SUICIDE – Then What?
(Part 4)
Hope Is Eternal
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Regardless of what you have done or feel, HOPE is reaching out to you today.
INSIGHT (You may find this article distressing if you have lost someone to suicide.)
Some pleasant NDEs have been experienced by people where mental illness led to the suicide. Where mental illness derives from a physical disorder of the brain, it ceases at death, in the same way that blind or deaf people have their brain-centred senses restored in the afterlife.
Similarly, with those who were suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other conditions caused by a malfunctioning of the brain: their imperfect brains have been left behind on Earth, and they taste a new beginning.
We might speculate about those whose life ends through euthanasia or assisted suicide. As yet I have seen no accounts by any returnees to help me explore afterlife experiences of those who make this choice or have it made for them.
Of interest, Holland was the first country in the world in the year 2000 to legalise euthanasia and cardiologist Pim van Lommel is their most prominent NDE researcher. He originally began his investigations determined to debunk this “afterlife nonsense”. Convinced now regarding the afterlife and the survival of the consciousness, he cautions:
“The conclusion that consciousness can be experienced independently of brain function might well induce a huge change in the scientific paradigm in Western medicine, and could have practical implications in actual medical and ethical problems such as the care for comatose or dying patients, euthanasia, abortion ….”
There are still more questions than answers!
Quotes from “Living Beyond” follow:
It appears that, one way or another, many NDErs do not escape the consequences of their suicide. Dr George Ritchie describes seeing, during his NDE, the anguished Earth-bound spirits of suicide victims.
“In one house a younger man followed an older one from room to room.
‘I’m sorry, Pa!’ he kept saying. ’I didn’t know what it would do to Mama! I didn’t understand.’
But though I could hear him clearly, it was obvious that the man he was speaking to could not. The old man was carrying a tray into a room where an elderly woman sat in bed.
‘I’m sorry, Pa,’ the young man said again. ‘I’m sorry, Mama.’
Endlessly, over and over, to ears that could not hear.
Several times we paused before similar scenes –
A boy trailing a teenaged girl through the corridors of a school:
‘I’m sorry, Nancy!’
A middle-aged woman begging a gray-haired man to forgive her.
‘What are they so sorry for, Jesus?’ I pleaded. ‘Why do they keep talking to people who can’t hear them?’
Then from the light beside me came the thought:
‘They are suicides, chained to every consequence of their act.’”
These scenes shook up Ritchie and remained etched in his memory. When later contemplating suicide himself, he knew that NO situation on Earth was worth the misery of those spirits that he had witnessed during his NDE. Nor had they escaped from their situations as they had hoped; instead, they had become chained to them.
It is noteworthy that this unpleasant experience seen by Ritchie did not take part in the Void or another Prison section of Hades. It involved an Earth-bound experience, although the sense of captivity was almost as great.
Don’t choose to keep re-living your traumas and your mistakes in the afterlife. Don’t suicide! Instead, make changes while still on earth. Remember, HOPE IS ETERNAL.
Hope is one of three vital eternal qualities that you are challenged to develop while on earth, three qualities that you take into the afterlife with you – being FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE (1Cor13:13). Tough situations on earth can help to develop all three, so please recognise trials as opportunities. Never consider suicide, because who you are can then become frozen as a person rather than developing.
End Part 4
