In something that feels straight out of a nightmare, the world once had to deal with a cult that proposed every man, woman and child on Earth should kill themselves.<\/p>\n
The Church of Euthanasia, which still has a running website, was founded in 1992 by software developer and DJ Chris Korda.<\/p>\n
Korda said the idea for the church laid itself out to her in a dream, where she was confronted [by] an alien intelligence known as The Being who speaks for the inhabitants of Earth in other dimensions\".<\/p>\n
The Being warned that our planet's ecosystem is failing and that our leaders deny this,\" she explained. <\/p>\n
\"The Being asked why our leaders lie to us, and why so many of us believe these lies.<\/p>\n
The twisted cult of the 1990s would often march carrying grotesque props including a stick with a bloody baby doll and American flag attached, a pro-abortion symbol.<\/p>\n
They'd also swing around a huge abortion pill while chanting \"Save the planet. Kill yourself.\"<\/p>\n
The church believed that Earth was at a huge risk of overpopulating, and Korda was inspired by the news of irreversible climate change.<\/p>\n
As the cult began to gain traction, they organised increasingly high-profile and outlandish situations to get their twisted message out.<\/p>\n
Motorists driving on the Massachusetts Turnpike on September 1993 were met with a huge billboard for the Museum of Science in Boston covered with their classic slogan Save the Planet - Kill Yourself.<\/p>\n
Following on from this, members appeared on the notoriously wacky Jerry Springer Show and described the Churchs four pillars.<\/p>\n
Those four pillars are suicide, abortion, cannibalism and sodomy.<\/p>\n
Korda, who also had a career releasing techno music, was criticised by Springer for comments where she suggested a depressed teenager thinking about suicide should be offered assistance.<\/p>\n
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And the cult didnt just lead to on-screen entertainment. In a serious turn of events in 2003, a woman in Missouri was found dead lying next to a printout from the Church of Euthanasia site.<\/p>\n
The lead prosecutor for the city of St. Louis at the time, Jennifer Joyce, publicly threatened the church with manslaughter charges which led to the online instructions being removed.<\/p>\n
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