CANBERRA (Rooters agency) \u2013 Evidently buoyed by the response to his recent remark that \u201cCoal is good for humanity,\u201d Australian Prime Minister Rupert Menzies yesterday [22 Oct 2014] told the annual convention of the Society of Mortuarians that \u201cDeath is good for humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDeath is the basic source of jobs in Australia\u2019s funeral industry,\u201d the Prime Minister declared. \u201cMy government is determined to protect those jobs against the fantasist-terrorist doctors who are trying to prevent it.\u201d<\/p>\n
In response to questions by Rooters, the Prime Minister later said that death \u201cshould not be demonized. If it weren\u2019t for death, our country and the world would be much too crowded. Just imagine: you\u2019re waiting for one of those buses or trains that are never there when you want them, and when the bus or train finally arrives, you can\u2019t get on, because it\u2019s full not only of boat people but also people who should have been dead 20 or 30 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a parliamentarian, I personally never have to deal with buses or trains, but I\u2019m trying to look after you little people.\u201d<\/p>\n
PM Menzies added that \u201call of the world\u2019s religions acknowledge the importance of death. Muslim Australians, many of whom come from that part of the world, can tell you that the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve and all that stuff was about death being brought into the world. So that means that God\u2019s in favor of it, and all the religions too.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PM acknowledged that death \u201chas gotten a bad rap in the left-wing media. But that\u2019s only because those journalists who call themselves \u201bprogressive\u2019 don\u2019t keep up with science and technology.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same leftists, he said, disparaged the very idea of technology that could clean up the burning of coal. \u201cBut my government has confidence in the unlimited ability of science to get us out of bad situations we have created.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have already indicated our confidence in clean coal. I am equally confident that we can just as quickly develop living death. In fact, we expect to have a situation of living death well before clean coal. Many people say we have already succeeded.\u201d<\/p>\n