'Euthanasia' in the Third Reich: Lessons for today? (Schiavo?)

Ethics & Medicine ^ | April 1, 2002 | J A Emerson Vermaat

[madprof98]

It is man’s incredible rebellion and arrogance to think he can terminate life because his limited judgment tells him that such life does not or does no longer have any meaning.

They should inscribe this on a monument to Terri Schiavo, preferably one erected on the site of that "hospice" where she is being murdered.

[bvw]

That Hospice is an extermination camp. The "police" (how they dishonor their profession those scum in uniform in Pinellas Park) are exactly extremination camp guards.

[thomas16]

You're going off the deep end, get some help.

[bluesagewoman]

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[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Thanks for posting this.

[cpforlife.org]

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[DBeers]

Thanks for posting this.

You are welcome.

[bvw]

Tell us, Thomas, exactly how is that at this time Hospice any different than a death camp. Can Terri be given water? Or do armed guards lock her in and prevent any attempt to keep her from starving? It is a death camp.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

'That Hospice is an extermination camp. The "police" (how they dishonor their profession those scum in uniform in Pinellas Park) are exactly extremination camp guards.'

It's certainly a test run. Who can study this and conclude otherwise? And Felos is a lunatic.

[redgolum]

The eugenics movement started in England, was conceived on a grand scale in the USA, and was "perfected" in Germany.

Europe is marching down the same slope it did in the early 20th century, and the US is merrily following along once again.

Come Lord Jesus.

[ex-snook]

Thanks for the alert.

This article makes one think about possible comparisons of the Nazi mentality to that growing in this country.

The Nazis deemed people perfection as the common good - wipe out those less than perfect, physically or politically. A politically imposed Darwinism.

In this country, the Schiavo case in the health world parallels our striving for perfection in the economic world. People are a cost and the least cost is the common good. If the government is a support structure for those with less capability, then that government structure has to be eliminated or first weakened.

We are not our brother's keeper - the devil take the hindmost. Economic Darwinism.

[grassboots.org]

This is the video that should be shown on the news everynight - it is even more powerful than the balloon video.

http://web.tampabay.rr.com/ccb/videos/Terri_Big_Eyes.rm

This is not reflex action - she heard the doctor, she opened her eyes as wide as she could to impress him.

Even Fox news has ignored this clip.

[nuconvert]

You're right. I hadn't seen that before.
When was that?

[knittnmom]

To my untrained eye, that baby looks only starved - not "monstrous". Poor thing.

[planekT]

BTTT.

[green pastures]

I've noticed that, too.

I got into the discussion with another Freeper the other day. I was told I was "making a huge leap," "it wasn't a valid comparison." That "the Nazi's wanted to exerminate an entire race."

I thought that person had perhaps not known about the extermination of the disabled by the Nazis. From a quick search on google, I posted, " If one looks at history, it becomes clear just where the practice can lead. In Nazi Germany euthanasia became an obsession, eventually resulting in the belief in eugenics or the achievement of a genetically "superior" race. Beginning with the mentally and physically disabled, 200,000 of whom were systematically murdered between 1939 and 1945, euthanasia later became part of the Nazis’ final solution. Jews, Gypsies, Gays, Communists, German dissenters, and others were experimented on and finally targeted for extermination under the rationale that they were "inferior."

It was carefully explained to me that I was "taking one small facet of one small case and turning it into an analogy."

Somehow, I suspect that the death toll of 200,000 disabled people began with one small facet.

[Van Jenerette]

...reading.

[Sun]

Floridians, help Jesse Jackson change some minds.

Take action now:

THE FIRST TWO MIGHT BE MORE LIKELY TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS.

Senator Evelyn J. Lynn: (850) 487-5033 (Previously voted for Terri)
lynn.evelyn.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Burt L. Saunders: (850) 487-5124 (Previously voted for Terri)
saunders.burt.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Gary Siplin: (850) 487-5190
siplin.gary.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Tony Hill, Democratic Lead Whip
Phone: (850) 487-5024
hill.anthony.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Larcenia Bullard: (850) 487-5127
bullard.larcenia.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Les Miller: (850) 487-5059
miller.lesley.web@flsenate.gov

Senator J.D. Alexander: (850) 487-5044
alexander.jd.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Nancy Argenziano: (850) 487-5017
argenziano.nancy.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Mike Bennett: (850) 487-5078
bennett.mike.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Lisa Carlton: (850) 487-5081
carlton.lisa.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Paula Dockery: (850) 487-5040
dockery.paula.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Dennis Jones: (850) 487-5065
jones.dennis.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Jim King: (850) 487-5030
king.james.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Dave Aronberg: (850) 487-5356
aronberg.dave.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Walter Campbell: (850) 487-5094
campbell.walter.web@ flsenate.gov

Senator Steven Geller: (850) 487-5097
geller.steven.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Ron Klein: (850) 487-5091
klein.ron.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Gwen Margolis: (850) 487-5121
margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Nan Rich: (850) 487-5103
rich.nan.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Rod Smith: (850) 487-5020
smith.rod.web@flsenate.gov

Senator Frederica Wilson: (850) 487-5116
wilson.frederica.web@flsenate.gov

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"I don't want anyone trying to feed that girl.
The law of the case is that she is going to die."
Judge Greer re:Terri Schiavo. Pray4Terri.

[Wampus SC]

Ping.......

[Aliska]

I'd say it began from the fundamental strategy of dehumanization. Their fundamental philosophy aws based on dehumanizing whoever they wanted to be rid of.

Yes, and the term "vegetative" as in PVS which has been embedded in the public consciousness has done exactly that.