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   Vaccinations have wasted Trump's mind and body.  They say he won't make 80.   
   Do his cult of followers have plans to follow him to the grave?   
      
      
   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 Temple–related 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 (1994–1997)   
   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 Hale–Bopp.[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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