The Spiritual Ethics of Suicide

[Jade]

I think this is an interesting subject, one I was even just pondering yesterday. One thing to take into consideration is how your suicide (whether deliberate or subconscious) affects others' life plans. Any death, especially suicide, has a ripple affect on those in the life around the deceased. I am sure some of that is affected by the deceased maybe feeling/actually being able to operate better in a different density? Who knows.

What I was specifically thinking of was the case of the Collins brothers, when one brother committed suicide, his dying wish was for his family to go out to eat and donate $500 to an unsuspecting server working at a pizza shop. The family recorded the interaction and put it on youtube, and so many people have been touched to do their own generous giving, and now the surviving brother is "forced" to travel around the country, tipping servers $500, because of all of the online donations and support he's still being given a year later. Could this man have done the same work alive? Perhaps, maybe, maybe even better. Did his "sacrifice" in the end make the world a tangibly better place? I think so.