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Peoples Temple (1978)
Main article: Jonestown
Pictures of those who died in Jonestown

On November 18, 1978, 918 Americans, including 276 children, died in
Peoples Templeurelated incidents, including 909 members of the Temple, led
by Jim Jones, in Jonestown, Guyana.[21] A tape of the Temple's final
meeting in a Jonestown pavilion contains repeated discussions of the group committing "revolutionary suicide", including reference to people taking
the poison and the vats to be used.[22]

On that tape, Jones tells Temple members that the Soviet Union, with whom
the Temple had been negotiating a potential exodus for months, would not
take them after the Temple had murdered Member of Congress Leo Ryan, NBC reporter Don Harris and three others at a nearby airstrip.[22] When members apparently cried, Jones counseled "Stop this hysterics. This is not the way for people who are Socialists or Communists to die. No way for us to die.
We must die with some dignity."[22] At the end of the tape, Jones
concludes: "We didn't commit suicide, we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world."[22]

The people in Jonestown died of an apparent cyanide poisoning, except for Jones (who died of an injury consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot
wound) and his personal nurse.[23] The Temple had spoken of committing "revolutionary suicide" in prior instances, and members had previously
drunk what Jones told them was poison at least once before, but the "Flavor Aid" drink they ingested at that time contained no poison.[24]
Concurrently, four other members died in the Temple's headquarters in Georgetown. Four months later, Michael Prokes, one of the initial
survivors, also committed suicide.
Solar Temple (1994u1997)
Main article: Order of the Solar Temple

From 1994 to 1997, the Order of the Solar Temple's members began a series
of mass suicides, which led to roughly 74 deaths. Farewell letters were
left by members, stating that they believed their deaths would be an escape from the "hypocrisies and oppression of this world". Added to this they
felt they were "moving on to Sirius". Records seized by the Quebec police showed that some members had personally donated over $1 million to the
group's leader, Joseph Di Mambro.

There was also another attempted mass suicide of the remaining members,
which was thwarted in the late 1990s. All the suicide/murders and attempts occurred around the dates of the equinoxes and solstices, which likely held some relation to the beliefs of the group.[26][27][28][29][30]
Heaven's Gate (1997)
Main article: Heaven's Gate (religious group)

From March 24 to 27, 1997, 39 followers of Heaven's Gate died in a mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California, which borders San Diego to the
north. These people believed, according to the teachings of their group,
that through their suicides they were "exiting their human vessels" so that their souls could go on a journey aboard a spaceship they believed to be following comet HaleuBopp.[31] Some male members of the group underwent voluntary castration in preparation for the genderless life they believed awaited them after the suicide.[32]

In May 1997, two ex-members of Heaven's Gate, who had not been present for
the mass suicide, attempted suicide, one succeeding, the other becoming comatose for two days and then recovering.[33] In February 1998, the
survivor, Chuck Humphrey, died by suicide.[34]
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