Hi! I sent this in before while you were on hiatus. I have a character who commits suicide and ends up in the afterlife (an afterlife where people can kind of like receive the things they were missing in life) and while there she starts recovering from depression (through the support she finds from others there) and she falls in love with someone too. Is this something dangerous to depict? I don't want to make anyone more likely to commit suicide by making it seem like it fixes things. Thanks :)
CW: suicide
Oof, this is a difficult one to answer. I’m honestly leaning towards this not being a good thing to write.
But if you do still want to go through with it despite that, I do have some suggestions that lets you keep a lot of your story the same: have your character have been suicidal in life, but their actual death have been unintentional / an accident - something not under their control. Another thing I’d recommend is not having your character being actively suicidal - perhaps experiencing suicidal ideation rather than outright suicidal thoughts.
Even still, though, this is a very sensitive topic to write about, and I do highly recommend you reconsider.
Whatever one’s religious beliefs (or lack thereof) are, the time you spend on alive on earth is important. Stories and fiction are important influences on our lives, and if a single person gets the message from your story that dying and going to the afterlife is the answer to curing their depression, it would be a true tragedy.