What Happens After a Person Commits Suicide?

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[People News] People often wonder, "What impact does suicide have on us?" Many believe that if someone commits suicide, they must repeat the entire cycle of reincarnation, reliving all the trials and tribulations they faced in their past lives, including the life in which they consciously chose to end their existence. Most Christians also hold the belief that those who take their own lives can only enter hell, where they will be eternally tormented by flames.

However, Dr Bryan Jameison, a prominent expert on reincarnation in the United States, has found no evidence to support this notion. While he did not uncover any proof, he firmly states that suicide is not a solution. He argues that even if someone seeks to escape their reality through suicide, they will still confront the same challenges in a future reincarnation. Not only will they face similar hardships again, but they may also encounter the same or even worse individuals.

In his book "Searching for Past Lives," Dr Jameison explains that the reasons behind a suicide determine whether the individual will face punishment. For instance, in the context of war, if a soldier chooses to take his own life rather than surrender, he will not be punished. Those who leap from cliffs to escape torture, rape, or humiliation will also not face consequences. Similarly, individuals who commit suicide to preserve their honour or to sacrifice their life for another (such as through seppuku) will not be punished either.

Additionally, when a person decides to end their life due to unemployment, the loss of a loved one, or simply a sense of weariness with life, it appears that suicide does not bring about any other punishment beyond the pain they choose to inflict upon themselves in the future (such as abdominal pain, neck stiffness, migraines, back pain, etc.). The emotional and psychological state a person experiences before their death is inevitably carried into the afterlife.

For instance, those who commit suicide by hanging often suffer from migraines or neck issues in the next life. Those who use a Magnum .44 to take their own lives will likely need to stock up on aspirin in the afterlife. Those who choose poison will experience inexplicable stomach pains in the next world.

The most significant harm caused by suicides is the impact on the living, who endure guilt that they should not have to bear. At some point, those who have taken their own lives must make amends for the pain they have inflicted on others.

One day, an elderly woman named Nancy approached Dr Jameison, inquiring whether reincarnation truly exists. At that moment, the doctor was unaware of Nancy's true intentions: if reincarnation is real, she would choose to end her life, hoping for a better existence in the next world.

Before recounting her memories, Nancy shared with the doctor that she had attempted suicide three times, but each attempt had failed. The first time, she tried to take sleeping pills with alcohol, but a neighbour discovered her and she was taken to the hospital. The second time, while in a hotel in another city, she attempted to cut her wrists in the bathtub, but was rescued by firefighters when the hotel caught fire. The third time, on a cold winter day, she drove away from the city and locked the car doors to commit suicide, but was saved by a nearby farmer.

During the regression, Nancy discovered that she had successfully taken her own life in a past life for the same foolish reason. Clearly, in this life, she had not changed at all. To illustrate this point, she remains alive and shares her experiences from her past life.

Following the regression, Nancy's perspective shifted; she no longer sought to end her life but instead chose to continue living. It could be said that suicide might merely represent another lesson in the spiritual journey of mortals.

Throughout the regression, the doctor frequently asked the participants what they had learned from the experience. Without exception, everyone ultimately came to the painful realisation that suicide is indeed a futile endeavour. Regardless of attempts to halt the progression of life, the life that must be lived will inevitably be lived, no matter how many times one reincarnates.

(First published in People News)△