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1997 Saint-Casimir mass suicide

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• ... that on the same day that the members of Heaven's Gate died in a mass suicide, five members of an unrelated cult did the same thing?

• Source: Coleman, Loren L. (2004). "Cultic Copycats". The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-0554-9, p. 84. "On March 22, 1997, just as the Heaven’s Gate thirty-nine were dying by suicide, a documentary film about the Order of the Solar Temple cult aired on French television, and, in what was probably not a coincidence, five members of the Order of the Solar Temple killed themselves that day in a “Christic Fire.”

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Improved to Good Article status by PARAKANYAA (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:05, 2 October 2024 (UTC).

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Overall: IntentionallyDense (talk) 01:45, 2 October 2024 (UTC)