Is the West Becoming a Death Cult?
In an era where the average European scrolls through countless disaster reports before breakfast and spends a large part of their day in a swamp of misery, it is fair to ask whether we have lost our zest for life.
From TV terror to ominous headlines, death is no longer seen as a solemn inevitability but as something exciting and seductive, writes Jacqui Deevoy .
And does anyone have the impression that this surreptitious repackaging has been deliberate, that the shadowy architects of policy, politics, and culture have orchestrated this dissonant symphony of nihilism, to seduce us into embracing mortality in a way we never have before?
British surveys show that the public is fascinated by the macabre and now prefers thrillers to romantic comedies. Why has this happened? And at what cost to our souls?
The small screen—accessible, addictive, dangerous—is the modern opium den. Platforms like Netflix tend toward the dark: for every uplifting film, there seem to be half a dozen “descents into the abyss.” Murder mysteries, horror films, and true crime dominate. “Monster,” a new series starring Charlie Hunnan, which dramatizes the murders and necrophilia of serial killer Ed Gein, can only be described as horror porn. You might turn a blind eye at first, but after a few episodes, it’s easy to watch. The genius of desensitization is that exposure and repetition numb us, so that aversion quickly turns to indifference.
Research from the British Psychological Society confirms this: regular gory media affects emotional responses and can make horror habitual. Studies show that regular viewers of bad things are less disturbed by real violence. It’s also addictive, and like the serial killers they watch so often, they often have to find increasingly gruesome programming to satisfy their needs. No wonder they shun the outdoors for their sofas, opting for fictional suspense over real-life connections.
This rotten situation is also seeping into the news cycle, contaminating the daily banquets of worry, suffering, and fear fed to us by the mainstream media. Algorithms hound us with gloomy news: wars, murders, famine, disasters… It’s not normal to absorb this kind of information every day—it’s a ritual that trains us to remain in the shadow of grief. A 2021 YouGov survey found that one in four Britons that year, after the chaos of 2020, were more preoccupied with mortality than ever before, and almost half began thinking about death and dying daily.
It seems many of us need adrenaline more than rest these days. Why watch a sitcom when a box set about a serial killer offers far more suspense? A NatCen study shows that exposure to chronic “doom-mongering” in the news increases “death anxiety” and fosters a fascination with all things morbid.
Halloween is an example of this shift. Once a series of Celtic vigils with jack-o’-lanterns, it has now become a horror parade. A 2023 survey by the British Heart Foundation found that 68% of trick-or-treaters wore horror costumes, compared to 12% in the 1990s. Psychologists from the University of Bath warned in another study that gore “gamifies” fear and reduces children’s responses to real crime and violence. The NSPCC has observed an increase in “murder games” in schools after Halloween. Death, once a somber topic, is now simply part of playground play.
Governments also play a role in this and currently appear to be doing their best to promote the death cult among vulnerable groups. The promotion of euthanasia has not gone unnoticed by the public. The Swiss organization EXIT has seen more than 3,000 cases of voluntary euthanasia since 2003, often in people who are not terminally ill. The Canadian organization MAID saw 13,000 cases in 2023 and is now expanding to include the mentally ill, children, and the poor. Aid in dying is now routine in 12 U.S. jurisdictions: California, Colorado, Delaware, DC, Hawaii, Montana, Maine, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington. Worldwide, it is now legal in Belgium, Colombia, Ecuador, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, all six Australian states, and Uruguay. Patients are casually applying and choosing suicide as a lifestyle.
But it’s a slippery slope, and data shows that these types of deaths are increasing. In the Netherlands, for example, the number of cases has risen from 1,882 in 2002 to more than 8,000 per year today.
In Britain, pressure is mounting. Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill passed the House of Commons for the third time in June 2025, reportedly supported by 79% of the public (British Social Attitudes Survey). In a YouGov poll, 75% think it’s a good idea. Are these results organic, or are they the result of blatant indoctrination through TV dramas and opinion pieces about “dying with dignity”? Are we ignoring the dangers—coercion of the elderly, pressure from the NHS, “Grandma had a good life”—because we’re told to? Are the decisions we make based on autonomy or mind control?
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The death penalty has also recently regained popularity. Abolished in the UK in 1965, a More in Common poll 60 years later shows that 55% support the death penalty for terrorism and serial murder (up 5% since 2023), with 60% support among millennials. A YouGov poll found 40% support overall, and 57% for terrorism crimes.
Abortion has also been back in the spotlight in recent years. In 2024, amendments to the UK’s abortion law were proposed to decriminalize abortions up to 24 weeks, in an attempt to protect women who arrange their own abortions (but these amendments were not adopted). In Canada and Europe, there are even more rumors, with some wanting to allow abortions up to birth—an act many consider simply infanticide by another name.
Reporting on sudden deaths has become increasingly opaque over the years. According to the ONS, excess mortality continues, with thousands of deaths exceeding the 2024 baseline, but headlines about unexplained deaths remain numerous, and experts remain “puzzled.” The UKHS reports no peaks in 2025, but sudden deaths remain normalized and rarely investigated.
Defibrillators are proliferating rapidly (over 5,900 in schools through Restart a Heart/Oliver King Foundation). Is this progress, or a constant reminder that we could drop dead at any moment? Advertisements reinforce this: Cancer Research UK’s 1 in 2 risk; children dying on sports fields; BHF murals of young cardiac deaths stare down from high walls. Health and safety fear porn is everywhere, instructing us to remain fearful of deadly viruses, infectious new deadly diseases, and impending pandemics. Stay alert for the next plague, people!
Before the 20th century, death was a domestic affair—a family affair, quiet and private. Today, death has been industrialized, outsourced, and aestheticized. It’s no longer a mystery or something to be respected—it’s a basic fact of life, something to be dealt with, like taking out the trash. Is this a good thing? Some—especially young people—would argue yes.
And what about depopulation? The “elite” has never made a secret of their belief that there are far too many people (but not theirs!) and that the population could be streamlined. They have many methods at their disposal, and many people already believe that the process—with the added benefit of eugenics—is well underway, using infertility (caused by toxins in food, water, air, vaccines, and other medications); the glorification of homosexual/transsexual lifestyles; the promotion of contraception, promiscuity, abortion—all of which are detrimental to the birth rate. The promotion of euthanasia—both gruesomely involuntary and voluntary—is also clearly taking place, with an eye toward ultimately living in a dystopia à la Logan’s Run, where we agree or choose to end our lives at a certain age, and if we refuse, we are given a helping hand.
If this sounds crazy to you, consider the patterns: the ONS 2024 fertility rate of 1.49 amidst the WEF’s “sustainable” rhetoric. It’s all there, in the statistics, the white papers, and the TED Talks.
Will this death cult hypnosis then worsen and make us all docile, so that we accept it and eventually line up like suicide sheep? Or will we emerge from it and reject the overwhelming gloom? The choice is ours: if we choose to look up from the news and scary movies, we have a chance to free ourselves from the burgeoning cult. But if we don’t take drastic action, the gloom will persist while we applaud, petrified, paralyzed, and trapped—possibly forever—in a world overshadowed by death, darkness, and destruction.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
https://www.frontnieuws.com/wordt-het-westen-een-doodscultus