Suicide is not justified

Kurma Dasa: Many guests attended Srila Prabhupada’s evening lecture on Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 2, verse 9. An especially lively question-and-answer session followed. A young woman asked:
"How do you regard suicide, and would there be any exceptional circumstances that might justify it?"
"Suicide is not justified," replied Prabhupada. "It is a violation of nature’s law. Nature gives you a certain type of body to live in for certain days, and suicide means you go against the laws of nature; you untimely stop the duration of life. Therefore one becomes a criminal. Suicide is criminal even in ordinary state laws. One cannot commit suicide."
Another woman asked for a scientific explanation of how someone could receive enlightenment simply by chanting Hare Krishna.
Prabhupada explained: "Suppose you are sleeping. If I vibrate some sound, you can hear and can wake up. No other method will act. Suppose you are sleeping, then I have to call ‘Mr. or Mrs. Such-and-Such, please get up, get up, get up’. You get up. Similarly, at the present moment it is our sleeping stage. Therefore, this transcendental vibration will awaken us to spiritual consciousness. Just to try to understand. When one is asleep, the sound vibration can help us. Similarly, at the present moment, in our material condition of life, we are sleeping. This transcendental sound vibration will help you. That is the process."
A man enquired: "Each of us has come here tonight sort of looking for a bit of a miracle or a bit of a statement that can stamp us, to hold us, to illuminate us …" The audience laughed at the man’s curious turn-of-phrase. "Now, you travel in a spirit. Can you tell us the wonderful feeling of enlightenment to enter this spirit? We don’t know how to exactly enter this spirit and travel as you travel."
Prabhupada nodded his head. "That I am distributing. You chant at home, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare, and see the result." [laughter] "It is not difficult. If there is no expenditure, there is no loss. You chant Hare Krishna mantra, and you see the result at home. You haven’t got to travel. You sit down at your home and chant Hare Krishna."