If it's one thing that human beings do, it is to frequently forget the lessons of history, and then make the same mistakes again.  After we have demonstrated our amnesia, or maybe it's carelessness, then we again face the consequences of our actions.

Consider again the path we are taking with regard to physician assisted suicide.  Read the recent article about the California decision.  http://tinyurl.com/jeoavk5

Is history repeating itself?  I would submit to you that, examining a parallel historical period, we are at risk of making grave mistakes.  In California, one can foresee the regulations and policies, that govern who is allowed to commit suicide, to be extended to include mentally ill humans who have been deemed terminally ill.

After the Nazis came to power in Germany in the 1930s, it started out "innocently".  The first concentration camp was started in Dachau for political prisoners.  It then evolved into a death camp for thousands of Jews.  But it didn't stop there.  Eventually Hitler decided that there were groups of people who just didn't fit into his warped viewpoint of an acceptable Germany.  These groups included artists, Gypsies, the physically and mentally handicapped and homosexuals.  We all know that many more concentration, death, camps were built to exterminate Jews and these other unacceptable elements of society.

Eventually, society, or the powers that be, will begin to place value on the lives of others.  We actually have already seen that trend with the holocaust of over 50 million babies aborted since 1973's Roe v. Wade.  They were deemed not worthy of living for a variety of reasons.

So where does it stop?  Who has the moral authority to decide who is eligible for assisted suicide? When will it extend to voluntary euthanasia and then to involuntary euthanasia?

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".  George Santayana