What awaits suicides?

Some of the recovered suicide victims described terrifying experiences: darkness, hopelessness, constant recollection of the reasons that led to suicide, and terrifying apparitions. Above all, they were constantly aware of the harm their suicide had (or would have) caused their loved ones.

However, the accounts written by Kenneth Ring are different. His "suicides" found themselves in a "gray space," a "twilight zone." The prevailing feeling was relief, peace, detachment from the body, and music (classical, but at the same time "metallic," "dull," "echoic") echoed around them. The dying saw their lives, and when they "returned," the world seemed more colorful, more beautiful.

Other researchers studying the NDEs of suicides have recalled that some dying people encountered not a "bright light" and "goodness personified," but another being, reminiscent of the Lord of Death from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Dark, with black wings, but not evil. Suicides especially described his ironic sense of humor and unmistakable concern for their well-being. He usually tried to show them what they still had to do in life, though he never forced them to return.