Quotes #11: Don't Even Go There: Famous Quotes on Suicide
Cesare Pavese said "no one ever lacks a good reason for suicide." That is because most who take their lives do not learn the truth about suicide until their next life... when it's too late. Here is the truth about suicide from one who has been there and back. The moral of this story is: 'Suicide: don't ever go there'. Definition of Suicide: "Suicide is the act of one who causes his own death either by: * Positively destroying his own life, as by inflicting on himself a mortal wound or injury. * Omitting to
do what is necessary to escape death, as in avoiding the
obligation incumbent on man to preserve his life." Confession of a "Suicide": For about the last 150 years, I have been reeling from a series of suicides. In the American Civil War, I was so recklessly indifferent about my life that I was killed (failing to preserve my life). I incarnated into a life of violence in the American West so repugnant to me that I intentionally provoked another man into killing me (thereby inflicting a mortal wound on myself). The Penalty: So next I - literally - descended into hell on Earth: 4 years in a Nazi concentration camp. When I could not take it anymore, I again arranged for my own death. Then I incarnated into this life with severe physical problems. All of these experiences have left me with a profound respect for the sacredness of all life. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Suicide:
Going From Being into Nothingness & Finding There is No Exit "As much as the suicidal personality feels able
to escape the world by getting rid of the body,
reincarnation's revolving door ensures that all hope (of
escape) is short lived. Those who learn that they have
killed themselves in past lives are quickly brought to
the realization that suicide, far from being an answer to
life's problems is (instead) the violent breaking of the
lifeline. If the (suicide) could only realize the
resulting intensification of difficulty which must enter
the life to come, (suicide) would never be
(attempted)." "In cases in which the related previous
personality had committed suicide, the subject has shown
an inclination to contemplate and threaten suicide." Once a person has taken their life, in the inner
realms, the "suicide will repeat automatically the
feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self
murder, and go through the act and the death struggle
time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain
conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the
earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have
lost the physical body." "Every disgruntled person in this world has
played with the idea of suicide, self destruction, at
some time or other. The law of God does not allow
self-destruction in any form. When a person destroys
himself to escape the problems of life, he must return to
life almost at once in a new bodily incarnation in order
to work out the karma which he refused to confront in the
life he just left." "Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be
none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who
remain proud and fierce even in hell, in spite of their
certain knowledge and contemplation of the absolute
truth; there are some fearful ones who have given
themselves over to Satan and his proud spirit entirely.
For such, hell is voluntary and ever consuming; they are
tortured by their own choice. For they have cursed
themselves, cursing God and life. And they will burn in
the fire of their own wrath forever and yearn for death
and annihilation. But they will not attain to
death." "Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which
sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far
beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies." Welcome to Your Nightmare: Understand What You Are Getting Into "...it is only death which is hopeless." From a patient of Brain Weiss MD: "''I'm going to
shoot myself and end this misery! I've shot myself in the
mouth, and now I can see my body. I'm still so sad. I'm
so tired. But I can't rest. Someone is here for me. He
has something to tell me. I should not have ended my
life!' And so Brian Weiss reflects on his patient's
story: "Themes of separation and loss plagued his
lifetime. This time they had led him to suicide. He had
been warned about not ending a life prematurely. But
losses were occurring anew, and grief had returned. Would
he remember or would hopeless despair overtake him once
again?" Ian Stevenson began investigating the case of the
Brazilian Paulo Lorenz: The "personality of
reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister,
Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she
took cyanide and died very quickly on October, 12,
1921." Joe Fisher continued the research: Emilia
died "fourteen months before Paulo's birth. He took
on Emilia's self destructive instincts. Paulo made
several attempts to kill himself before committing
suicide on September 5, 1966 by setting himself on
fire." "Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is
the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an
interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of
loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man.
The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is
concerned he wipes out the world... The suicide insults
everything on earth by not stealing it. He defiles every
flower by refusing to live for its sake. There is not a
tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death is not a
sneer. When a man hangs himself on a tree, the leaves
might fall off in anger and the birds fly away in fury:
for each has received a personal affront... There is a
meaning in burying the suicide apart. The man's crime is
different from other crimes - for it makes even crimes
impossible." "...as soon as we examine suicide from the
standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true
light. We have been placed in this world under certain
conditions and for specific purposes. But a suicide
opposes the purpose of his creator; he arrives in the
other world as one who has deserted his post; he must be
looked upon as a rebel against God. God is our owner; we
are his property; his providence works for our
good." "The devil is not only a liar, but also a
murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his
anger whenever he can afflict our bodies with misfortune
and harm. Hence it comes that he often breaks men's necks
or drives them to insanity, drowns some, and incites many
to commit suicide, and to many other terrible calamities.
Therefore there is nothing for us to do upon earth but to
pray against this arch enemy without ceasing. For unless
God preserved us, we would not be safe from him even for
an hour." "A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of
toil, is what we covet most; and yet "I do see that there is an argument against
suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the
awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms
for the release." Breaking the Law... And You Will Have to Pay for It... Next Life "As my body lay dead on that stretcher (he later
recovered from being struck by lightning attracted by his
cell phone), I was reliving every moment of my life,
including my emotions, attitudes, and motivations. The
depth of emotion I experienced during this life review
was astonishing. Not only could I feel the way both I and
the other person had felt when an incident took place, I
could also feel the feelings of the next person they
reacted to. I was in a chain reaction of emotion, one
that showed how deeply we affect one another." "Yama, The Judge of the Dead, will say, 'I will
look into the mirror of evolution! When he looks into the
mirror of evolution, all your sins and virtues will
clearly and distinctly appear therein. You lies will not
help. But since you cannot die, even though your body is
cut to pieces, you revive again." "The law does not expressly permit suicide, and
what it does not permit it forbids." "And what shall he suffer who slays him who of
all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the
suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his
appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state
requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some
painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon
him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable
and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of
manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty." "For if it is not lawful to take the law into our
own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no
public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who
kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of
his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for
which he doomed himself to die." "God forbids suicide, and is unwilling that his
creatures should destroy themselves." "But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is
not a state of license. Though man (has) an
uncontrollable liberty to dispose of his person or
possessions, he has not liberty to destroy himself... No
one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or
possessions. For men being all the workmanship of one
omnipotent and infinitely wise Maker; all the servants of
one sovereign Master, sent into the world by His order
and about His business; they are His property, whose
workmanship they are made to last during His, not one
another's pleasure... Every one as he is bound to
preserve himself, and not to quit his station
willfully." "In no passage of the holy canonical books there
can be found either divine precept or permission to take
away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on
the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding
ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly
interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou
shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the
omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are
inserted when false witness is forbidden." "It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself...
Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of
nature, and to charity whereby every man should love
himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to
His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever
takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to
God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life." Remember This: That in Your Struggling, You are Not Alone "How interesting it would be to write the story
of the experiences in this life of a man who killed
himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the
very demands which had offered themselves before, until
he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those
demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction
to the present life." "Nine men in ten are would be suicides." "Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells
awful. So you might as well live." "There is in every madman a misunderstood genius
whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and
for whom delirium and suicide were the only solutions to
the strangulation that life had prepared for him." "Success and failure are both difficult to
endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce,
fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication,
depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes
failure." In Memorium to Kurt Cobain:
"He had it all. A great career as a rock star,
hordes of adoring fans, money up the wazoo, a loving
wife, a beautiful daughter, a future bright with
promise... and yet his response to success was the
ultimate failure: suicide. Despite the love surrounding
him on all sides: he could not see it, could not hear it,
could not feel it. It is love that makes us go on living.
It is love that attaches us to life. It is love that
carries us through the dark moments of our lives. So if
you are thinking about ending your life, learn from
Kurt's mistake. Take a moment to look around you. You may
be amazed to see there is more love around you than you
know and more reason for living than you could ever
imagine." "There is but one truly serious philosophical
problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or
is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental
question of philosophy." "In the last analysis, the service the Christian
does is not his, but Christ's. Thus he must not feel too
keenly the burden of responsibility, because at the end
of the day all he can say is, 'We are unprofitable
servants'. This knowledge, far from inhibiting action,
actually releases the Christian from that appalling
feeling of responsibility that has driven so many
high-minded humanists to despair, even to suicide... Work
done conscientiously by the Christian is his share in
Christ's service; but it is Christ's service, and
therefore the Christian need neither be proud because it
has succeeded or overwhelmed because it has failed. The
service of Christ is supremely expressed in the apparent
failure of the Cross." "As a man increases in moral strength of
character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he
realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from
the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of
guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in
goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased
happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater
unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion
to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is
either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God. While if he
knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having
sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence
derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life,
sure of the final victory." Count Your Blessings and Go on Living "Blessed is every one that loveth the Lord; that
walketh in his ways." "Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the
most High." "For, behold, the kingdom of God is within
you." "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with
me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." "And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect
health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the
cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid
to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But
Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he
went on living." "One does not become enlightened by imagining
figures of light, but by making the darkness
conscious." "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago
have committed suicide." "When all the blandishments of life are gone, The
coward sneaks to death, the brave live on." "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at
times of challenge and controversy." "'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord:
that He may teach us His ways' (Isaiah 2:3). 'Let the
Word of God dwell in you' (1 Corinthians 3:16). We should
ponder these daily - some new fire to arouse the heart
will always be found, but we slip everyday. The flesh,
sin, death and the world assail us. Not for even one
moment are we safe: because sins surround us on all sides
and weaken godly feelings. Besides, the world persecutes
us. So it is necessary to hear the Word of God
constantly, so our feelings may be enlightened. 'Lead us
not into temptation but deliver us from evil' (Matthew
6:13). We must live every day by the Word as the body
lives by food. A return to the Word guards against sins. The heart is always grinding. If the
grain, namely, the Word of God, is good; the bread,
namely your life, will be good." Prayer To God for
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