Why Suicide?
Even the world professes that "depression" is numbered among the "strongest risk factors for attempted suicide." Scripturally speaking, depression is the condition of hopelessness that the world and Backslidden Christianity share, when they refuse to trust God.
"That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of Promise, having no hope, and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12). We need firmly to understand that, especially for the Christian, the LORD Jesus Christ "is our Hope" (1Timothy 1:1).
We have been given the divine certainty of Scripture that deliverance from the "risk factors for attempted suicide"-- any and all separations, isolations, limitations, pains, sufferings, injustices, and abuses-- comes only from "Christ in you, the Hope of Glory" (Colossians 1:27).
Though the Godly have been warned that we will "suffer"
(2Timothy 3:12) while in this world, Jesus has assured us, "Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). Whether or not we presently see the mitigation or removal of all of what the world calls "risk factors", our confidence in the LORD Jesus Christ, Who performs "all things well"
(Mark 7:37), restrains us from contemplating, attempting, let alone, successfully committing suicide. "If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it" (Romans 8:25).
Our faith that overcomes the "world" (1John 5:4), overcomes suicide, because Jesus is the "Author and Finisher" (Hebrews 12:2) of it.
And, our hope in Christ sustains us from all "risk factors" until He comes for us. "Looking for that Blessed Hope, and the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13).