“I can’t take the suffering anymore. My life is hopeless. The depression is overwhelming. The only way out is suicide,” many people have despaired in moments of dark misery.

When facing bleak options, it’s good to know there’s a better way than suicide. Choose Life!

Death is like walking from one room into another and closing the door behind. We never return to the room previously inhabited, but continue to live and have to work out the problem of being. The setting may change but the victim’s thoughts do not until spiritualized and improved. The victim leaves all his friends, family, and home behind, but takes his thoughts with him.

It’s easier to face the evil thoughts now than to face the same dark thoughts in the hereafter plus deal with the belief that suicide was a mistake.

Death does not end life, for life is eternal. It cannot be ended. Try as a mortal may, attempts to end life never succeed. The efforts to self-destruct only force the victim to ultimately realize that problems cannot be escaped, but must be dealt with head-on and worked out spiritually.

There is no better time or place then here and now to work out problems and find solutions. God is an ever-present help. The belief that suicide is a help to anyone is a myth.

Mary Baker Eddy wrote in Miscellaneous Writings, “The error of supposed life and intelligence in matter, is dissolved only as we master error with Truth. Not through sin or suicide, but by overcoming temptation and sin, shall we escape the weariness and wickedness of mortal existence, and gain heaven, the harmony of being.” (page 53)

The solution to self-destructive thoughts is not death, but understanding Life.

Life is good. Life is God. Life is Love. Life is spiritual. Life is not in matter, and cannot be taken away by matter. The gateway to eternal bliss is not a grave, but increased spiritual understanding.

Forsake the temptation to commit suicide, and choose Life! It’s the happier better way.