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Originally Posted by sgregory  But can't I just suicide and then get another chance at learning lessons, maybe in a different body which didn't have to suffer all the time? |
Perhaps - if you existed in a vaccum and nothing you did had any consequences to anyone else. Life is not that neat and tidy though. The lessons you are here to learn are intimately connected and enmeshed with everyone and evrything else's. When you duck out on your responsibilities in this life, you fail to uphold your agreement with all the rest of the universe.
So when you commit suicide, not only are quitting YOUR lesson, you're keeping others from experiencing theirs as well. When you do this, you create MORE lessons to learn in your next experience because you go into your next experience with a debt. Buddhists call this cosmic debt "Karma".
In short; "Suck it up." Every experience is a gift from the Universe to help you be the person you are meant to be. Don't short-change yourself or the rest of the Universe by being pathetic and selfish.