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Living Each Day

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On May 11, at my parish, I attended “An Educational Evening on Opposing Assisted Suicide” sponsored by the archdiocese’s Family Life/Respect Life Office. The main speaker, Ed Mechmann, Esq., opened wide closed minds. This information is on the USCCB’s website www.usccb.org/toliveeachday in a statement. The bishops expect Catholics to be leaders in spreading information to family and friends, those who either have closed minds on this issue, or are being lulled by the proponents of assisted suicide.

When celebrating her 91st birthday at home, a terminally ill cancer patient received a delivery of 30 yellow tulips. She generously sent them to the residents at a local assisted living facility. Later that week, while being treated in the hospital, she visited and prayed with a younger terminally ill cancer patient. Transcendent joy and solace reached people from this elderly terminally ill woman. This will not happen if New York succumbs to the heavily funded campaign that targets the most vulnerable, i.e., the elderly, terminally ill and disabled.

Gloria G. Ausubel

Port Ewen