I would tend to believe in reincarnation and that suicide is not an escape - the pain or problems will have to be dealt with in this life or another. But the horror of what the suicide of a friend or loved one does to the living is incalculable. Today at work a colleage learned that a relative had committed suicide. He was found dead in a fetal position in the bathtub, by his 19 year old daughter. I can't stop thinking about that poor girl, what she must be feeling, the guilt, the horror, the self doubt. You can bet that scene of walking in and finding her father dead in the bathtub will haunt her Christmas seasons for the rest of her life.