I was not aware you'd broken up that medicine circle, Daylia. You really tune in strongly to spirit stuff, I must say. I was there for some of that gathering, but just to give him a send-off, not to build a medicine wheel or anything like that. Seems to me that I left about half way through.

Azizi, I see it pretty much the way you do. Nothing much to add. I suspect that suicide causes further difficult karma to deal with farther on, rather than allowing one to "rest in peace", but there may be specific situations where it would be somewhat appropriate. I'm not sure one way or the other about that. The Japanese certainly thought that way, and so did the Romans.