One metaphysical teaching on suicide from the reincarnationists is one re-embodies quickly right back into the situation one left.
Depending on how much karma was balanced by the cause that produced the disease, one may or may not have the same disease.
Is there a way to keep track of your karma score? Like CreditKarma.com, but for karma?
KarmaKarma.com?
From the time I was a kid I imagined that if you committed suicide your punishment would be to live your exact life over again and over again “Groundhog Day” style until you got it right and didn’t commit suicide.
Interesting points.
Reincarnation is impossible since the soul is a feature and it is impossible to swap features. I cannot replace the flatness of my desk with the flatness of the floor. Silly Indian myths from 400 BC. But always fun to talk about with a few beers and a camp fire.
The Tibetan book of the dead teaches that a soul will meet six Buddhas and then will be offered six lights: grey, blue, white, etc. A suicide person will be attracted to grey and will return as a ghost. Thus, maybe ghosts in old hotels are ex-suicide people.
For Catholics, suicide is wrong, since God alone determines our birth and death and no one can say their suffering is extra ordinary. Lou Gehrig did not commit suicide. He was a gentle Christian man.