videotapes, even recipes for death. The ghastly jumble of
bodies piled upon bodies discovered in Jonestown, Guyana, in 1978 may
have provided a stark lesson in how not to do it. That mass suicide was
a disorderly, ungracious way to meet your maker, a study not in serenity
but in chaos.
So last week, in that spacious Rancho Santa Fe mansion, with the
bougainvillea in full bloom outside, 39 bodies were laid out on their
backs on bunk beds and mattresses, looking like so many laboratory
specimens pinned…
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