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Hilarion: This brings us naturally to the animals because the animals experience this constantly, this movement between life and death. Some experience this quite rapidly such as with bacteria or insects with a very short life span.
Some experience it within the presence of human beings. Most commonly with their beloved dogs and cats most commonly. They do this oftentimes with a very important lesson about love for people.
Do animals experience suicide is the question posed and as humans do this so often the animals that are most closely associated with humans, the dogs and cats, will indeed experience this in their own ways. But, they often understand intrinsically and easily that this is not a suicide that comes from a place of darkness, deep depression and great struggle. Rather, they find this place and just let go. Then they find a place and it is full of others and greater joy; an experience of what typically for dogs and cats will be playful and running about and experiencing great potentially helpful smells, and sights and sounds.
So, this is why it is so confusing for people to try to understand about suicide in animals because it is different than people for the most part. This is not to say that some animals let go with struggle and difficulty. But, it is generally quite rare. Instead what they do recognize is that whatever is happening to them is what triggers this letting go response in which the physical body may still be alive but the consciousness associated with it has already moved on.
