"The full pain for the living of losing someone from suicide is incomprehensible. What we don't realize is that the shock to those who have taken their own life is also very real. Death provides no escape from them. DP's (dead people) who have committed suicide discover a hard-core truth; you cannot kill yourself. Your essence, your state of mind, and consciousness remain, with full knowledge of why you took your life in the first place. Suicide won't solve any of the problems, it only eliminates the body as a place or means in which to work them out."

- Suzane Northrop, from her book Second Chance