How to deal with suicide?
When suicide happens very often no one knows why. Please make sure you do not judge the person by his/her last act in this life and think they are bound to have a bad rebirth because of it.
Ajahn Brahm offers the simile of the university entrance exam to show how the process works. You are not measured by the last thing you do in our life, you are measured by the whole of your life. So never judge a person by one act they did, they did thousands, millions of other acts too.
Ajahn Brahm also gives a blessing at the end of the evening Q&A session to share merits with the departed person, the family members and friends.
(This short video clips was extracted from the Q&A sessions of the 9-day meditation retreat at Jhana Grove in July 2023 led by Ajahn Brahm. If you would like to view the entire retreat here is the KZfaq playlist: • 2023 July | 9 Day Retr... )