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An interesting analysis of Peoples Temple and Jonestown, this book really tries to understand the viewpoint of the members of this group. Probably one of the most interesting analyses, to me, in this book is the amount of difficulty officials went through to get the bodies buried. The various ways in which citizens of Guyana and the U.S. treated the corpses as something other than human, something strange and foreign. I had never thought about how funerals relate to humanity. I'd certainly heard of non-burial being disrespectful, but the fact that no country or state wanted to be the final resting place for the 900+ bodies from Jonestown due to their connection with a cult and what was considered a repulsive means of death, was in some ways disrespectful to the dead in itself. The denouncement of any dealings with the group from people who HAD indeed dealt with the group further heightened the level of dehumanization of the Jonestown dead. These particular portions of the book were absolutely fascinating to me.