Organisational Management are part of the larger agenda. Part of the manage or cull agenda. Part of the organise or euthanise plan.
It’s only right that they let a few of us go. It’s only right. Common sense demands that some of us … lay our lives down. A bit like voluntary redundancy. But of life!
The right thing. The unselfish thing. And it’s not like we were doing anything particularly significant with our lives, is it? It’s not as if we were putting them to good use.
Really, we were just disturbing everyone around us – everyone normal, everyone sensible. We were really only spoiling the peace, ruining the harmony …
And we’ll be doing it for the good of all. For everyone! Unselfishly!
A gentle kind of heroism. Laying down your life for the sake of everyone. Of the planet, probably. Done because we are too many! Out of sheer kindness.
Our kind have had their chance. We’ve had a good enough run of it. Our day in the sun! Time to give the earth back to itself. To release it. To let go. We have to leave it to others.
And isn’t it a pleasure to serve? To be useful. Isn’t it a release to actually do something for the good of all – for everyone?
The ultimate act of charity. The best we can do. The most selfless thing.
Laying down our lives. Going to our eternal rest. Because there can only be so many of us. There are only resources for so many.
There’s something glorious in being allowed to disappear. There’s a sweetness to it. A gentleness.
And the methods of death are so gentle now. The death-technicians will go so gently to work. We can choose our favourite song to die to. We can select something from the dial of our euthanasia-pod. Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me can accompany us we gradually lose consciousness. As we close our eyes.
A kind euthanasia. A gentle cull. They’ll all but be stroking our hair as they put us down.
To fall asleep into death. To be released into it, death. What was ever so beautiful as that? The dream is over. The bubble pops. The leaf falls.
Work in Progress 