Each and every suicide in the world diminishes you and me. No matter if you don't know the person, their family, or even if they live on the other side of the world from you -- their decision to end this life prematurely affects you. It silently shatters a part of you -- even if you are not conscious of it.
Each and every one of us has a unique role to play in this world -- no one else can play this
part. No one is supposed to end their own life, when they do, it's as if a link in a chain is broken and it slows down the progress of humanity. We all need each other. When someone commits suicide it's as if everyone around the world shrinks a little.
We are shrinking a lot! The World Health Organization estimates that each year approximately one million people die from suicide 1. Based on these figures someone somewhere in the world, commits suicide every 40 seconds. The WHO predict that by 2020 the rate of death will increase to one every 20 seconds.
I have been seeing angels since I was a baby. I see them physically as I would see someone standing in front of me and I see them all the time. I see a guardian angel behind each and every person regardless of religion.
Most of the time I see the guardian angel three steps behind the person they are guarding, looking down on them and looking ahead as if helping to guide the person forward into their future. However when someone is thinking of ending their own life their guardian angel looks very different. It is no longer three steps behind but has moved forward and into the person. It's as if the person and his or her guardian angel have become intertwined.
When this happens the guardian angel is doing its best to try and kindle a light there; to show the person that there is some hope. The guardian angel, aided by other angels, family , friends and strangers, will do its best to stop this person committing suicide. They will try and bring the light of love into the pit of darkness that this person is experiencing. Sometimes I will see a different angel, other than a guardian angel, in front of the person holding a light. These angels are trying to encourage the person to have self confidence and self belief in themselves, to see the hope that is there for them.
Sometimes, even with all the help and love they are given by family and friends, by professionals and by the angels, the person may still feel unable to climb out of that darkness. The pain is just too much - they cannot help themselves and take their own lives.
No one is supposed to take their own life.
If however someone does commit suicide the angels have told me that they are wrapped in a blanket of God's love and are taken straight to Heaven.
Source: WHO
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We are each individuals and you cannot speak for anyone but yourself. There are people every day that do not find life worth living because of unbearable pain. It is the ultimate in individual liberty--to decide one's own fate--and the ultimate in tyranny to attempt to deny that right.
While there are those that "try" to commit suicide and fail because they intend to fail and it is usually because they are desparate for someone else to give them attention and answers.
There are, however, those that make the decision and succeed because it is the right decision for them. It takes an arrogant, sadistic person to PRESUME to judge the right or wrong of this decision.
Food for thought for the folks who believe that sort of stuff.
I don't believe in "guardian angels" and I believe that sometimes the life some lead are so burdened with pain that self-determination is warranted. People who rattle on about life being precious have not walked in another's shoes.
What I don't support are idiots who do it impulsively - or who take out their family or others as well. If you have family - children, spouse - it's a much more difficult situation.
Me, as an example, I have no family. I have no close friends any longer. I've deliberately distanced myself from friends. No plans to jump off a bridge or any other action but I have consistently felt that I have nothing left to offer. I take chances & push limits - I have nothing to lose. I believe opportunity or fate will present itself.
I actually wrote about the feelings that accompany this kind of desperation in a fantasy-fiction short story that involved an angel (which was presented as possibly a construct of the main character's mind), so maybe that's why I'm replying. This article reminds me of my fiction. I'd post a link, but I'm afraid of getting harrassed by the kind of people who frequent here.
One think that's kept me alive so far is thinking, "Burden? So what! The world is poo and *deserves* to be burdened!" - anger and living for spite sometimes really keeps me going. So anyone here who tells me I ought to die is only fueling my life at this point.
I miss him like hell, but I can't tell you he "shouldn't" have done it. I was there for the pain, the paranoia, the miracle of even being able to get up in the morning when your reality is totally flat, nothing moves you, excites you, calls you to action. What do you do when your own body is telling you not to live? He had done his thing. Finished his mission. Inspired a thousand kids to think and love the language and be something. What courage he had! Let him rest lady. He ran a damn good race. Don't make him wrong.
You are welcome to your opinion, but, I prefer mine for me. And even if the first part of my statement seems an error in you view, My last part on desiding to leave it , still stands for me.
Thank you, that is all that I ask!:)
However, when you ended it with *If however someone does commit suicide the angels have told me that they are wrapped in a blanket of God's love and are taken straight to Heaven* I believe they are speaking to you in terms of your belief, "we go to heaven when we discarnate." In all honesty, my revelation suggests discarnated lifeforces doesn't go to heaven, Purgatory is Catholicism's name for the place of the discarnated before reincarnating. Heaven is the state of consciousness when one accepts all the natural magnifiers [opposites] of earth and refuse to judge then with abstract magnifiers
like good and evil, pretty and ugly and the like.
Knowing my friends who struggled with mental illness and considerable traumas that Hollywood couldn't make up - if there was a God who deemed them taking their lives was a sin, I wouldn't want to know such a God. I've seen them struggle, fight valiantly, be abandoned and betrayed by their family... I doubt even Jacob could have come out on top if he had a severe mental illness and no support system.