High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, or VHEMT (pronounced "vehement"), is a movement which calls for the voluntary gradual self-extinction of the human species through abstaining from reproduction. VHEMT's motto is May we live long and die out. VHEMT is pronounced "vehement" and proponents of its philosophy are call themselves extinctionists.The primary motivation of VEHMT as a movement is the belief that the Biosphere of the planet Earth would be better off without humans.