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Buddha tried to get his followers to abandon the will to live, but he did not try to get them to commit suicide of the physical body--rather to kill out the cravings and desires which tied them to reincarnation and led to their return to that body.

-- Notebooks Category 9: From Birth to Rebirth > Chapter 2 : Rebirth and Reincarnation > # 197