The scale of Jonestown is wild. I just watched the HBO docu series on Heaven’s Gate which it said was the largest mass suicide on US soil at ~40 people. Jonesto

The scale of Jonestown is wild. I just watched the HBO docu series on Heaven’s Gate which it said was the largest mass suicide on US soil at ~40 people. Jonestown was over 20 times that. And obviously more of a murder-suicide. I realize some people would characterize Heaven’s Gate that way as well and you could argue it’s always that way given the coercive nature of cults but it really seemed like in that case they were quite open and deliberate about their plans and people had the opportunity to leave before they put them into action (and several people did). Versus being forced to drink poison at gunpoint in Jonestown.