Religious people also tend wear helmets when they are in places where heavy stuff can accidentally fall on their heads, they go to the hospital when they are sick and generally will to invest a large amount of money and effort in staying alive. Unless you define suicide to include failing to do anything in your power (within moral and legal constraints) to prevent your death as long as possible, the willingness of religious people to stay alive can’t be explained just as complying with the ban on suicide.
On the other hand, the religious ban on suicide can be easily explained as a way to reconcile the explicitly stated belief that death “allows the mind to escape to a better place”, with the implicit but effective belief that death actually sucks.
Religious people also tend wear helmets when they are in places where heavy stuff can accidentally fall on their heads, they go to the hospital when they are sick and generally will to invest a large amount of money and effort in staying alive.
Unless you define suicide to include failing to do anything in your power (within moral and legal constraints) to prevent your death as long as possible, the willingness of religious people to stay alive can’t be explained just as complying with the ban on suicide.
On the other hand, the religious ban on suicide can be easily explained as a way to reconcile the explicitly stated belief that death “allows the mind to escape to a better place”, with the implicit but effective belief that death actually sucks.