Snuff It #1

The Lectern

Why do people kill themselves? Let's ask ourselves that. Why do people kill themselves? They kill themselves because they're unhappy! Because they're unhappy with their life, with the way they feel, with the emotions they have. Now, what we're saying here is that the main reason so many people are so unhappy is because our culture, our society is out of balance. You can see it in our art, in our magazines, in our music, in everything we create, there is tremendous suffering, and this suffering is the result of our being out of balance with the earth. The human species is no longer in balance with the forces that created it.

The only solution to this problem is to reduce the human population. There is no other solution, and nature will take action to ensure that it happens eventually anyway. So all that we're really saying, all the Church of Euthanasia is really saying, is let's save some time! Let's take the heartache out of this. Why make it hard when it can be easy? Why make it painful when it doesn't have to be? Who wants unnecessary suffering? Let's reduce the population now, the easy way. With rope, with potassium cyanide, with seconal and a plastic bag, with whatever the Hemlock Society says is the best way to do it, that's the way we want everybody to do it, the way that causes the least trouble.

And let's face it, we are at the center, the absolute epicenter of the consumer culture. We consume ten times more resources than any other nation on the planet. If it's going to start anywhere it has to start here! And the richer you are, the more money you have, the more assets you have, the more it matters that you kill yourself, right? I mean, it doesn't help us much if homeless people are killing themselves. We want to see rich people, people who matter, people who are intelligent and liberal, people who consume, these are the people we're after. We want these people to realize that...it's going to happen either way. Either way. It's like the end of the Roman empire, you see the end coming. Are you going to wait for the Germans to show up at the gates? Are you going to wait for them to rape you and stab you through the throat with a big sharp knife? Why not just go out the easy way? A little bit of hemlock, let go of your personal possessions, accept it, it's the decline of the West. The decline of the Empire. Let go. Surrender. Come to the Church of Euthanasia, and let yourself go, surrender to the inevitable. Americans must die! Americans must die to save the planet!

(From a sermon delivered by Rev. Korda on April 21, 1994)

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