Assisted Suicide Letter 3 to New Jersey State Senate December 2014

The following letter was sent to the New Jersey State Senate on December 14, 2014: 

Honorable Senator
New Jersey Senate
State House
P.O. Box 099
Trenton, NJ 08625-0099


Re:       Assembly Bill A2270/S382
            Please Vote No

Dear Senator:

Please consider:  You have no power over any human being.  No man has power over any other man and no man answers to any other man, only to God.  Please recall Jesus of Nazareth’s words to Pontius Pilate:  “You have no power over me”.  Please remember that we are in God’s world, not He in ours.  And if you want to know why you are here on the earth, you must ask your father and your mother, for it is they who worked with God to bring you here.

Consider the story of Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan, D-Middlesex, who told of his mother’s last days.  She had wasted away to 50 pounds and would tell him she wished she could die. 

Consider Mary, Jesus’s Mom, who watched Him die -- Taken from The Way of Divine Love**, March 26, 1923.  Jesus is relating His thoughts to Sister Josefa Menéndez as He carries His cross to Calvary:

“Come a little further with Me. . . . There you will see My blessed Mother, whose heart is pierced with grief.

“Consider the martyrdom of these two hearts.  What does this Mother love more than her Son?  . . .  And far from being able to help Him, she knows that the sight of her anguish increases His.

“And I, what do I love more than My Mother?  Not only can I offer her no comfort, but I know that the terrible plight in which she sees Me pierces her heart with a sorrow like My own; for if I suffer death in the body, she suffers death in her heart.

“See those eyes fixed on Mine, as Mine dulled and blinded with blood are fixed on hers!  No word is spoken, but what a world of intercourse our two hearts exchange in one heart-rending glance.  . . .”

Taken from The Way of Divine Love**, March 28, 1923.  Jesus's words to Sister Josefa Menéndez:

“We have now reached the summit [of Mount Calvary].  Look at the officiousness with which these hardened sinners surround Me . . . some seize hold of the Cross and lay it on the ground . . . others tear My garments from Me, reopening all My wounds . . . My blood flows afresh. . . .

“Think, dear souls, of My shame in seeing Myself thus exposed to the gaze of the mob . . . what physical agony, what confusion for My soul.  Think of the affliction of My Mother as she witnessed this terrible scene. . . .”

Consider that Jesus was offered a drink of wine mixed with myrrh and absinthe before He was nailed to the cross, which He refused.

The following quotation is taken from an article entitled “The Death of Jesus” by David Mathis, dated May 27, 2010 on the website desiringGod.org:

“According to an old tradition, respected women of Jerusalem provided a narcotic drink to those condemned to death in order to decrease their sensitivity to the excruciating pain . . . . When Jesus arrived at Golgotha he was offered . . . wine mixed with myrrh, but he refused it, choosing to endure with full consciousness the sufferings appointed for him (The Gospel of Mark . . .)

“This first wine represented an offer to ease the pain, to opt for a small shortcut—albeit, not a major one in view of the terrible pain of the cross, but a little one nonetheless. But this offer Jesus refused, and in doing so, chose “to endure with full consciousness the sufferings appointed for him.”

Our society is trying so hard to avoid relationships between human beings, running from one person to another trying to find the “right relationship” and not succeeding very well.  The thing is that human beings cannot and will not sustain each other.  We keep forcing people away from us by forcing them to find their own room, their own life, their own space, their own family.  Eventually a human being will stop trying to adjust to a society that does not want him or her. 

How society frowns on a homeless person asking for money for whatever reason, or a father wheeling his child in a stroller all over a city all day?  Have you ever noticed a mother with a paper cup and her two children, one about four years old and the other about 8 years old, asking for help?  Even though no human being in this whole wide world wants to ask any other human being for anything, sometimes it’s the best alternative to make ends meet.  Let there not be any other alternative.

Consider:  After all those months we dated and finally the big night.  John just up and left me the next morning.  All he wanted was a one-night stand?  How can I ever be with another man after giving myself so totally to John?  Oh, well, there’s always suicide.

Consider:  Oh, Mother, you’re not doing well?  You have cancer and only six months to live?  Remember the time that you hit me, embarrassed me in front of my friends, did not like my girlfriend, etc.  Have you ever thought about suicide, Mom?

Please consider:
            1.         Vote NO on A2270/S382. 
            2.         Please try practicing what Jesus preached, not what other human beings think that Jesus preached.

Our Lady of America, please pray for us.  By Thy holy and Immaculate Conception, Oh, Mary, deliver us from evil.
 
God bless you and God bless America.

Sincerely yours,

Bernardette Grant

**The Way of Divine Love, by Sister Josefa Menéndez, Reprinted by arrangement with the copyright holder:  Sands & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., 79 Larmans Road, Enfield, Middlesex, England 1949.  Copyright © 1972 by TAN Books & Publishers, Inc. (Pocketbook Edition).

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