Editing Church of Euthanasia (section)

== History ==
The church gained early attention in 1995 because of its affiliation with paranoia.com, which hosted many controversial sites during the late 1990s and early 2000s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Church of Euthanasia |url=https://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/ |access-date=2025-04-27 |website=www.churchofeuthanasia.org}}</ref> Members later appeared on an episode of ''[[The Jerry Springer Show]]'' titled "I Want to Join a Suicide Cult".<ref>[http://www.oocities.org/entertalkmentsite/jerryspringer.html EnterTalkMent Archives, broadcast Aug 11, 1997.]</ref><ref>{{Vimeo|235654079|I Want To Join A Suicide Cult! 1997}}</ref>

Following the [[September 11 attacks]], the church posted on its website a four-minute music video titled ''I Like to Watch'', combining hardcore [[pornography]] with footage of the attacks and the [[collapse of the World Trade Center]]. Over the video played an electronic soundtrack recorded by Korda with the lyrics, "People dive into the street / While I play with my meat" and "My steel melted and my [[Twin Towers|tower]]'s coming down." It also showed a man [[orgasm]]ing and then cleaning himself with an American flag. Korda described the project as reflecting her "contempt for and frustration with the profound ugliness of the modern industrial world."<ref>Wright, Chris. (2001) [[The Phoenix (newspaper)|The Boston Phoenix]], The [http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/02063812.htm Pornography of Terror.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060402234916/http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/02063812.htm |date=2006-04-02 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.spaink.net/2002/11/12/kip-aan-het-kruis/|title = Kip aan het kruis |trans-title=Chicken on the Cross |language=nl |date = November 12, 2002|accessdate = September 21, 2015|website = spaink.net|last = Spaink|first = Karin |author-link=Karin Spaink}}</ref><ref name="Davis"/>

The church's instructions on "how to kill yourself" by [[asphyxia]]tion with [[helium]] were removed from its website in 2003 after a 52-year-old woman used them and died by suicide in [[St. Louis County, Missouri]], resulting in legal threats against the organization.<ref>Frankel, Todd C. (2003) [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]], [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=Now%20even%20committing%20suicide%20has%20gone%20online&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date:B,E&p_text_date-0=2000%20-%202008|2011%20-%202014|1988%20-%202000|2000&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=%28%22Now%20even%20committing%20suicide%20has%20gone%20online%22%29&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no Now even committing suicide has gone online].</ref>