On this day, 47 years ago, on November 18, 1978 (October 18, 1978 in the lunar calendar), more than 900 believers of the "People's Temple" in the United States committed suicide collectively. More than 900 People's Temple believers were found dead in their own commune in Jonestown, Guyana. They committed suicide by taking cyanide at the order of their leader, Pastor Jim Jones. On November 18, 1978, more than 900 believers of an American sect called the "People's Temple" suddenly committed suicide by taking poison in a camp located near Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. This tragedy shook American society, which was highly developed in science and material civilization. According to reports, the "People's Temple" was founded fifteen years ago by an American named Jones. He claimed that the "Temple""" opposes the demons of racism, hunger and injustice,"often promotes the imminent" end of the world "and the horrors of nuclear war, and advocates that suicide is a" holy death." In the name of running agriculture, he led his followers to live a life divorced from social reality in the wilderness and jungles. Disciples of this sect first came to Guyana in 1974 and occupied thousands of acres of land in northwest Guyana in 1975. In the summer of 1977, an American magazine exposed the sect's brutal abuse of believers and kidnappers. Later,"leader" Jones also came to Guyana. Under his beguiling, 1,200 people followed him to Guyana. The followers of this sect are those who are desperate for life and those who cannot get social help, drug users, the elderly and the lonely. They are dissatisfied with social reality, feel hopeless about their future, and are extremely afraid of nuclear war. Many people are influenced by nihilism and believe that life is impermanent and living is a pain. Therefore, after they joined the church, they often talked about suicide. The "leader" of the "Temple Cult" also organized "collective suicide drills" in Guyana. The canons of this sect are extremely barbaric. After believers join the sect, they are controlled by the sect leader in terms of economy, belief and body. Believers are often beaten, flogged and various mental tortures. If children violate canons, they will also be punished and may even be thrown into the water and drowned. Its founder is extremely arbitrary and his life is extremely corrupt. This sect has been criticized by the outside world and accused by relatives of believers; however, it has been praised by some people in the American ruling class. Representative Ryan went to Guyana to investigate the abuse of religious believers. As he set off for the United States, about 20 believers asked to follow him out of the camp. At this time, the leader of the "Temple" ordered the shooting death of Ryan and the reporters accompanying him, and then forced all the camp believers to commit suicide by taking poison. On November 29, the last bodies of mass suicides were transported back to the United States from Guyana. The legal community, diplomatic community, psychologists and family members are pondering this puzzling question. They wanted the answer: Why did more than 900 followers of a strange Californian commit mass suicide in the jungles of South America? The bodies of superstitious people in brilliantly dressed clothes lay scattered on the ground of the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. Only about 80 people survived, saying Temple members swallowed concoctions containing "Kur-Ed" cyanide during a suicide ceremony. Young children were spooned and fed the deadly substance, while older children were ordered to eat it themselves. The adults voluntarily swallowed it, and then fell down hugging each other. Their leader, James Warren Jones, alias the Rev. Jim Jones, was found dead on the altar of communion with a gunshot wound to the head. In the People's Temple sect, in addition to young people, there are many lower-middle class people who have followed Jones as early as in California. Many politicians at the time also supported Jones 'plan to solve social problems. Later, it was rumored that he forced believers to transfer property to him and prevented people from quitting the sect, and people became suspicious of him. Soon Jones led his followers to move to the tropical jungles of Guyana, working hard to cultivate the barren forest, and named their place of residence Jonestown. One follower said Jones wanted everyone to believe he was God. Others said he was paranoid, sexually insane and power-obsessed. Apparently, the visit of California Congressman Leo Ryan angered Jones. Ryan took a boat to Jonestown, Guyana, to investigate how members of the faithful participated in activities against their will, who were forced to give up their private property and forced to perform strange sexual rituals. Jones is said to have ordered his followers to ambush Ryan and his party, who carried out the ambush at Ketuma Airport, eight miles from Jonestown. The congressman's body was found on the dirt airstrip next to several American journalists, Lou Harris, cameraman Robert Brown, and cameramen Gregory Robinson and Patricia. Brown kept filming until a steady stream of bullets came and one of them hit him in the head. Witnesses said Jones ordered his entourage to commit suicide because he knew some of Ryan's entourage had escaped their ambush. Earlier Jones had said he would destroy his community if it were attacked. He once trained his followers to perform suicide rituals, and none of them objected. There is no doubt that these people have been "brainwashed" by him, so when he announced that "the time has come to meet in another world," these superstitious admirers who followed him joined him, and the U.S. government still thought they had been engaged in agricultural reclamation. The suicide scene was horrific. It was from this barrel that believers committed suicide by taking lemonade containing potassium cyanide.