How does nature relate to freedom?

Troubles which seem so hard to bear and which have tempted many to shake off the mortal clothing before Nature has finished her work must be carried by the ones cursed by earthly environments unless they can overcome their evil lot by natural laws. 

No law of Nature can be broken without the offender being punished. 

To take life whether your own or another stamps you as a breaker of the law. Your victim may be placed high by your wicked work, for you have released him by adopting some natural destroying power. 

But when you take your own life to escape earth's hardships you have simply darkened your spiritual formation and deprived it of light to ascend and suffer far more after passing out in that manner than you did while in the body, for you have added murder to your other ills.

Bear patiently the trials of life and seek release from errors of judgment and ignorance by looking beyond the narrow confines of your environments and the journey will end in a joyous light of freedom, which will carry you so far above earth's sorrows that you will look back over the paths your weary mortal feet had travelled and thank every hardship you had endured for the experiences which had broadened your understanding, without which you would not be able to accept the light so freely offered your spirit when it receives its freedom by nature's work.

—Robert G. Ingersoll in Spirit