Is hunger striking ѕυιcιdє when wrongfully placed in prison.

Jesus didn't starve himself.  Instead he took up the cross to be crucified.

We should pray for the hunger strikers souls in purgatory.

Yes, it is sinful to willfully deprive the body of the ordinary means of survival:  food, water, air.

Yes, it is ѕυιcιdє, just as dousing oneself with gasoline and lighting oneself on fire is ѕυιcιdє.

It doesn't matter that one is committing ѕυιcιdє to make a point.  In Catholic moral theology, ends do not justify means.

Yes, it is ѕυιcιdє, just as dousing oneself with gasoline and lighting oneself on fire is ѕυιcιdє.

It doesn't matter that one is committing ѕυιcιdє to make a point.  In Catholic moral theology, ends do not justify means.

You're right that the ends don't justify the means.  But I don't see how a hunger strike could be the same as ѕυιcιdє since it takes a very long time to die for lack of food, during which time the situation could change and the striker start eating again.  If the goal was ѕυιcιdє there'd be no point in doing it so slowly.  

First of all, since we have a reputable article from 1920, we need to consider what it says here before we make judgment.

But the second issue is whether or not the prisoners in the specific issue at hand were justly imprisoned.  I don't know enough about the Irish Republican Army of the 1980s except to say that I've read that they were essentially communists rather than true Irish patriots.  Is that true?  I don't know.

If the IRA was, in those days, more of a communist front, then I would not place too much stock in the morality of their actions.  If this is simply English propaganda (which is a very good possibility) then their actions could have been meritorious.

Frankly, I have always doubted the "official news" out of Northern Ireland.  The English really don't have a good track record on respecting the rights of Catholics.  On the other hand, many of the apparent targets of the IRA have not been what true freedom fighters would be targeting.  But then again, I had never heard of "fαℓѕє fℓαg operations" back then, either.

I just don't know about this particular case.

Nelson Mandela was in prison.  He didn't hunger strike

The English still persecute the Irish.  The Easter uprising.  Catholics were gunned down.
And America continues to persecute the Irish Catholics.

Many American films depict the IRish as criminals and the English hierarchy and police as heroes.

Now we pray for Gerry Adams.  

In the past, I attended a Sinn Fein dinner.  A lot of politicians and Church leaders and clergy and Hibernians.
No grace or mention of God or blessed Mother.  It upset me. This was long before I became a tradcat .    

We go to agriculture related meetings and there is grace said.

Sinn fein now votes for abortion in the parliment, also "gαy rights".

Cant vote for them.

Election is coming up now in next few weeks, government is going to get mashed and replaced with lefties and shinners. The days of Catholic Ireland are gone, last nail in the coffin is the removal of all traditional values from the law.