It's Not Over

Some people commit suicide thinking it will end their problems.

It won't, I can say with complete certainty.
You think people don't have problems anymore just because they're dead? Of course they still don't get along with Aunt May. Of course they're still pissed off at their problems and the people who caused them. Actually, the angriest dead people I've ever heard from are the ones who were murdered. Obviously they're pissed off at the douche who went and killed them. (No, I've never solved a murder. I've never tried. Not that I wouldn't if asked.)

That isn't to say they don't have a clearer view of what's really going on- dying really brings a lot of unknown things to light. But people do not stop being people just because they're not in their bodies anymore.

And by the way, they DO care- very deeply- what happens to their bodies. They LOVE IT when you visit their graves and leave them things, light candles for them, display their pictures, etc. They love to be remembered and loved.

What do victims of suicides tell me? "Damn, that was a stupid thing to do." Every time.

Because if one ends ones own life, they have to start all over and deal with it all AGAIN.
If that doesn't fit with your religious ideas, I'm not going to waver on what I know just to make you happy.

One more thing the dead folks want you to know. People seem to get it in their heads that when we die, we go somewhere far away and look down at Earth from somewhere in the sky.

But as much as it feels like they're gone, they're right here. If they like you, they'll hang around you. But not always- it's not like they don't have other things to do. Having a life doesn't go away just because you have a death.

I still cry at funerals- usually more than anyone else.
Life is a very sacred thing. You'll never experience things as you once did again once you die, so for the love of all that is good in the world, respect life and all that lives.