Ascension suicide sect Investigated in Canada
Last year in Canada an Ascensionist religious leader was investigated by authorities for suggesting suicide to his members as the means to leave earth, or to lead his 'divine children towards Ascension'.
Some of the cult members had made wills and funeral preperations.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/07/04/quebec-man-investigated-suicide-end-world-cult.html?ref=rss
Other 'transitionary' sects that have ended in mass suicide are the
Heavens Gate UFO cult
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/heavgate.htm
and the Solar Temple neo templar occult group.
http://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/phenomene/English/HTML/doc0008.htm
Last year in Canada an Ascensionist religious leader was investigated by authorities for suggesting suicide to his members as the means to leave earth, or to lead his 'divine children towards Ascension'.
Some of the cult members had made wills and funeral preperations.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/07/04/quebec-man-investigated-suicide-end-world-cult.html?ref=rss
Other 'transitionary' sects that have ended in mass suicide are the
Heavens Gate UFO cult
http://www.stelling.nl/simpos/heavgate.htm
and the Solar Temple neo templar occult group.
http://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/phenomene/English/HTML/doc0008.htm