Mass suicide

It’s me, Charlotte. I think the weirdest thing I have ever heard about happened today. I believe that it is called the “Heaven’s Gate” Mass Suicides but whatever it is, it is super creepy. Apparently, police found thirty-nine men dead at a rental home in Rancho Santa Fe. The person who rented it out thought it was for a religious group, but nobody could find evidence to prove it. The estate looks really expensive too - from ten to twenty thousand a month (“39”)! The news said that all of the men

shock the world, and forever change the view of religion. Meant to be a paradise for the poor, the abused, the needy, and those wanting to change the world, Jonestown, founded by Jim Jones, leader of The Peoples Temple, was the location of a mass murder-suicide taking the lives of more than 900 people including countless children. “And, the way the children are, laying dead now, I'd rather see them lay like that than to see them have to die like the Jews did, which was pitiful anyhow. And I'd just

THE JONESTOWN CULT Mass suicides are infrequent yet notable events that have occurred throughout the course of human history. The forty-nine Japanese Ronan, or Russian villagers burning themselves during the Russian Church’s Great Schism, are terrible reminders of the lengths humans will go to in order to remain faithful to a deeply held ideology (Coleman 46). Notably, in both of these examples and in the case of the Jonestown massacre, the suicides occurred within the context of a culture, sub-culture

his followers to commit a revolutionary suicide (Twemlow 224). The People’s Temple’s actions concerned many family members and outsiders, which sparked Congressman Leo Ryan’s involvement. Congressman Leo Ryan and some reporters were on a mission to rescue Americans from Jonestown. On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones was paranoid that his reign over Jonestown would come crashing down when some of his followers went with Congressman Ryan. Jones used a mass suicide to remain in control. Many people of Jonestown

Jim Jones was the founder of the Peoples Temple; a cult best recognized for the mass murder/suicide of over 900 people. Before the events that made him a part of history, he was seen as a man with great charisma and visionary ideas; now he is viewed as a manipulator, abuser, and murderer. This paper will explore the life of Jim Jones and with the use of psychological models, try identifying abnormal behavior patterns. Jones grew up in Indiana with his mother and disabled, alcoholic father in a

On the evening of Friday, 13 November 2015, a massacre including of public mass shootings and suicide bombings occurred in the capital of France, Paris. The attackers killed 130 people and wounded 368 serious injuries. Just 10 months previous, on January 7, 2015 two terrorists attacked Charlie Hebdo, an office of a Parisian satirical magazine. They killed eleven and wounded eleven people. During the attacks in Paris, no one victim was armed. They didn’t have any chance to defense for themselves.

Sirens would go off in the middle of the night and a mass meeting would take place. The followers would be given a glass of red liquid to drink. They were told that the liquid contained poison and that they would be dead in forty-five minutes. The followers never knew if it was just another drill or if it was the real thing. Finally in 1978 when outsiders began to raise question and concern, Jones decided to put his suicide plan into action. He assured his followers that

The worst mass murder suicide in history was the Jonestown Massacre. The Jonestown Massacre happened on November 18th 1978.More then 900 people were killed in the Massacre, 232 of which were children. The Massacre happened on a piece of land in Guyana that the People’s Temple, run by James Jones, had bought. The People’s Temple was a church run by James Jones who preached about diversity and racism. James was not a real preacher, all of his speeches were based on his opinions and theories of the

be a utopia, over time changed into an environment delegates have never signed up to be a part of, being part of one of the world’s most unfortunate massacre incidents. Many followers of the Jonestown incident believe that this was an act of mass suicide rather than a premeditated murder. In this essay, both arguments will be analyzed and compared, lastly concluding why the massacre was a murder with the evidence of how Jim Jones’ plotted and received shipments of cyanide, supported by chilling

the highest gun violence rates in the world. America also has high rates suicide by a gun and mass shootings. Everyone should agree, something needs to change. Though a large percentage of gun violence in America is homicide the majority of gun related deaths is suicide. This is another topic all on its own but it still needs to be brought up when discussing gun related deaths. This problem isn't new even in 1980 the suicide rate was higher than the homicide rate. Unfortunately many of the law put