Suicide – the Convenient Exit
Suicide is a generous option, another great gift of God.
Man has not invented suicide. It is an option provided by the Creator should the situation become unbearable. The Master has provided human beings with an emergency exit for us to break out of desperate situations. To use it or not is your choice and nobody else's business. Suicide can be imagined as an emergency return to the cruising ship for those who got in real difficulties during their excursion on Earth.
Religious people preach against suicide, declaring it a sin. Yet, they will also tell you that God is generous, that he will forgive you all your sins. These arguments are self-contradictory in many ways: If Paradise comes after death, why do they try to prevent you from reaching it as soon as possible? They talk about God's unlimited generosity and forgiveness but they fear him, and dread his punishments should they fail him in some way.
These stands are inconsistent. I say: Forget about religions, and forget about the ‘right-thinking’ people who intend to deprive you of your freedom and free will. This is your life, and nobody has the right to interfere and tell you what to think and do. Had the Creator not wanted this option to exist, it would not have been made available to us.
If the option of suicide is the creator’s doing, also incorporated in our nature are the rules concerning its use. Humans know instinctively that this exit must be used only as a last resort under unbearable circumstances. So, I'm not, in fact, advocating that suicide should be considered lightly. It is the very last resort. My opinion however, is that it is not a sin, and no human will suffer punishment for using an option granted by the Master’s own will. However offering help to a person bent on suicide is a very generous act that I fully support and encourage.
To those who will certainly disagree with my views on suicide, I say this: don't tell me that life is worth living under any conditions. You know nothing about the situation; you don’t know the destiny that governs this person; you don’t know if she has completed her studies in this world, or the reasons or circumstances she is operating in. You don't know if it isn’t ‘God’ who wants it this way, because should this be against his plan, he has the power to prevent it.
Let's express the rule governing the proper use of the option of suicide: It is to be used only under extremes circumstances. There can be no training for this one and there will be no retry. Suicide is a serious matter but all humans know that instinctively.