For the individual who commits suicide the unpleasantness is further increased by the dreadful disappointment that death is not, as he had believed, a deliverance from his difficulties but that he, on the contrary, in addition to being still fully conscious of them, has now also inflicted upon himself the suffering that he will, to a certain extent, have to endure an abnormal spiritual existence with the prospect of a repetition of these difficulties in his next physical life on earth. He thus witnesses the fact that he cannot run away from his fate. Had he put up with those difficulties until death had occurred of its own accord, his spiritual existence would at least have been more normal and strengthening for his next terrestrial life.