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The wish is brutal and serene: leave every person on earth alone, day by day, to meet death according to individual desire rather than imposed care.

The politeness of "Wouldn't it be nice" makes the thought more severe, not less. What sounds compassionate at first becomes a demand against interference itself, as if freedom includes the right to die without rescue, management, or moral correction.

'Crying Out' wraps a severe demand in soft politeness: 'Wouldn't it be nice / If everyone / on the planit / Day to day / Was left alone / To die / as they please.' What sounds compassionate becomes a refusal of all interference -- not the freedom to live as one pleases but to die that way. The thin, descending lines make the wish land as a quiet ultimatum rather than a comfort.