Sunday, September 12, 2010

An interesting thought..

I was just thinking, if one believes in reincarnation and being reborn in a new life after this one, would someone take their life in search for a new beginning? In other words, the native belief is that when one dies due to illness or injury, the spirit leaves the body and it is reborn when a newborn baby is given its name. So if someone is displeased with their current life, would it occur to them to take their life so they could start a new, maybe more enjoyable life? Maybe their beliefs could be the cause for several suicides. Just an interesting thought..
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  1. kyle p.September 12, 2010 at 11:54 PM

    I never thought about it that way. I hope they didn't take there own life based on this belief. it seems foolish to do in the first place. First you didn't what the next live is going to hold for you but I could so how they make think that there current live couldn't getting worse and they want to start over fresh.

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  2. FranSeptember 13, 2010 at 11:03 AM

    Woa, that is an interesting thought. But I think we don't get all the culture beliefs in this book because there is only so much room for so much detail. I think there may have been dishonor in taking ones own life before the Great Death..OR it was disrespectful to yourself or to the spirits or something like that. I'm not really sure though.

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