Bad Taste: euthanasia

The scan: sc-no260.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 4, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: euthanasia. Note: unnumbered; published under the North West youth march coverage.

page 4 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a doctor explains that doctors have been considering euthanasia for survivors of World War Three who are incurably ill, perhaps carried out by the military or the police; a young man asks whether it would not be more merciful to practise it on those prepared to use these weapons — "a bit extreme". — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 260, 11 September 1982, page 4. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac.

2. "We doctors have been considering Youth in Asia — sorry, I mean Euthanasia — as a way of dealing with survivors of WWIII who are incurably ill ..."

3. "Let's face it, there's going to be a lot of people dying of radiation sickness and there's not going to be a lot that anyone can do to either cure them or ease their pain so ...."

4. "Perhaps we can get the military or the police to take on the task of mass euthanasia. After all, they are not without experience in ...." "I find all this hard to believe!"

5. "Would it not be more realistic, more merciful, to practice euthanasia on those who are prepared to use these weapons?" "I say! That's a bit extreme, isn't it!"