The Spiritual Consequences of Suicide

What happens to a soul when we commit suicide?

Let's use the analogy of a play, as in a theater production.  Before we incarnate into the material world, we select our parents and our life circumstances (if our spirit has progressed to that level).  It's similar to accepting a role in a play.  Plenty of behind the scenes work goes into creating your role in this play.  Other people may have wanted the role but you got it.  Now you are responsible for what you do with it.

So you incarnate, and you are performing your part just fine.  Then one day, you decide that this play is getting harder and harder to perform.  Maybe you are late for a performance.  Maybe you don't like the lines, or the audience is heckling you.  Maybe your role is just really difficult - as you are in every scene, and you feel like you never have a chance to catch your breath.  Or maybe you find that you have no scenes, and you're starting to feel ignored or like nobody cares.  Maybe you just don't like your fellow actors, or someone in the play is hurting you.  For whatever reason, the role you accepted doesn't make you happy any longer - and you want to quit.

Like in a play, when you quit your role in life without notice (commit suicide), you leave a gaping hole in the production.  The role you were meant to play is no longer being filled.  So the other actors have to work around your part.  If there was a love scene coming up, that other actor does not have anyone to perform it with.  Scenes need to be rewritten.  Lines need to be reworked.  Shows may even need to be canceled or rescheduled.  And you know what?  You're responsible.

Not only are you responsible for leaving everyone else with a mess, but you are responsible for fixing it, even from the other side.  When you commit suicide, you are removing yourself from the play which intersects tens or even hundreds of other lives (or more).  Prearranged meetings cannot take place now.  Children you were going to have need to find other parents or life circumstances.  When you prematurely drop out of the play, you leave a lot of people hanging.  You can give up your role, but you cannot give up the responsibility you had when you accepted that role.

There is more:  What happens when you cross over after a suicide?  As your spirit leaves your body, you may immediately regret what you have done.  Or you may find yourself in a state of shame and/or guilt, two of the lowest levels of consciousness.  As with many of the spirits that you read about in our session notes, you may become "stuck," fixated on just one thing over and over - your suicide.  In this state, you are not even capable of helping yourself, let alone repairing the lives of the people you left behind.  If we return to the analogy of the play, you have been "type-cast" into playing the same sad role - over and over. 

Once the trauma has subsided, (and your spirit reaches fairly high state of awareness), it now becomes one of your responsibilities to work with the guides to fill the vacancy that you have left behind.  Threads need to be rewoven into the tapestry of life, new encounters need to take place.  Once you complete this process (which could take a while depending on many factors), you are free of the karma you attracted with suicide, and you are released into spirit world - where education and assistance can be provided.

So like an actor in a play, you are allowed to quit.  Free will ensures that you have the right to take your own life.  But you must be aware of the consequences and the responsibility you have to every single person whose life you would have touched in a significant, meaningful way.  Life in the material world can be really difficult - but it's why we are here - to learn and progress.  And you can change your life at any time.  Whatever you have gotten yourself into, there is a way out that doesn't involve suicide.  You may reach the end of your life completely worn out, broken, and even devastated, but from a spiritual perspective, that would be better than quitting.  When you quit, you still have to learn all the lessons you came here to learn - and the next time you incarnate, it isn't going to become easier, it will be more difficult.  Do you think we have earned the right to select our parents and life circumstances if we commit suicide?  Would a director be eager to cast an actor who quit his last play?

So don't quit the play.  Ask for help.  Maybe you can be sent on vacation and your understudy can perform your role for a while.  Maybe you can get the writers to give you fewer lines, or more support in your scenes.  But don't quit.  People are counting on you, including your higher self.  We are only given as much as we can handle, but sometimes it’s difficult to remember how strong we really are until we accept it.  Our spiritual benefactors are around to offer help - if we ask for it, and if we have earned it.  Accept that help.