What happens to people who

commit Suicide?

Suicide is the worst of crimes and dire in its results. H.P. Blavatsky
the greatest of all living crimes Suicide. Master S.B.
Suicides are not dead but have only killed their physical triad The suicides, who,
foolishly hoping to escape life, found themselves still alive, have suffering enough in store
for them from that very life. Their punishment is in the intensity of the latter. Master K.H.
Because suicide is not natural death but a highly unnatural form of death self-induced death
which, although very tragic and in many cases understandable and worthy of all our
compassion, is still spiritually unlawful the process is different from that which applies in
the case of ordinary and naturally occurring death, which has been outlined in the article
Death and The Afterlife and also When We Die.
The individual who commits suicide remains fully conscious, trapped in the Kama Loka (the
psychic or astral atmosphere surrounding and to some extent interpenetrating the physical
plane), able to see and witness everything thats going on on Earth in regard to the situations
and people from which they have severed themselves, and having to remain there for the
destined duration of what would have been their life had they not killed themselves.
For example, if the person was destined by their Karma to have lived for 90 years in that
lifetime but killed themselves at the age of 20, they will have to remain within Kama Loka
for 70 years and cannot progress any further until then. They are not able to undergo the
complete death process and enter into the state of Devachan or Heaven until then.
In this regard the Master K.H. explained that That particular wave of life-evolution must run
on to its shore. They are well and truly trapped and the suffering caused by being in that
state is far worse than the suffering they tried to escape from on Earth.

This fact of having to remain in Kama Loka for the entire remaining duration of the life they
had been destined to live is not in any sense a form of punishment doled out by a Higher
Power or Divine Being. It is merely due to the fact that each human being is comprised of
seven parts or components (generally called the Seven Principles in the teachings of
Theosophy) and the unchangeable Laws of Nature require that these separate from one
another in the right way, the right order, and at the right time, in order for everything to
proceed naturally and normally at the moment of death and beyond.
The person who dies a natural death does so because their Principles have gradually and
naturally run their entire course of destined duration and, of their own accord, ceased to
cohere with one another. But this is obviously not the case for the person who has murdered
himself or herself; the one who has taken their own life.
They find themselves just as alive afterwards, only now without the outer shell of the
physical body and in even more of a trapped state than before. Often filled with regrets and
longing to get back in touch with Earth life, it is relatively easy for them to either initiate
contact with a medium or for a medium to seek them out.
But this is the worst thing they can do, as it is spiritually unlawful for individuals to reinitiate
contact with the life of which they have purposely deprived themselves. The Masters and
Madame Blavatsky taught that the suicide victim who does this will often lose their soul
forever as a result, when their natural life term finally reaches its end. A dark fate will also
naturally be in store for the medium who enabled and consented for such a thing to happen,
as they will have created terrible Karma for themselves.
If only people would leave departed souls in peace and allow them to progress on their
eventual upward way! After describing some of these things, the Master K.H. poignantly
wrote, And now you may understand why we oppose so strongly Spiritualism and
mediumship.
At the end of the 19th century, when the teachings of Theosophy were given out to the world,
the concept of NDEs (Near Death Experiences) was unknown. It is only much more recently
and increasingly so over the past few decades that awareness and serious scientific study
of such things has come about.
It is interesting to note that the nature and description of almost every Near Death Experience
in our modern times is in perfect harmony with the explanations and details provided by
Theosophy. We refer here to the original and genuine Theosophy that of H.P. Blavatsky,
William Quan Judge, and the Masters and not that of later Theosophists such as C.W.
Leadbeater, Annie Besant, and Alice Bailey, since their explanations and teachings regarding
death and the afterlife are profoundly different from those of original Theosophy and are not
supported or validated by contemporary research into NDEs or other similar phenomena.
Compare the Theosophical teaching about the experience in store for one who commits
suicide (which we have outlined above) with what Dr Raymond Moody has to say in his
famous and highly regarded book Life After Life. With regard to interviews he had
conducted with people who had had a Near Death Experience as a result of a suicide attempt
from which they either survived or were medically resuscitated, Moody writes:

These experiences were uniformly characterized as being unpleasant. As one woman said,
If you leave here a tormented soul, you will be a tormented soul over there, too. In short,
they report that the conflicts they had attempted suicide to escape were still present when
they died, but with added complications. In their disembodied state they were unable to do
anything about their problems, and they also had to view the unfortunate consequences which
resulted from their acts. A man who was despondent about the death of his wife shot himself,
died as a result, and was resuscitated. He states: I didnt go where [my wife] was, I went to
an awful place. I immediately saw the mistake I had made. I thought, I wish I hadnt
done it. Others who experienced this unpleasant limbo state have remarked that they had
the feeling they would be there for a long time. This was their penalty for breaking the rules
by trying to release themselves prematurely from what was, in effect, an assignment to
fulfill a certain purpose in life.
In his subsequent book Reflections on Life After Life, Moody says:
All of these people agree on one point: they felt their suicidal attempts solved nothing. They
found that they were involved [in the other world] in exactly the same problems from which
they had been trying to extricate themselves by suicide. Whatever difficulty they had been
trying to get away from was still there on the other side, unresolved. One person mentioned
being trapped in the situation which had provoked her suicide attempt. [It was] repeated
again and again, as if in a cycle.
In Sylvia Cranstons excellent book Reincarnation A New Horizon in Science, Religion,
and Society she relates some of the observations and experiences of the American
psychiatrist George Ritchie during his own Near Death Experience. We quote here a
particularly relevant and tragic passage from that book, which includes excerpts from
Ritchies own book:
According to psychiatrist George Ritchie, one of the worst fates of a suicide is that after
death he can see the misery caused others by his act of self-destruction. Among the places Dr
Ritchie was taken by his celestial guide during his own near-death experience was a house
where a younger man was following an older one from room to room. Im sorry, Pa! he
kept saying. I didnt know what it would do to Mama! I didnt understand. But though
Ritchie
could hear the young man clearly, it was obvious that the man he was speaking to could not.
The old man was carrying a tray into a room where an elderly woman sat in bed. Im sorry,
Pa, the young man said again. Im sorry, Mama. Endlessly, over and over, to ears that
could not hear. In bafflement I turned to the Brightness beside me. But though I felt His
compassion flow like a torrent into the room before us, no understanding lighted my mind.
Several times we paused before similar scenes. A boy trailing a teenage girl through the
corridors of a school. Im sorry, Nancy!
Then there was a middle-aged woman begging a gray-haired man to forgive her. Ritchie
turned pleadingly to his guide: Why do they keep talking to people who cant hear them?
Then from the Light beside me came the thought: They are suicides, chained to every
consequence of their acts. This idea stunned me, yet I knew it came from Him, not me, for I
now saw no more scenes like these, as though the truth He was teaching had been learned.
It is thus very apt that the Masters refer to suicide victims as earth walkers!

In his article Suicide Is Not Death, William Q. Judge (a close colleague of H.P. Blavatsky
and co-founder with her of the Theosophical Society) expressed the matter like this:
The fate of the suicide is horrible in general. He has cut himself off from his body by using
mechanical means that affect the body, but cannot touch the real man. He then is projected
into the astral world, for he has to live somewhere. There the remorseless law, which acts
really for his good, compels him to wait until he can properly die. Naturally he must wait,
half dead, the months or years which, in the order of nature, would have rolled over him
before body and soul and spirit could rightly separate. He becomes a shade; he lives in
purgatory, so to say, called by the Theosophist the place of desire and passion, or KamaLoka. He exists in the astral realm entirely, eaten up by his own thoughts. Continually
repeating in vivid thoughts the act by which he tried to stop his lifes pilgrimage, he at the
same time sees the people and the place he left, but is not able to communicate with any one

Suicide rates are increasing dramatically in the 21st century and have been ever on the rise
since around the 1950s or 1960s. People had just as much opportunity and ability to kill
themselves in the many centuries before then but they didnt. What does this tell us about our
boasted modern civilisation in which science is mans God, materialism and sensuality his
creed, the television his talking Bible, and the internet his playground?
True spirituality is not fantasy or delusion, as the scientists and atheists would like people to
believe. It is the revelation of FACTS and REALITIES. The basic foundational premise of
Theosophy is that Truth exists and that there are Those who know. H.P. Blavatsky knew
exactly what she was talking about, as did Mr Judge, and the Eastern Masters of whom they
were the devoted pupils and disciples.
Theosophy is for those who want it, wrote Robert Crosbie, a student and associate of Judge
and founder of the United Lodge of Theosophists. Yes, the Truth is here the answer to every
question and the solution to every problem you may have if you are willing to receive it.
WE DEDICATE THIS ARTICLE TO ALL THOSE PRECIOUS SOULS
WHO HAVE ALREADY CHOSEN TO END THEIR OWN LIVES AND TO
THOSE WHO ARE STILL WITH US BUT STRUGGLING WITH DARK AND DEPRESSIVE
THOUGHTS AND CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE.
MAY THEY ALL FIND PERFECT PEACE.