Halachic aspects of suicides

The death of King Saul. Woodcut by Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld.

David Farkas commenting to mentalblog.com: Rabbi Moshe Kanovsky Esquire:

The idea of "me'aved atzmo lidaa's ain lo chelek beolam habah" appears nowhere in rabbinic literature. It made its first appearance in an obscure book in the 13th century, and only started appearing regularly in the 16th century and onwards. There are several different statements in shas showing people who commit suicide being accepted into gan eden with open arms. See Rabbi Dr. Marc Shapiro's article on the subject called "Suicide and the world to come".

Not that Judaism condones suicides, obviously, but we do not categorically reject them posthumously either. Of course, there are no eidim that Moshe committed suicide in any event, to its academic.

I fully agree that yontif is extremely hard on singles. Shabbos is too, but to a lesser extent. We should all be cognizant of this, and invite singles to our homes, not on shul Friday night, but ideally earlier in the week.