Jonestown Mass Suicide: A Look at Jim Jones diagnosis and the People ’s Temples 918. This is the number of people that died in Jonestown‚ from apparent cyanide poisoning because of Jim Jones. This mass murder/suicide was one of the largest in modern history that resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life‚ without being caused by a natural disaster until the events of September 11‚2001. Jim Jones was the leader of the Peoples Temple‚ a religious organization also seen as
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Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple ethical or unethical practice? In the 1970’s Jim Jones established a church called the Peoples Temple which eventually became a cult. The foundation of the church was based on social and racial inequality for all. The church started small yet eventually grew to 5‚000 members. The Peoples Temple accumulated media and political attention which earned Jones popularity; this resulted to his nomination and selection to city commissioner. According to many Jones did
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psychologically normal citizens drank cyanide-adulterated punch and suicided in Guyana‚ South America. From those 913 members‚ 276 were innocent children. As informed in the Britannica Encyclopedia article “Jim Jones‚” these members belonged to a cult known as the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones‚ who was responsible for ordering the members to suicide. According to an article “Why Do People Join Cults?” by Adrian Furnham‚ Ph.D.‚ a cult is a group with “powerful and exclusive dedication and devotion
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Guyana. The town’s name was “Jones Town‚” and it was named by Jim Jones. The purpose of the town was to bring Jim Jones’ believers together and live happily ever after‚ but turns out to be a huge tragedy for those who were living in Jones Town. Around 909 people committed suicide by drinking poison under the command of Jim Jones. There were few survivors‚ but they have lost their family members (Nelson). Without any doubt‚ Jim Jones was the reason of this tragedy. Jim Jones was born in 1930‚ where is
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although it was sold as a Christian religious group‚ Jim Jones was leading a political‚ more specifically socialist-based‚ movement.”(Peschman). Jim Jones was a man who took advantage of those who were poverty- stricken and spiritually lost by creating this idea of a utopian society of “total equality a society where all people own all things in common where there is no rich or poor‚ where there are no races” where everyone was equal
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A case study that I’m doing is the mass suicide in Jonestown plotted by a cult leader Jim Jones. SInce Jim Jones was young he studied Joseph Stalin‚ Karl Marx‚ Adolf Hitler and many other leaders‚ trying to find out everything. He was different as a child compared to other children‚ he was obsessed with different religions and deaths. In 1952 Jones became a student pastor at Somerset Methodist Church‚ he had a reputation for a healer and an evangelist. Not a lot of people like him for trying to have
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children(Biography.com Editors). These deaths are considered the largest modern mass suicide‚ and also considered a mass murder. This deadly event happened because of a single man named Jim Jones and his religious philosophy. The history of Jonestown‚ where the suicides occurred‚ begins with the life of Jim Jones. Growing up‚ he was always fascinated with religion‚ and made a name for himself practicing as a minister before breaking off to begin the Wing of Deliverance Church. After he gained a
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of just one man‚ Jim Jones‚ seems hard to believe. Although it is technically a suicide‚ the people were by no means emotionally stable enough to all make this decision willfully. Jim Jones carefully planned this massacre‚ which is shown through his treatment of the members of his temple‚ his mental state‚ and the timing in which everything was carried out. In order to understand Jones’ motives‚ one must look back into his childhood. He was born in indiana to James and Lynetta Jones. His father was
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On December 13‚ 1973‚ Jones was arrested and charged with soliciting a man for sex in a movie theater bathroom known for homosexual activity‚ in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles.[98] The man was an undercover Los Angeles Police Department vice officer. Jones is on record as later telling his followers that he was "the only true heterosexual"‚ but at least one account exists of his sexual abuse of a male member of his congregation in front of the followers‚ ostensibly to prove the man’s own homosexual
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given scenario Mr. Jones is an 82 y/o patient who has been bought to the hospital by his daughter. He is suffering from respiratory distress and several medical conditions. While doctors evaluate Mr. Jones they found he was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and that he has gangrene on his right foot. Prompt intervention was needed since Mr. Jones is a diabetic patient. Doctors agree that Mr. Jones must undergo to a below the knee amputation procedure to save his live. Mr. Jones refused the surgery
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