I assume Cianna200 was asking about the Buddhist perspective of what happens to people who commit suicide, and like you answered, it's still the taking of a life, and so it carries all the devastating karmic consequences associated with the taking of life.purple planet wrote: But i think this is off topic completely - so i would like people to get back to the subject of how suicide is a very bad decision - sorry for derailing the thread
Taking your own life is also a kind of unwholesome desire — the desire to be rid of (Pali: vibhava-taṇhā), so the desire for suicide itself produces bad kamma as well.