Attachments are not things that we can immediately give up. Even death is not the means for becoming freed from attachments, because the living entity carries his different conceptions of life from one body to the next, just as the air carries aromas from one place to the next. Sometimes people foolishly think, “I’m suffering so much. I have to become free from the suffering. Let me take my own life so that I can end the suffering!” However, they do not know the stringent laws of nature. They do not know how the soul is eternal, and how the attachment that the soul has at the time of death carries him to his next body. Therefore, becoming free from attachments is a gradual process. We have to decrease the degree of absorption that we put in connection with this body and increase the absorption in those activities that will free us from identification with this body. Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment, when applied to the self-realized devotees, opens the door of liberation.
LFD Vol 3,Cultivating Krishna Conciousness Pg 166, 1st paragraph onwards