I'd like to make an analogy, if I may. It isn't an exact parallel (most notably in scale), but through a narrow scope, there are valid comparisons to be made.
One of my uncles had diabetes. (Okay, more than one, but I'm just going to talk about one uncle in particular.) Over the years, his diabetes progressed. One by one, all of his limbs had to be amputated. The diabetes and the amputations were distinct from eachother, yet related. The diabetes was the cause of the amputations.
The amputations can be compared to the extermination of Jews. The diabetes can be compared to the extermination of disabled people. If we could have prevented the diabetes, that would have prevented the amputations. We've learned a lot from medical history, and are able to prevent diabetes in some cases, or at least control it better. If we are to prevent a future holocaust, we must learn from world history how to prevent it. We can't do that, if we refuse to admit how it starts. It starts with the concept that some life is less valuable than other life. From there, it escalates to some life being of such little value it has no right to continue. The bar continually moves up, to include more and more lives in the category of life unworthy of life.
The Holocaust did not just suddenly start with the mass extermination of Jews. Those who died prior to the climax of the Holocaust were just as much victims as those who died later. They were at one time just as much alive. They are now just as dead.
The holocaust began with the extermination of the disabled and mentally handicapped. The push for the euthanization of Terri and people like her is an EXACT parallel.
Actually Poland was the first on Hilter's list.
Joanna I apologize for not responding to your previous post to me from another thread when you asked if you ought to write to Gov. Bush.
My 2 cents worth is Yes write to Gov Bush. I think it is so important. Who's to know that yours might be the one letter to touch him in a way that no one else has so far.
I noticed a sig on the petition with a Jewish name and the comment was re the holocaust. I've wondered if folks in the countries that were victims of Hitler's reign feel much more strongly than we do about what may happen to Terri because they may have had first hand knowledge from their elders of the horrors that many suffered.