Is suicide an escape from our misery?

Else Byskov

            The suicide rates have been rising over the last two decades all over the world, and this trend is alarming, because suicide is never the answer. It may seem like a way out of one´s problems, but it is not. I also sometimes get the question: when it is so wonderful on the spiritual plane, then why not take one´s own life to get there quickly? Let us address the question of suicide and what happens to the spirit of the suicide on the other side.

Suicide is generally seen as the ultimate escape route. If life becomes totally unbearable, it is considered the way to end the misery. Most people probably think so, and this idea is founded in a purely materialistic worldview: we only live once, physical matter is all there is, we cease to exist when we die because then it will all be over….

Or will it?

No, it will not! It will not be over, because our consciousness is not just extinguished when the physical body stops functioning. Our consciousness consists of a type of matter that is different from physical matter: ray-formed or spiritual matter. This type of matter is a kind of energy, and energy cannot cease to exist. Our consciousness forms a field of energy, which we can also call our spiritual body. We are as alive in our spiritual body as we were while our physical body was still functioning. We are simply the same whether we have a physical body or not. When we release our spiritual body from the physical body during the process we call death, this means that our sojourn on the physical plane is over for now. But our spirit lives on quite unaffected by the fact that it is no longer attached to a physical body. We are primarily spiritual beings, and in our spirit everything that defines who we are is stored. We are quite simply the same person with the same ideas, personality, morals, habits, intelligence etc. Our spirit body holds all the information about the person we refer to as ‘me’.

The Spiritual Plane

When we pass over to the spiritual plane we will enter the spiritual world that can be envisaged as a light world of thoughts, organized in a hierarchical structure. We will be fitted into this structure according to the wavelength our consciousness operates on.

The person that commits suicide is undoubtably in a very deep crisis and profoundly unhappy. The somber and dark thoughts have taken over the mentality of the person, who can see no way out of the mental darkness other than ending his/her physical life in the hope that the misery will then come to an end. But here is the first problem: the miserable state of mind does not end just because the physical body dies, because the problem is not of a physical nature. It is of a spiritual nature, and it is still there when the suicide passes over to the spiritual plane, because it is a spiritual reality.

As already mentioned in my other blogposts, it is our predominant thoughts that decide where we go on the spiritual plane when we pass over. When our predominant thoughts are very dark, miserable, and sad, then the law of attraction will take us to a wavelength that corresponds to that dark, miserable mental state. This means that we will ´wake up´ from the suicide in a dark, somber, and miserable world.

Around us there will only be the thought matter of other suicides, now seen as an outer, visible world around us,. Their mental sphere is as dark as our own, and this is now our outer reality: darkness, fear, misery, anger, hatred towards the world, suffering, pain, grief, sorrow, agony, despair, unhappiness, and desolation. It is obviously not a nice place to be, and there is nowhere else to go. The suicide will wake up from the suicide and find himself in exactly the same state of mind as before. But when s/he were still in their physical bodies, they could walk out into the sunshine, take a stroll in the park, call their mother or go and have a pizza. But not on the spiritual plane. Here there is nowhere else to go, no mother to call, no garden outside, no pizzas… there is only the somber wavelength which is filled with a lot of other equally miserable spirits. It is a very unhappy place to be and the unhappy spirit is stuck there until s/he asks for help.

Asking for help

But is it likely that the suicide will ask for help? Well, not for some time at least, because if s/he were prone to ask for help, s/he would have done so on the physical plane. On the physical plane there is always help to find for those who ask: there are organizations, good Samaritans, relatives, friends, Facebook groups, local groups etc. to be found for those who search and are ready to ask for help if they are threatened by suicide. As asking for help is not foremost in the mentality of the suicide, it may take some time before it occurs to them to ask for help. But when they do, they will be helped out of the somber wavelength, and they will then have an experience of the spiritual world just like all others. They will have their own personal paradise experience, and it is not so that they are punished by the universe or God for their suicide attempt. God knows the hardships of the physical world, and s/he does not judge or condemn.

Back to square one

However, in their next incarnation the suicides will have to resolve the causes that prompted them to commit suicide in their last life. They will find themselves in exactly the same situation as the one that caused the suicide the last time around. Suicide is going back to square one. And this time the situation has to be resolved in a proper way, because if it is not, it is back to square one again. Suicide is simply never the answer, because it takes you nowhere other than to a place of misery and then back to square one.

All life is sacred, also your own

And it is worth knowing that all life is sacred, also your own. A physical body is a complicated ´thing´ to create, and we should all make the most of it and get as many years and as many experiences and lessons out of it as possible. What we have not learned in one life, we will have to learn in our next life, so the idea is to get as much mileage out of our physical bodies as possible. And we do that by treating our bodies with love and respect, making sure they get the best possible nourishment, enough exercise and sleep etc. In other words: treat the body as the holy temple it is for the sojourn of our spirit on the physical plane.

All life is sacred, and we are all on a journey towards perfection. If we cut our journey short by killing ourselves, then we have, for a time, prevented our progression towards enlightenment. Thus, we have done ourselves a huge disfavour.

Forget about suicide. It is not an exit route. It solves nothing, it only makes things worse.