to the door, two classmates are taking out one of the study tables, like an urn at a wake and I start to cry, someone hugs me, to this day I do not know who it was.
For obvious reasons, classes were suspended that day, and there was much speculation about the reasons why Cristen could have made this decision: She was in love with a boy from school, 4 years older than her, she proposed to him and he rejected her, some said. She had several subjects left and her parents are very strict, said others, a theory that could be reinforced when days before she arrived with bruises on her legs. She was pregnant, said the bolder ones. Once again, how strict they were at home, had given rise to thinking that she wanted to attend a party and they had not granted her permission.

The truth is that when a 13-year-old teenager commits suicide, people begin to speculate, what reason does a girl of this age have to do such an act, to end her life? To date I do not know, everything remained in supposed theories of why it happened. As a result of this, another question arose: Does Cristen commit suicide, and all those who commit this act go to heaven? Some people think that these people go to hell, to commit against their own life, they consider it as one more murder, so hell is the only place where they can go. Others consider that they will remain in limbo, waiting for their moment, since by taking their own life before their time, they cannot enter heaven until their time comes.
some think that these people will remain wandering in the place where they died, waiting for their day. Of course, these theories only apply in cultures and religions where it is believed that the soul goes somewhere after bodily death. All this leads me to tell you what happened after Cristen died. Days after the event, I began to dream about her, the first time I saw her with the same clothes she was veiled in, we were walking down a school hallway, she told me that she felt cold and sad, that she was alone and that she was aware of what she had done. Dream after dream, her attitude became darker and sadder, in one of the dreams she was sitting on a bench under a dim lamppost, waiting for something that she never specified, however, she told me that she and all the people who were there, had to wait, and she constantly asked me to accompany her, that she did not want to be alone anymore.

My mother, as a good Catholic, had masses said for her and prayed a lot for her soul. The last time I dreamed of her I was about to graduate, she had grown up just like me, she had a long and beautiful dress, her countenance was different, she looked calm and serene, she said goodbye, she told me that her day had come and that in the letter, that in the dream she gave me, I would know the truth of the reasons for her suicide. That was the last time I dreamed of her. From all this experience the questions arise: What happens to the souls of suicides, do they continue to suffer after they die, are they punished and sent to hell? I want to clarify that this is my personal experience, according to my dreams, I believe that people who commit suicide take their pain to the other world. I also believe that they must serve a waiting time, somewhere, in some dimension, because they left before. However, this waiting, this pain is not eternal, when the time is fulfilled or the moment arrives, they transcend, rest and achieve peace. I am also sure that dreams with loved ones who have passed away, are the way, is the means they get to communicate with us and we must be attentive to their messages.

The suicide of another person will always be a traumatic event that generates many questions. We ask ourselves: What could I have done to avoid it, why didn't I see the signs in that person? The truth is that the best thing we can do is to give quality time to our friends, family, and colleagues, to let them know that they can always count on us, that we will listen to them when they need to unburden themselves. Similarly, mental health must be taken seriously, as it is very important in all stages of a human being's life. Let's be empathetic with our neighbors, let's avoid using expressions such as: and you are going to cry about it? Or you just want to get attention, among others, since we only minimize the other person's emotions, which does not help that person, we only aggravate the situation.

Finally, if you or someone you know is going through a difficult time where you feel there is no way out, I want to tell you that there always is, seek help, look for people who love you, tell them how you feel, all your emotions are valid, and most importantly, SEEK PROFESSIONAL HELP, there is always a solution. Thank you all for reading my post.

Ay bella que tristeza leer esto cuando también tienes hijos. Este es un tema muy fuerte el de salud mental que muchos aún viendo señales no le dan la debida importancia. Si me preguntas a mi sí creo que va al "cielo" porque para mí todas las almas van al mismo lugar y cada una escoge su plan de vida antes de encarnar incluso la forma de morir ( esa es mi opinión personal.) Creo que el infierno se vive aquí cuando hacemos el mal deliberadamente..tranquila tu amiga está en un lugar hermoso.
Gracias por tus bonitas palabras
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