Master K.H. writes:

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The rule is, that a person who dies a natural death,
will remain from "a few hours to several short years,"
within the earth's attraction, i.e., in the Kama-Loka.
But exceptions are, in the case of suicides and those
who die a violent death in general. Hence, one
of such Egos, for instance, who was destined to live --
say 80 or 90 years, but who either killed himself or
was killed by some accident, let us suppose at the age
of 20 -- would have to pass in the Kama
Loka not "a few years," but in his case 60 or 70
years, as an Elementary, or rather an "earth-walker";
since he is not, unfortunately for him, even a "shell."
Happy, thrice happy, in comparison, are those disembodied
entities, who sleep their long slumber and live in dream
in the bosom of Space!
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