I take your point, Ed, and I share your grief and anger.

Sixty some-odd people were killed when Mount St. Helens erupted. Many were killed when the freeway collapsed during the San Francisco earthquake. Volcanos, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, the catalog goes on and on, without even mentioning diseases and epidemics.

But it seems to me that, somehow, there is a qualitative difference between dying in a natural disaster or of an illness and being killed by your own species. Sure, you're still dead, but....

Don Firth