I’m not quite sure why this would be the case. You just need to regard the world as inferior to your afterlife, in order for suicide to be a selfish act.

> Killing oneself is never a rewarding act, regardless of one’s delusions to the contrary.

From her perspective (which is really how you have to consider these things when talking about “selfishness”), death would bring about a reward. Granted, I think the only real reward is for our gene pool that I’m hoping she didn’t add to… but that doesn’t speak against the intentional selfishness of her act.

She could have stayed here and done God’s work on earth rather than doing something so stupid and risky that it would kill her. She did the selfish thing.

On a related topic: What about this whole notion that Jesus sacrificed himself for our sins? I never understood that one. Why would Jesus — who purported to know of his own divinity and be in communion with God — be portrayed as making some big sacrifice? He was slumming it here on earth, living a dreary human life… why wouldn’t death and resurrection have been more of a reward than anything?

If I knew that I had someplace with the characteristics of heaven awaiting me, I’d go into my closed garage and start the car tonight. HERE I COME, GOD!

However, the last thing this was was “selfish”. I wish people would observe the roots of that word more often. Clearly the word describes that which promotes the self, “promote” here meaning the opposite of “kill”. Harming oneself is not a self-oriented act, and is certainly not conducive to one’s life.

This is a “selfless” act. Selfless acts, or acts which do not recognize the requirements of one’s own life, attempting to regard something else as a primary motive, are always detrimental to oneself.