Craig

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It feels insensitive for me to think that all those people who lost their lives on 9/11 planned it that way.

We look upon the transition called death as a great tragedy. That's only because we don't see it as just a transition into another place. If we lose our house and must move, we don't regard that as a tragedy. If we must move to another country and start a new life there, we don't see the act of getting on the plane to go there as a tragedy. When we realize that we all will leave the Earth plane in some way, then it becomes just a transition out of the life we're accustomed to into another setting. The only way we can graduate is for the body to shut down. That happens through old age, disease, accident, and murder. They're just different ways of graduating.

We regard the act of passing by someone's hand as heinous because it was a choice one person made to end the term in Earth school by another. Since it's a willed act, we feel it didn't need to happen, and we regard it as a tragedy. But it's no more a tragedy than someone 105 years old passing from heart failure in her bed. It's just another way to shut down the body so the person can graduate.

Suicide, on the other hand, is a choice. The plan was for the person to learn in Earth school and transition from it when the lessons were learned. When a person cuts short the lessons, by ignoring the counsel given constantly from those who aid us in our development or by leaving by ending this lifetime, that is not part of a plan, as far as we can surmise. In other words, we always have free will in our own choices about what we do, so those choices can’t be planned. The circumstances and opportunities to learn lessons are planned, but whether we learn the lessons or cut our lives short is an act of free will that can’t be planned ahead of time.
However, we need to be clear that there is no judgment of a person who leaves the Earth plane through suicide. They are met with love and compassion because the struggles were too much for them. Then they are aided in unraveling the turmoil they were going through and growing beyond it. They just have to do that on the next plane of life, not this one.