Columnist calls for ‘euthanasia vans’ as Britain has ‘far too many old people’

In something straight out of the prophetic Lord of the World, Sun columnist Katie Hopkins calls for ‘euthanasia vans’ as Britain has ‘far too many old people.’ Lord of the World is a 1907 apocalyptic novel set in Britain by Robert Hugh Benson. It is sometimes deemed one of the first modern dystopias. Recently Pope Francis has several times recommended reading this book in order to understand the present. Essentially the novel imagines a socialist and humanist world where religion has been either suppressed or ignored. In the absence of religious belief, the State fosters euthanasia such as described in the above documentary on National Socialist Germany. (The Catholic Church was a major opponent of euthanasia under the Nazis.) In the novel however, the Catholic Church has been suppressed by the rest of the world, which has turned to the Religion of Humanity modelled on that of Auguste Comte.

Many thanks to Travis Holte for advising me about the Katie Hopkin’s euthanasia column.

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