:''"Don't be afraid to die. You'll see people land out here. They'll torture some of our children here. They'll torture our people. They'll torture our seniors. We cannot have this."''
:''"Don't be afraid to die. You'll see people land out here. They'll torture some of our children here. They'll torture our people. They'll torture our seniors. We cannot have this."''
:''"Are you going to separate yourself from whoever shot the Congressman? I don't know who shot him."'' [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/rose.html]
:''"Are you going to separate yourself from whoever shot the Congressman? I don't know who shot him."'' [http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/rose.html]
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Parents killed their children first, which sapped a will to live from the adults. What outsiders later clearly saw as an act of [[nihilism]], the cultists regarded as an act imbued with profound meaning. Jim Jones told them that they gave their lives for the glory of [[Communism]]. They did not surrender in laying down their lives. They protested.
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:''“This is not the way for people who are socialistic Communists to die, no way for us to die, We must die with some dignity,''
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Jones announced as children cried and his followers convulsed and collapsed.