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To: SoCar
Would you rather be an elderly Jew in a Florida nursing home in 2005, or a healthy Jewish child in Poland in 1940? Take your pick.

The key was in your first sentence, having a surviving loving family who could oversee your care.

It's not an easy choice, and I don't mean to be crass. Florida does not sound like a healthy place to be elderly or disabled in, but that is by no means the only place. Something could happen so your loving kin would not be there for you as you plan or hope. There are many elderly who have no living kin or irresponsible kin all over the country.

Many are dying alone and unloved by anyone. Some have children who have forgotten them or have taken no repsonsibility for them, and social services has to find housing for them, etc.

Poland was probably worse. In either place, you couldn't be sure who wouldn't turn you in though. It has NOT come to that by any means.

89 posted on 04/02/2005 10:36:46 PM PST by Aliska (Theresa Marie Schindler, December 3, 1963 - March 31, 2005, Never Forget)
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To: Aliska
I will also never forget Terri Schindler and her death by dehydration as ordered by the court of George Greer on the word of her "husband."

An atrocity yes. Evil yes. Nazi Germany no. Let's stick to what happened here and make sure it does not happen again.

93 posted on 04/02/2005 10:47:05 PM PST by SoCar (Refugee from NJ)
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