| Show suicide is 11 ner ever justi justifiable flable inn law defines d fines it ik suicide or flo fito de so r in ono olle who voluntarily his own I 1 life ife but dinkes the alio term include tile alao who lose their lives lit in malicious to lill others says black bone the iho law 1 ro of 0 gingland lIn En gland glaud wisely whily and ily considers that no man biath n power to destroy destio life but by commission it loin from god the author of it ami as ai thu the suicide is 13 guilty of it a double off engo ono one spiritual in in eveld ead ining tho the prerogative of tho the Alin igli ty anil and rushing into lna his immediate presence uncalled for the alo other tern telu against the kin kill who hath nu all interest in the preservation oi of nil fill his subjects tho the law lav has therefore ranked this as a 0 peculiar species of felony being bt m a felony there may m ly 1 access series to it thul thai it if A B to lil kill hini him selfA golf A is n g guilty of wo we lind find in in history that ridley and latimor latimer stood ct at the stalio stake for foi heresy to tho the body of each friends bad fas toned a baj bag of powder ponder aiming to bring ann a speedy termination tormina tiou to tho clio sufferings latimer died speedily for when the flames reached tho the pow dor der his hia sufferings were at an end but with ridley tho the f ahro iro smoldered emol lored till a spectator loosened tho the fuel and the flamo flamed i touching tho the powder brought death now yas was this hastening of douth suicide on tho the part of ridley and latimer or on tho the part of their fi lends friends or 01 both we 0 o may spring B ang many qu erries suppose two shipwrecked ma marinero mariners aro are clinging to the same earno fing mout cannot sup port buth both ono or both must dio die should ono push tho the othir other off ou ho he is 13 guilty of murder ana nd should ono one surrender his possession for his hi 8 s sake is is lio lie too guilty of sui am cide christ tells tella us greater gi eater lovo love hath no man than that ho he lay hy down his hia lifo life for ilia his friend but by the law that man thereby becomes a suicide then many whoso choso ine marlos the world now honors BIO are suicides Buic idos what is is tho the act of tho the cashier rioters prefers death to the surrendering og 0 his keys or of tho the engineer who rides to death to save other livos lives or 01 of the ibisi ph BI ciau cian who attends victims d amin aing a fa tal scourge and so BO brings death to himsel him fl aio Aro these nil all suicides if so the laws is is too stern stein and the world recognises recognizes this in in refusing to call such acts by their right names john maynaro and arnold yon von cid are called be heroes roes who sacrificed themselves for their follows wo will agree then that suicide is sometimes justifiable but that justification depends defends upon tho the motive pr prompting om pling tho the act and the motives of human notions actions none but god oil may judge if by lay ing down a life others are saved tho the world calls such an net act praiseworthy the orthodox bays bay wait till god calls you but implies in that that each shall use his own judgment as to what a call is wo we cannot draw the lino line and say bay that hero suicide ceases to be honorable and becomes dishonorable lot each seo that athis his motives art anre pure end and await the judgment of his creator in his case in fact I 1 would not consider myse myself if competent to decide that ono one who finds this lire life a career of harsh usage is not justified in terminating it I 1 would suppose lie ho were not but his motives uro are not clear to me and I 1 am content to leave the verdict where it belong with the creator T |
