that can commit suicide is a bodhisattva. A bodhisattva might risk life and limb for the good of others. To seek one's death or to make death one's aim (even when the motive is compassionate, directed toward reducing suffering) is to negate in the most fundamental way the values and final goal of Buddhism by destroying what the traditional sources call the “precious human life” we have the rare good fortune to obtain. It is also said that a person who commits suicide will simply be reborn with the additional bad karma of the suicide to contend with. References Body