[vlovich123]

I don’t know about the role of religion here. Not taking a position here in either direction, but given how suicide has a social contagion component to it, it’s not surprising that societies develop social norms against allowing any form of it. Sure, it’s dehumanizing and potentially cruel to the individual, but it can have a protective effect at societal scale. Then you need to evaluate the benefits to the individual against the benefits to society and that’s always hard because the latter is amorphous and even harder to quantify. Any religious component could be more of a post hoc rationalization to make it more acceptable / enforce the resolve of the members of society when they come face to face with this situation.