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When a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal’s deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult.
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CultsFictionReligious aspectsReligious aspects of SuicideSuicideMessianism
About the author
Gore Vidal
03 October 1925 – 31 July 2012
Gore Vidal (full name: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal Jr.) was a renowned American author.
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