[ShawnaCAN]

I was raised Catholic so in that I was taught you go to Hell if you commit suicide.


This isn't actually what the Catholic faith teaches though, perhaps it was just someone's misconception about the faith.

We (Catholics) believe that suicide is a serious sin, but nobody knows what happens in the last moments before a suicidal person dies. If they have a split second to repent sincerely, they will not go to Hell. There is also the issue of culpability. In order to commit a mortal sin and go to Hell for it, you have to have full awareness that what you're doing is seriously sinful and deliberately do it anyway. Someone who commits suicide is usually suffering from emotional issues, or trauma, or depression, or mental illness to such an extent that they cannot be fully aware of what they are doing - they just want to make the pain stop. So culpability is diminished.

As Catholics, we commend those who commit suicide to the mercy of God because we simply don't know what state their soul was in during the very last moment of their lives. Only God knows that. He can forgive any sin if we ask forgiveness for it, even suicide if we have time.