--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozg...@...> wrote:
>
> Buck wrote:
> > Actually, does anybody remember what Charlie Lutes said about suicide?
> > His stories.
>
> I seem to remember Charlie talking about how suicide is looked upon as a
> bad thing in Indian philosophy but if suffering from cancer he could see
> why a person my want a way out.
Several relatives of my parents' generation committed suicide, but they had
lived long full lives and were suffering terribly with failing health. I can
understand their decisions.
However, with Dan, I can't help but regard his suicide as nothing more than a
giant "Fuck you!" to all his friends and family. Granted, my opinion is rooted
in not knowing him well. He was more of an acquaintance than a friend. I knew
him from wed night satsang, and I've been there all of a few times over the
last few years.
> In Indian philosophy suicide leads to getting stuck in some kind of
> "purgatory", not quite dead but not alive either. And of course I've
> got a movie for this: "Wristcutters" which is well worth a watch. What
> really happens to someone who commits suicide we really don't know but
> telling folks they could get stuck in a "purgatory" might be useful
> prevention.
If there's anything in TM resembling a fire'n'brimstone dogma, it's the idea
that karmically, suicide is the absolute worst thing you could *ever* possibly
do. What I was told is that after suicide, everything's basically the same
except you no longer have a physiology through which to work it all out. In the
TM worldview, that's hell. Of course, that could all be a bunch of silly
superstition. I don't know if TM's dogmas about suicide are true, but I can
certainly understand why they would be regarded as true. Suicide can be a
selfish, really really shitty thing to do.
