my suicide question part 3?

Question

Okay, I guess I was wrong about asking such a question here. I guess most people in this world are stuck in a common belief system about after and prior life. I reccomend the Seth book by Jane Roberts and visit the jonas ridgeway website. Did any of you know that there are kids in parts of India who can cleary recall their previous life and when asked how they died they admitted to killing themselves. This alone suggest that God will give us as many chances to perfect ourselves into his image. I came to this world to be a successful writer and i'm now 44 and the stress of not achieving this goal is eating away at my body and spirit and the suicide idea was only a way to start over in a fresh new body. We are multidimensional spirits living in earthly shells. Just think of your nightly dreams of meeting dead loved ones and you'll know the answers. Not to mention all those people you know there but not here.

Answer 1

I think if you really wanted to commit suicide you would have done it, instead of mentioning it on Answers.
I think you want someone to talk you out of suicide, and looking at the Answers, most people played right into that.
I think you are deeply depressed, and sometimes the thought of suicide does sound good to you.
In one "question" you mention being an atheist. In this "question" you mention that you want to reincarnate, and start over in a fresh new body. I also think, you don't know what is going to happen if you commit suicide, and that is frightening.
So, instead of being depressed, and getting more depressed, why don't you seek a little counseling. They have facilities that do mental health evaluation and treatment, and if you are broke, it won't cost you a dime.
I think you should try that, then in a few months, see if you still feel like committing suicide.
You might want to rethink your "beliefs" in the meantime also.

Answer 2

I gather you've gotten a few religious answers....anyway..I lean towards the reincarnation theory, based on some personal experiences and those of friends. However, I don't look at suicide as giving you "another chance" to get it right. I think that what we believe our primary goal in life to be may not be the only or most important one that we have.

As an example only, what if your purpose wasn't to be a successful writer but learn that you can go through trials and struggles as you are, and become a stronger, more understanding person? That perhaps this is paving the way for a better success a little further down the line. Or that your conscious purpose is to be a successful writer but your soul purpose is something altogether different?

I don't think we can say "ok, I'm failing so I want a 'do over'." If there is reincarnation and we have a soul purpose in this life and choose suicide, we get put in the same circumstances again and the lessons aren't any easier next time around.

It feels like you're in the place where you have more confidence in death than in life. Isn't that discounting the gift of life that we have been given? Do you have someone you can talk to? For every way we look at our situation, there is an opposite view of the same...and I believe we owe it to ourselves and the life we have to not squander it feeling we have failed...we may just have missed the most important lesson.

Answer 3

I'm sorry...I guess you might believe that I'm unable to see past a common belief system regarding suicide because I will never subscribe to the notion that suicide is some sort of transformative rebirth. I think there are many things in this world that make me question my own life, its value and its purpose. And I am just now coming out of a very dark period of my life where I thought about suicide daily. But I believe that the fact that you are asking these questions, and presenting these opinions in this kind of public forum indicates that you yourself are undecided about the matter, that you are seeking something to either affirm your belief regarding suicide, or something to shatter it. I really hope you find the latter, and there is no false concern, or fabricated sympathy in what I'm telling you. Someone very important to me committed suicide, and I'm left wondering what this person what have accomplished in the ten years since he's been gone. Even if you believe in reincarnation, do you think that suicide should be the means of achieving spiritual transformation? Shouldn't you wait until your life finishes its natural course, to see what else this particular life has in store for you, before you move on to the next one? You are relatively young...why do you assume that at 44 you have run out of options?

Answer 4

Dreams are just dreams. They're not reality.

You get one life and that's all. Read "Dying to Live" by Susan Blackmore if you really want to know the truth. There's zero credible evidence of an afterlife. The people who try to sell the concept are all hucksters. The so-called evidence 1) is generally coming from illiterate people in India who already believe in reincarnation and 2) falls apart whenever someone actually goes and researches it. See the link below for more on the mind/body dualism question.

Even if you do believe in reincarnation, how do you imagine suicide would solve anything? YOU would still have to work through the same problems you have now. If you have any family or friends here, please consider how much pain your death would cause them. My brother committed suicide, so I know firsthand.

Being a writer is a very difficult task - I know because my husband is a writer. Every successful writer just has to keep slogging away at it.

So, keep working on being a writer. Or find a new life goal, one that gives you happiness.

Wishing you all the best in this life.

Answer 5

I'm not going to disagree with you at this stage. Except the Seth books left me confused.What interests me is the problem you are experiencing of not being a successful writer. May I ask how do you know you came on earth to be a writer? I'm not doubting you have the desire. What have you done to try and achieve as a writer.? I will admit it's hard to get published. Unless of course your a celebrity. But There is so much assistance to be had-both on the net and in writer's schools.I have written two books(non-fiction), and a selection of poetry. I truly hate to think it is causing you stress.Commiting suicide because of this, seems such a waste.You write well, your spelling and grammar excellent. The big no-no is to remember we don't get a choice when we return, especially when we have committed suicide. Please don't. Your recollections of meeting people are not neccessarily due to previous lives. They can often be due to Astral travel throughout the spheres of Spirit.

Answer 6

If you succeeded you would still not be happy.

Think of the corn farmer, at 75 too old to work and sitting with his dog. What does he have to talk about? Corn, how to eat corn, how to grow corn and on and on.

The secret is that everything is equally important, so to make one thing more important than another will always cause failure.

Before I continue let me clarify. Important and unimportance does not mean things don't matter, for instance Martin Luther king Jr. and his movement matter a lot, but they only matter on the terms of the world. in the way of knowledge Martin Luther king and Ghandi are people that can effect more than just the world. Hitler could effect only the world. If Hitler had been successful he would not have been happy, because he would not have found what he was looking for.

Martin Luther King Jr. would have been happy even if he were murdered before he could give his first speech, because who he was as a person drove his actions, rather than the sum of his actions driving the person.

I will not tell you whether or not to kill yourself. I will tell you to examine all other possibilities first. Also examine who or what your leaving behind. You only have to deal with your suicide until the act is carried out, but people that you may think don't love you will have to mourn your death for the rest of their lives.

Answer 7

I didn't get to read your other questions on the matter but I'll answer here just the same.

You may be 44 and you may not have achieved the goal you wanted but that is not a reason to die. Many people have not achieved crap and are torn apart by it but still just hang in there believing their live was not a mistake... that they didn't blow it. I am one of those people.

I've wanted nothing more in life than to go to school (college) and enter into a career that would help people (like a social worker or a psychologist)... but I made one mistake. From that mistake the negativity snowballed and I've realized that I'm not ever going to achieve my most coveted goal. But I also realized (over time and with the help of a therapist and friends) that on my way to my much desired goal, I've done things that count... that I can be proud of.. that I matter to the people who have crossed my path. I may not have won the 'gold' ... but I was in the race and I finished. I may not have conquered the entire world... but I'm damn well conquering my own world. And so can you.

Answer 8

You're playing with fire. Any line of thinking that inclines you toward committing suicide is dangerous. People make up stories all the time, ESPECIALLY children, ESPECIALLY in India where they have nothing better to do, ESPECIALLY when other people begin thinking they are incredibly wise. What wonderful attention they must be getting! Get it?

Frankly, the religious systems in which those children are born would refute their own claims, seeing as how committing suicide is wrong and would cause them to come back as a lower life form, not as a beautifully innocent child simply to have "another go at it". Nope. You're thinking wrong here and so are they.

The way to acheive your life's goal is DEFINiTELY not by killing yourself (unless your goal is to acheive death.) The way to acheive success as an author is to hone your skills, inform yourself, open up to criticism so you can improve, and then get published. It may sound like hard work, but even if you never make it to the best sellers list, you'll have accomplished much, and you'll be proud of yourself. But remember this, dead men don't make it to the best seller's list!

Answer 9

Do you think it is some sort of accident that the kids who recount reincarnation stories live in India, a place where reincarnation is a commonly held belief? You can believe what you want and do what you want, but here's the facts, Jack. All your babble about afterlife and multidimensional spirits is just that. You've been given a life, very likely the only one you'll ever have. You should resolve to do something with it and quit whining about your stress at failing so far.

Answer 10

what a crock! so life is tough and you arent doing what you thought you would be at this stage in life so killing yourself is a great choice so you get a do over! that is the dumbest saddest thing i have heard! poor children in india dont know any better cause they are fed a line of crap about reincarnation and rebirth so they fill in the blanks to try and be important! its all hogwash and you know better.even satan knows there is a GOD and trembles cause he knows his time is short!forget this nonsense and get on with the business of living,maybe you need to pray and GOD can help you with that book just ask!