(2022-09-10, 02:09 PM)tim Wrote: I agree. Sam Parnia has also said (amongst many noteable others in the field) that it's not recomended. Apparently we are all here for a reason, however small that may be or may seem to be, it's still important.
However, I don't believe that those who sadly do go through with it will be punished in any literal sense. It looks like they simply have to do it all again next time, so they are not escaping. That's what I've been able to determine, down the years (nearly 50 now) from reading thousands of testimonies as I'm sure everyone else has. Sorry for the off topic.
Fred Wolf said he had encountered a place where the souls of suicides dwell, where they lived a sad parasitic existence...though I don't think he could say whether this a was a permanent place.
Admittedly this is one person's account that may have been more biased by his own expectations than the reality.
According to Shushan's The Next World, Kenneth Ring claimed suicide attempters who have NDEs are actually less likely to have life-reviews...but this was a publication in 1980:
Ring, K. (1980). Life at Death: A Scientific Investigation of the Near-Death Experience. New York: Coward, McCann, and Geohegan.
I'd have to look for more up-to-date sources to see if this holds, but perhaps you know whether this has been shown to be false?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
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