Undeniably this is a tragedy but as rational people we have to question the kind of logic that leads a person to reach this conclusion, and then not only execute it but carry their children along as well.
It is the kind of mentality only religion can breed, such as blowing yourself up in the name of going to heaven. Perhaps this is even stupider, running away from an apocalypse that from where I’m sitting has not even shown any signs of coming anytime soon.
Mirror UK reports that ‘a family of three and their children were found dead at home after taking a cocktail of drugs’
Police believe the couple, Utah residents Benjamin and Kristi Strack, who were deeply religious, took the cocktail along with their children in order to ‘escape the evil in this world’