Azizi...early in your post was this-

"I wonder, is it part of folks' religious beliefs or philosophy that anyone {including or especially people who commit suicide} really rests in peace after his or her death? Or-put another way-do people believe that all a person does after death is to rest in peace?"

Reflections about reincarnation took up most of your post, yet you ask about suicide and its ramifications as if reincarnation were a given.

As you might expect, I do not subscribe to past-lives theory, so my ideas about the relevance of suicide are partly shaped by my attitude. Still, I agree that suicide is 'usually' sad, regretable and unnecessary.

I do wonder how those who DO believe in reincarnation think it happens....and more importantly, when did it start? No one seems to 'remember' being a cave dweller 27,000 years ago. Did our very, very remote ancestors get reincarnated...and did THEY commit suicide? With what result? The metaphysics of such belief systems are staggering....How many 'souls' are there...and if everyone now living has one to be reincarnated, whose are they using, since the population used to be MUCH smaller? It seems like you must postulate infinite souls, yet an infinite number would never all get a turn, much less dozens of turns, 'resting' or not 'resting' in between turns.

No, it isn't necessary that you reply or debate me...it's just Bill D the sceptic again, wanting to be sure that various aspects of the issue are 'out here' to be chewed on by those who are not sure...