Suicide is caused by that peculiar mental state which sometimes takes possession of an individual without any assignable reason, but as a rule it is brought about through idleness and an abnormal desire to escape the trials of life; but the person who employs himself in the pursuit of some useful aim in harmony and in keeping with his natural aptitudes this exertion is not disagreeable and his life passes quickly in a congenial occupation and he bears with favor the vicissitudes of life, as he has plenty of patience and recognition, for he looks forward to the things in life and his future existence of spirit life. No person has a right to take their own life, for that right belongs to God exclusive; and he who voluntarily commits suicide contravenes the providential ordering which sent him into earth life. Those who take their own life because they are tired of living, have made a sad mistake, for if they had employed themselves in some kind of work their life would never had become a burden to them.

There is only one opinion to be expressed in regard to those persons who resort to suicide in order to escape from the troubles, disappointments and responsibilities of earth life, for they are weak ones who lack courage to bear up under the necessary annoyances that earth life always brings. The good spirits of the Astral Plane ever encourage and assist those who bravely bear their trials and sufferings, as well as disappointments, for the tribulation of life are trials and expirations; and happy will be those who bear them without complaint, and great will be their reward. On the contrary, miserable will be those who expect to be fortunate from what they impiously call good luck. Fortune and luck may favor man for a time, but he is made to feel it afterwards all the more bitterly. Those who have driven their unhappy fellow beings to suicide and have been the cause of their committing this great deed of despair will be held responsible for the consequence of their work and terrible indeed will be their punishment, for they will have to answer for their fellow creature's life the same as for murder.

Further it is not well for a man to become disheartened in his struggle against adversity and allow himself to die of a broken heart or despair.