Mass suicide - Wikipedia
Mass suicide is a form of suicide, occurring when a group of people simultaneously kill themselves. Mass suicide sometimes occurs in religious settings. In war, defeated groups may resort to mass suicide rather than being captured.
Mass suicide at Jonestown | November 18, 1978 - HISTORY
2010年2月9日 · On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation...
10 Largest Mass Suicides In History - WorldAtlas
Many of these mass suicides happen for different reasons, and as such, they provide valuable insights into the collective and individual psyche of human beings. Heaven's Gate mass suicide happened in March 1997, in Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego. …
Jonestown - Wikipedia
Many contemporary media accounts after the events called the deaths a mass suicide. [4][5] In contrast, later sources refer to the deaths with terms such as mass murder-suicide, [6] a massacre, [7][8] or simply mass murder. [9][10] Seventy or more individuals at Jonestown were injected with poison, and a third of the victims were minors. [11][12...
Jonestown | History, Facts, Jim Jones, & Survivors | Britannica
2024年11月11日 · Jonestown, (November 18, 1978), location of the mass murder-suicide of members of the California-based Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their charismatic but paranoid leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown agricultural commune, Guyana. The death toll exceeded 900, including some 300 who were age 17 and …
Inside The Jonestown Massacre, The Largest Mass Suicide In …
2024年8月1日 · On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones instructed over 900 members of the Peoples Temple to take their own lives by drinking poison — and forcing anyone who resisted at gunpoint.
Jonestown — FBI
The FBI investigates a murder of a Congressman and a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana in the late 1970s.
Jonestown ‑ Massacre, Guyana & Cult - HISTORY
2010年10月18日 · The “Jonestown Massacre” occurred on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction of their...
Inside Jonestown: How Jim Jones Trapped Followers and Forced ‘Suicides’
2018年11月13日 · Just two years later, on Nov. 18, 1978, those words became reality when more than 900 people, one-third of them children, died during what would be known as the Jonestown Massacre, one of the worst...
Mass Suicide & the Jonestown Tragedy:
2013年7月25日 · Mass suicides are typical of defeated and colonized populations forced to escape from a reality that does not acknowledge their human dignity. Self-induced mass suicides are motivated by a distorted evaluation of reality without an …