What can be said about people who commit suicide and their relationship with death?
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"Suicide is not an embrace of death, but a desperate escape from the unbearable pain of life; neither the one who fears death nor the one who seeks it truly understands its nature."
According to Osho, those who commit suicide are not fearless or in love with death; they too fear it, but life has become even more terrifying and painful, so death appears the lesser agony. Their beliefs about soul or afterlife reflect psychological convenience, not truth. Suicide is an escape from intolerable life, not insight into death; neither the death-avoider nor death-seeker truly knows death.
People who kill themselves are scared of death too; life just hurts so much that ending it seems easier, but that doesn’t mean they understand death.
Why this matters practically
- Meet despair with compassion and relieve life’s pain instead of judging it.
- Notice how mood and health shape your beliefs; look for truth beyond comfort.
- Care for body and mind to reduce hopelessness and reopen gratitude and trust.
- Notice how mood and health shape your beliefs; look for truth beyond comfort.
- Care for body and mind to reduce hopelessness and reopen gratitude and trust.
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