Dying for some logic

If nothing else legailes assisted suicide would reduce the numbers who every year throw themselves in front of trains, trucks and buses - there's no reason why the drivers of these should be traumatised as the randomly chosen instruments of suicide. It should be a much more civilised and dignified affair, which is all that the movers of this measure are aiming at, but the opposition, always shrill and loud and composed of a mixture of the terminally ill, the disabled and the terminally stupid religionistas who always think they have the right to dictate their absurd ideas of humans being special to the rest of us, who know we're just another species and one, moreover, due for extinction any decade now. I'm all in favour of suicide religions, which seem to me to be an eminently self-selecting method for gene removal from the pool of unviables.

With planet Earth groaning under the combined weight and consumption of homo sapiens, suicide could be seen as a selfless act on behalf of all other species and the ecosystem. Our very fecundity [and liking for sex without responsibility] is our undoing, along with conquering diseases which once kept our numbers under control. Now the only limit on population growth is war, which is a popular pastime for increasing numbers of overcrowded humanity.