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The Terry Schiavo Case - Murder Or Suicide?
George L. Faull
Dear Brother Faull,
What do you think of
the Terri Schiavo case?
ANSWER:
It is very simple!
If a woman is on a machine that keeps her heart beating and she is taken
off of it that may be lawful. If
something is done to prevent her heart from beating on its own, it is definitely
murder. If a woman is on a machine that keepers her lungs breathing
and she is taken off of it, that too, may be lawful. If something is done to prevent her from breathing on her
own, such as covering her mouth and nose, it is without doubt, murder.
Likewise, if a woman
is on a feeding tube and she is taken off of the feeding tube that also may be
lawful. If food and water are
withheld from her, it is without any question, murder.
If a woman shot
herself so that her heart stopped beating or her lungs stopped breathing, it
would be suicide. If a woman
stopped eating and drinking, it would be suicide.
If someone else did these things to her, it would be murder.
Terri could suck ice
cubes, eat Jell-O and pudding and swallow on her own.
If she approved of what her husband and the judges did in withholding
food and water from her, she committed suicide. If she did not, she was murdered.
It is as simple as
that. Should the government have
interfered? Florida law forbids
both assisted suicide/murder. No
judge has the authority to allow assisted suicide/murder.
I have no doubt that God will hold both the judges and her husband party
to murder.