Do people who commit suicide go to hell?

[1] I’d like to think not.

• [2] I don’t think there’s such a thing as hell. You just lose consciousness and that’s it.
• [3] Is there just… nothing?
• [6] Their last moments must be so sad.
• [7] According to reincarnation and karma theory, people are given trials and born into this world to overcome them. Suicide is running away from that (escaping the test, so to speak), so it’s said that you’ll face similar trials and hardships after death or in the next life until you overcome them.

[9] But why are we given such trials? What do we ultimately become after overcoming them?

• [10] It’s just a convenient excuse to prevent suicides. Really (and I’m not being sarcastic), they go to a happy place.
• [12] Once you overcome the given trials, your soul’s rank rises, and you don’t have to be reborn. You become a higher-ranking soul, a little closer to being divine.
• [14] To [12]: That’s scary.

[15] Suppose you eventually become a god, then what? Is that the end?

• [16] Maybe the soul ultimately merges with God? Perhaps there are duties as a god?
• [18] To [16]: Does the idea that only the chosen ascend mean that gods and Buddhas are conducting animal experiments?
• [24] To [18]: It’s not animal testing. Everyone gradually clears various tests over many reincarnations and eventually approaches divinity. No one is cast aside.
• [28] To [24]: Those who fail are probably demoted to something lower, right?
• [31] To [28]: No, that’s wrong. There’s no punishment. To face the same trial again, they are reborn and live a similar life.
• [19] We’re desperately climbing the stairway to heaven, sometimes using ropes.
• [20] There’s no afterlife or reincarnation, so you don’t need to worry about that.
• [21] Gods are quick to give selection tests, so humans are no different from lab mice, are they?
• [22] So, you’re assuming this isn’t hell, right?
• [23] That’s a bit scary. There’s probably nothing after death, right?
• [26] Well, committing suicide doesn’t mean you escape your current suffering. You’re given the trial of overcoming a similar life again and are reborn.
• [27] If you keep clearing the trials, you won’t have to be born on Earth anymore. You go to a different world? Dimension? And face the next trial there. Well, it probably won’t be as hellish as this world.
• [29] To [27]: I think Buddha said that one is liberated from all those ranks, ties, and such things.
• [32] To [29]: Maybe that’s how it ultimately ends up.

[30] What is the ultimate goal? And what happens once that goal is achieved?

• [35] To [30]: You start over from the beginning.

[37] To [35]: Why start over from the beginning?

• [36] To [30]: Merging with God probably brings peace. Your mind becomes tranquil.
• [33] Reincarnation theory can’t explain the human population explosion.
• [34] To [33]: If pachinko balls keep piling up in the hall, would you think, ‘Strange? There weren’t this many balls before’? There’s a stock, and apparently, souls can split in two.

• Pachinko parlors refer to places offering a game similar to pinball using small steel balls (tama), popular in Japan.

• [38] Even if you don’t remember, experience points are stored in your soul, like ‘New Game Plus’.
• [39] To [38]: I think you gradually get a ‘New Game Plus’ as you clear trials. People who mock ugly people are born with ugly faces due to karma, but conversely, people who don’t mock ugly people or are kind are born handsome or beautiful. Of course, if you’re born good-looking and then mock others, you’ll be born ugly next time.
• [40] There’s also the possibility of being reincarnated in another world with low stats.

[41] I want to become nothing and never exist again, what should I do? If they say I can’t become nothing even after death, then there’s nothing I can do…

• [42] According to books on reincarnation and karma, this world itself is like a hell created for trials, and the only way to escape is to live kindly towards others and overcome the trials, not run away through suicide.
• [43] So if you run away from the test, you just get another test.
• [44] Assuming there’s a heaven after death, does someone who dies at 90 have to live eternally as an old person, drooling at the corner of their mouth?
• [47] To [44]: Souls don’t have a form. However, they might take on a form to appear comprehensibly to family and friends.
• [45] Nobody knows anything about the afterlife.
• [50] Muslims can apparently go to heaven through suicide bombing, right?

[49] Can’t you become nothing even if you die?

• [51] At least according to books on karma and reincarnation, you don’t become nothing.

[52] Will I exist forever…? If so, that’s truly the worst…

• [54] You won’t fall [to hell]. You just have to do life over again from scratch.

[56] How can I become nothing and ensure I never exist again…?

• [57] Well, doesn’t everyone go to heaven? They’re living happily over there.
• [58] I think heaven and hell are ultimately created by the person themselves. Good deeds are heaven points, bad deeds or things you feel guilty about are hell points. In your final moments, you evaluate yourself and decide your destination. Since it’s what you yourself have seen, it’s more convincing than being prompted by King Yama.

• King Yama (Enma-sama) refers to the king in Buddhism who judges the deeds of the deceased and decides whether to send them to hell.

• [59] Wouldn’t it be good to pass on peacefully after finding satisfaction?

• Achieving Buddhahood (jōbutsu) primarily refers in Buddhism to the deceased going peacefully to the afterlife without getting lost, or attaining enlightenment through practice.

• [60] Personal desires are endless, aren’t they? You’ll find satisfaction living for others, probably.
• [61] Actually, the theory that this is heaven, or equivalent to a power generation facility or engine, is hard to dismiss.
• [62] It’s nothingness. I had general anesthesia for an accident once, and it was just nothing.
• [63] Even if there is an afterlife, it’s an extremely poor gamble where things could get worse and you might not be able to return, so please keep living.
• [53] There’s no hell or heaven. Only this world is hell.