In their censure of suicide the Christians were not lonely. Persians, Assyrians, Vavilonians did not approve suicide; their religion "Zoroastrianism" forbade suicide, considering it as crime. Mohammed's followers evaluated suicide as immoral act. In these peoples, just as in Israel, suicide they were accomplished secretly. Person, who accomplishes suicide, ceases to love itself as God creation. Mutilating themselves and destroying themselves, man will inflict wound on world as whole, other people, since humanity and the entire world is the united organism, where everything with all is connected and everything on in all depends.
Orthodoxy considers suicide as murder and does not justify this act, even if it is caused by extraordinary calamities or sufferings. Christianity differs from different religious and philosophical studies in a question about the sense of the suffering: it teaches so that any suffering carried makes sense the sense of suffering in the fact that it is bearing of cross. Christian church solidly stands on what the murder is always more terrible than the suffering what better to suffer how to kill itself because of the suffering. Christian singles estimated suicide as sin, the spiritual incidence, treason to cross.
The level of suicides in summer and is in spring higher than in winter and in autumn; that they accomplish them more frequent man than woman; are the lonely more frequently than family; in the city it is more frequently than in the village; protestants are more frequently than Catholics; in the rich the countries it is more frequently than in the impoverished; the scale of suicides is enlarged in the period of the crisis of society; the number of suicides decreases in the periods of wars and military conflicts. The level of suicides in the society - this is the function of several social variables - religious, family, political and national.