This is a question that's come up tolerably often, and I have no trouble answering it.
1) If you deliberately and forcibly terminate your life before it's time for you to die, you basically have to wait on the other side of things until the time's up. Since you haven't gone through the usual processing of experiences before and during death, you arrive on the other side with your personality and emotional state unchanged...and there you sit. When your time to die finally rolls around, you go through the usual process.
2) Yes. Prayer for the dead is always beneficial, if you have (or are willing to establish) a relationship with the god or goddess to whom you pray. Deities can do things we can't, and helping a soul in that intermediate state is one of those things.
3) When the soul of the suicide reincarnates, it'll be faced with the same challenge it failed to meet in the previous life. As with any serious karmic issue, this will repeat over and over again until the soul finally gets it right.
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Date: 2025-05-19 03:35 pm (UTC)1) If you deliberately and forcibly terminate your life before it's time for you to die, you basically have to wait on the other side of things until the time's up. Since you haven't gone through the usual processing of experiences before and during death, you arrive on the other side with your personality and emotional state unchanged...and there you sit. When your time to die finally rolls around, you go through the usual process.
2) Yes. Prayer for the dead is always beneficial, if you have (or are willing to establish) a relationship with the god or goddess to whom you pray. Deities can do things we can't, and helping a soul in that intermediate state is one of those things.
3) When the soul of the suicide reincarnates, it'll be faced with the same challenge it failed to meet in the previous life. As with any serious karmic issue, this will repeat over and over again until the soul finally gets it right.