The Spiritual Ethics of Suicide

[AngelofDeath]

You should start a new thread about the spiritual ethics of masters who end their life through spiritual means, which is "obviously" not suicide.

Tough to debate the ethics of masters when you are not a master yourself. Not being one, I don't think I would be qualified to justify their choices. Neither do I attempt to justify the choices of those who would commit suicide. This thread was for discussing the ethics and so I am giving my thoughts as to the details and possible consequences of such an action.

However, having been suicidal and being relatively human, I believe I do have some insight towards the experience of suicide. To attempt to equate stories of masters vanishing in to glowing mist or shrinking until there is only their nails through sheer will with suicide attempts such as through cutting, overdose, high jumps, etc is not only disrespectful to those masters, but also rather uncaring towards the conditions of the lives of individuals who achieve death by the forced destruction of their bodies.