Children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. It goes without saying that the world we live in generates confusion. One might say that this confusion is self-inflicted, in that we are often inconsistent with what we say and what we do. Other times we find ourselves advocating contradictory principles. Such is the case in our own state regarding the issue of suicide, an essential respect life issue that is often overlooked. On one hand, our political leaders recognize a mental health epidemic which is an underlying cause for such self-harm, yet at the same time some of these same leaders have pushed our state to the threshold of the legalization of physician assisted suicide. In its 2025 budget, New York State has allocated three million dollars in suicide...