I read something somewhere else that prompted the following question:

Does God punish suicide?

Here is one response I read in an open forum outside of Maritime to this question:

Do you agree or disagree with this person's response?

I disagree. If the person is mentally ill, the situation is different. But not all who commit suicide are mentally ill. Not to mention that some commit gradual suicide by wrong and sinful habits.
Of course to shorten life by self-murder is a breach of the sixth commandment, and God considers the person guilty of this sin.

"When the man refused to lift his hand against the Lord's anointed, Saul took his own life by falling upon his sword. Thus the first king of Israel perished, with the guilt of self-murder upon his soul." {CC 174.2}

Do we also have some Scripture regarding this?

Wouldn't God punishing suicide be redundant?

Seems to me only God knows a person's passing thoughts and feelings, therefore, only He can determine if they are worthy of eternal life. He knows us so well that He can impute repentance and forgiveness based on what we would have done had we not died - like the guy who curses just before a fatal head-on crash.

Interesting comments, but without any support for it given from the Bible.

Where do you get this idea from? (i.e., that God will impute repentance or forgiveness on the basis of what someone might have done had they lived.)

What we would have done had we not died is immaterial. What matters is what we *will* do after dying. God determines whether the person would be happy in heaven. That's all that needs to be done.

Actually, what will count, in light of the IJ, is what we *did* before dying. By their fruits we will know them.

But since sin is a species of insanity, all sinners are mentally ill.

There's the obvious one: Thou shalt not kill.

But then, I can't think of many people in the Bible who killed themselves.