Hell: Not a Theme in the Afterlife

My files contain some 11,000 documented reports of afterlife encounters (AEs). Throughout the extensive collection, you will not find one report of a negative or hellish existence in the hereafter, even when the death was by suicide. My longtime research colleagues agree: In our combined repositories, judgment and punishment were not afterlife themes.

Two themes did emerge, however. First was the difference between our world and theirs. Discarnate personalities, including those who died by their own hand, described living in a place filled with acceptance, compassion, peace, joy, and love. They appeared happy, whole, and healthy. All judgment, pain, despair, abandonment, abuse, separation, disease, illness, and death are in this world, not theirs.

Not in their world as well, was the negative term "committed suicide." The word commit means to willfully do something wrong. Self-inflicted death is caused by a ravaging chemical imbalance within the brain. Similar to terminal cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, pneumonia, and other medical illnesses, the illness inside a suicidal brain can go undetected until it's too late. People die from cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, and suicide - they do not commit them.

The second theme carried a message, which the discarnates asked their families, friends, teachers, and other witnesses to deliver. "I wish I had known then what I know now. During my life review, I saw all of my problems. And I saw the lessons I would have learned from those problems. If I had just hung in there, everything would have worked out for me. I want you to tell others who are thinking about suicide: Don't do it. As much as you'll cheat the people you love, you'll be cheating yourself even more. You're there to learn certain lessons. Do not fail yourself. When life seems overwhelming, turn outside. Get help and help others."

Those of us bereaved by suicide can do the same. We can reach out - help others and allow them to help us. One way to begin is by knowing that our deceased loved ones are whole, happy, and at peace.

Dianne Arcangel

Author's contact: www.afterlife-encounters.com