SUICIDE – Then What?
(Part 2)
Life is Worth Living
Please seek help if you have suicidal thoughts or just need to talk to someone.
In Australia: phone LIFELINE 13 11 14 or BEYOND BLUE 1300 22 4636.
Worldwide: www.opencounseling.com/suicide-hotlines
Life can be tough but there are always friends and counsellors to lift you through the bad patches!
INSIGHT (You may find this article distressing if you have lost someone to suicide.)
Even before covid-19, there were yearly an estimated 800 000 suicides worldwide – each being a personal tragedy devastating for family, friends and others. Most of us know of someone who has suicided.
If you are considering suiciding – please don’t.
I have spent upwards of 40 years interviewing returnees from death and reading their accounts, and the one thing in the afterlife that can draw an angry response from God this side of Judgement is that a person has suicided. Why does that make Him angry? Perhaps He had other plans? Only He knows, but then only He decides our afterlife.
The vast majority of suicides, but not all, find the afterlife to be unpleasant – generally isolated and devoid of company in some “prison section” where they endlessly contemplate their past life. There is no escape. Not nice, but apparently necessary.
Please “hang in there”, and pray, instead of suiciding. Situations in life can change very quickly and you can take a different direction into a very worthwhile and satisfying life. Millions have done so.
Here is a quote from a suicide survivor, NDEr Angie Fenimore, who since her return from death has been a successful campaigner against suicide. She has held out her hand to hundreds to help them. The quote is taken from her 1996 hook, “Beyond the Darkness”:
“Our time on Earth… is THE turning point. It determines how our spirits will exist forever.”
—Angie Fenimore, NDEr and suicide survivor.
We are about to meet prominent cardiologist Maurice Rawlings, who served President Dwight Eisenhower and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He did not believe in NDEs, but his experiences while reviving clinically dead patients convinced him of survival after death. But did all suicides have unpleasant experiences, he wondered? He noticed that a number of the suicides that he revived from apparent death were terrified and blurted out descriptions of their unpleasant afterlife experiences, but when he visited them just hours later they would have no memory of what they had told him! Could it be their memories were so disturbing that, to continue functioning efficiently, the brain had already consigned those experiences to deeper levels of the subconscious?
Quotes from “Living Beyond” follow:
The NDEs of Suicides
People who have attempted suicide and who have had NDEs report them to have been unpleasant in the main, so suicide is best avoided. Here are a couple of typical examples.
Cardiologist Maurice Rawlings quoted a despondent fourteen-year-old girl who had swallowed a bottle of aspirin:
“At the time she kept saying, ‘Mama, help me! Make them let go of me! They’re trying to hurt me!’
The doctors tried to apologise for hurting her, but she said it wasn’t the doctors, but ‘Them! Those demons in Hell, they wouldn’t let go of me, they wanted me. I couldn’t get back. It was just awful…’
After the various tubes were removed, I asked her to recall what had happened. She remembered taking the aspirin, but absolutely nothing else! Somewhere in her mind the events may still be suppressed…
She subsequently became a missionary several years later. No despondency. I am told that everywhere she goes she brings exuberance – a contagious feeling.”
A medical associate of Dr Maurice Rawlings provides another ‘standard’ account.
“At the height of his success no one could have known he was so despondent.
He told me he was searching for more than life had to offer. I didn’t understand him myself. I should have listened because that night I was called to his home in Beverly Hills and found him on the floor with a bullet wound through his mouth.
He revived to consciousness and responded to resuscitation for a while before he died. I asked him if he hurt. He shook his head – No. I told him we were going to try to save him. He nodded in agreement. His last words were, ‘I’m scared! Don’t let me go back to Hell! I can see it now.’
I don’t know what he saw.”
Why are the NDEs of suicides generally unpleasant? Only God knows – but we can conjecture.
A possible reason could be that the majority of suicides will have been in a traumatised emotional and psychological state when planning to kill themselves, and this state alone may have put them into the afterlife Void or some other appropriate section of the Prison for a season of reflection.
There may also be a spiritual explanation for unpleasant suicide NDEs.
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under Heaven – a time to give birth and a time to die (Ecclesiastes 3:1,2).”
“All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be (Psalm 139:16).”
While mankind does not have the capacity to increase a lifespan at will, by a free will choice to commit suicide he can shorten it. Consequently, suicide goes against God’s allotted purposes. Moving outside the natural order like this may automatically consign a spirit into an isolated ‘holding’ situation in the Prison section until Judgement Day.
PMH ATWATER is a prominent researcher of NDEs. Having had 3 NDEs herself, she researches to comprehend what goes on in the afterlife in greater depth. Amongst her conclusions is that “suicide is allowed, but solves nothing”.
So please hang in there! Solutions to our enormous earthly problems, I have found in my own experience, may be just around the corner. But in any case, suicide is never the solution or escape that suicides hope it will be.
End Part 2
