The suicidal ones Options

who knows what happends to the souls that belong to people whom committed a suicide?

This post has been edited by ZmiriZ: Mar 24 2005, 09:00 PM

The first precept in Buddhism is to abstain from harming living things...including oneself!
The Buddha's rational solution is to work with what we are and not try to take short cuts out of suffering. This is not to underestimate the terrible suffering that anyone contemplating suicide must go through when usually emotions are strong and persuasive.

However, if there is little left with which to work then life becomes empty and pointless. It could be the social stigma that the act of suicide has instilled in the Western mind that inhibits freedom of movement - the fear of the horror, the loneliness, regret, guilt, humiliation, remorse and so on for those who are the "survivors".

Maybe it is time to understand that this little life that you own is personal and the decision to make or take is also personal.

With the passage of time and the maturing (hopefully) of intellect, it is maybe possible for some to look beyond the here and now, to the wisdom of the ancients and to the direction of choice - to a new beginning.