CAN SUICIDE REALLY SUCCEED?

SUICIDE — THEN WHAT? (ARTICLE 1 of 7)

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Every life has a purpose, but it can be hard to find. Don’t despair, just hang in there!

INSIGHT

Many cautions against suicide give examples where failed suicides have ended up with horrendous injuries, or just how devastated family and friends have been by the attempt. I am looking at consequences at the other end, where suicides have been apparently successful and the person’s spirit has entered the afterlife, during an NDE (near death experience). This is the end-game and we have now hundreds of accounts of NDEs to analyse.

What is this end-game for suicides? That is the ultimate question. Just how successful an escape from problems can a suicide achieve?

Some years into my interviews and investigations of Near Death Experiences, I was asked by a concerned relative to counsel with a suicidal teenager. This lad’s Rockstar hero had suicided and he wanted to kill himself to join his hero in the afterlife. I did not know anything about the singer concerned, Kurt Cobain, but I was able to assure the youngster that he would NOT be allowed to join Cobain in the…