Like the other poster said, we're not even close to the top of the list. Let's leave aside the Aztecs who sacrificed as many as 10,000 prisoners a year in ritualized public ceremonies, and consider at our immediate predecessors, the Victorians. It's been often noted that as much as our society glorifies sex, the Victorians glorified death. Look at their dark poetry, their elaborate mourning customs, and their almost comically dramatic graveyard monuments as just a few examples of what I mean.
Read my other posts and some of the posts of others.
What were the Aztecs doing? Were they trying to convince their people that they needed to die in order to better society? No, but to appease their gods. To me, that is a warped pursuit of the religious impulse that I believe is blue-printed in all of humanity. Yes, it was a horrible mutilation of that yearning, but they didn’t sacrifice with the goal being the elimination of those the state deems a liability to their socialist economic and central-planning ideology, and that is what is at the core of this “assisted homicide” movement started by Dr. Death.
Maybe 10% of the population view the issue as a “right to die” issue. That would be about equivalent to those who believed all the stated goals of the various other Marxist-backed movements from the sixties, such as affirmative action, homosexual equality, feminism, eco-statism, and dissolution of the family.
The regard for human life is one of the tantamount issues that the Marxists have had with Western, Judeo-Christian culture since the mid-19th century. If they can destroy that core, everything else falls into place for them.
As I stated earlier, we are barbaric not in the number of brutal deaths, but in how those who perpetuate the culture of death try to glorify it for the State, just as the Islamofascists pull the pin believing that the 72 virgins they are about to meet are real and better than life itself.
The delusion of the value of human life vs. the value of dying when it is good for the state and when it is for your own good is the crux of this public exhibition.