Lasting Prevention Of Suicide Lies In Knowing The True Meaning Of Life
By: Lanu Pitan
Tags: Spirituality, Mental Health, Life Lessons, Suicide Prevention, Spiritual Secrets

When such questions of where we are going after death occupy our thoughts with sufficient strength, we may be led to the true meaning of life.

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Often we read in the newspapers, reports of suicide on daily basis, even from those whom we consider successful enough to want to desire life. The experts are not exempt, the poor and the rich are not immune, the religious people are not immune, as well as the very young. There has been a report of an eleven years old committing suicide. This scourge affects all in the human spectrum.

Major Risk Factor For Suicide Is Mental Health

The major cause of suicide is mental health. When the news reported the death of Gregory Eells, Head of Counselling and Psychological Disorder in Resilience, Executive Director, by suicide in Philadelphia in 2019. Stacey Cahn, clinical Associate of psychology at Rowan University has this to say, concerning the above,

‘’It shows that it is not something that happens to weak people. It can happen to anyone, including renowned experts in the field. Oncologists still get cancer. Psychologists are not immune to suicide.’’

Gregory Eells has earlier complained to his mum about the stress of the job. He was disappointed about not having time for his wife and children, who live in New York. He complained that the job was too demanding.

Other Contributory Risk Factors To Suicide

Other factors in people taking their lives, which could also be linked to mental health are:

1. Depression — feeling fed up with your circumstances or life generally that affects your mood and general outlook in life. This can cause a major shift in your health, including not been able to eat, sleep, or pleasure in anything.

2. Harmful use of alcohol or drugs — Uncontrolled use of hard drugs and alcohol can so affect mood and brain that the user becomes suicidal.

3. Job or Financial Loss — is a major risk factor. During the financial crash, including banks and the stock market crash, there were reports of lots of suicide or people having suicidal ideation. This is because people have lost the wealth they have built up over the years, including their pension pots.

I remember a sixty-five years old man came on the television and describing having lost thirty years of savings then. I realized that nothing is guaranteed in this world.

4. Illness — Some people lose hope when they are confronted with a major illness like cancer, or some other critical illnesses. They soon give up hope, especially if it is incurable or it has lots of pain or discomfort that goes with it.

5. Loss of a significant other — Some people find it difficult to cope with the loss of significant others in their life. The fashion, giant, Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010 when his mum died at 73, his reason, ‘’I can’t live without my mum.’’

6. Stress — is a major cause of mental health that could lead to being suicidal. There are many issues in life to contend with, job (like Gregory Eells above), catching up the Joneses, so to speak, not being satisfied, greedy, and so on.

7. Not Knowing The True Meaning Of Life

This is definitely an unfamiliar one as a major risk factor in suicide ideation. However, when those with suicidal ideation, start to ask questions like, Who am I, where do I come from, where do I go after death, and what is the purpose of my coming to this world? When such questions are occupying our thoughts with sufficient strength, we may be led to the true meaning of life.

When people do not understand the meaning and purpose of life, it is easy to snap, get depressed, and downcast when things go wrong.

But when they understand that challenges are part of life, indeed percusory to any success, then they are willing to learn the lesson that challenges bring.

Also, anyone with suicidal ideation will probably think that death ends everything. Therefore his willingness to terminating his life will only lead to more suffering in the beyond.

Life On Earth — A Gift From The Creator To Man

Life on earth is a gift from the Creator to man for a number of years for the purpose of experiencing on earth so that he is able to develop his spirit, before the transition to the other side (beyond).

While there is a natural death, there is also wilful termination of life on earth, known as suicide, Mankind is a spirit, the real inner core that animates the body. It is when that part leaves the body that we term death.

He who commits suicide appears to have thought that life ends with death. Not knowing that death on earth leads to the continuation of life on the other side where he came from. The world here is interlocked with the other side (the beyond), so there is no separation. The imaginary separation is just the invention of man. Life does not end with death, just like it does not start with the birth on earth.

What’s Next After Suicide?

Is everything over? No. Is the problem solved for the victim? No. Rather, it is the beginning of bigger problems. The last agonizing moments of one that commits suicide will come to life, vividly, in bold relief before him upon awakening on the other side. This may not disappear for decades.

Consider day consciousness and falling asleep. Someone has taken a narcotic because of a disturbing problem, which he does not want to face. He falls asleep and later wakes up to find out that the problem is still there.

We are not to judge, but to remind ourselves of the meaning of life. Helping exhortation can be found in the Bible, 1Corinthians 3, 16–17, ‘’

‘’Don’t you know that you yourself are God’s temple, and God’s Spirit lives in you. If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him, for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.’’

‘’And in Quaran 6:61, ‘’Do not kill the soul, which Allah has forbidden (to be killed)……’’

Conclusion — The Spiritual Secret

What we are saying is that suicide is never an option. And what awaits a suicide death at the other side is indescribable frightful and oppressive that nobody will ever want to consider it, IF ONLY THEY KNOW.