[Excerpts from the Jim Jones suicide tape]

Jim Jones: "Living--you're looking at death and it 
looks--living is much, much more difficult. Raising up 
every morning and not knowing what's going to be the 
night's bringing. It's much more difficult. It's much 
more difficult."

Jim Jones: "It's never been done before, you say. It's 
been done by every tribe in history. Every tribe facing 
annihilation. All the Indians of the Amazon are doing 
it right now. They refuse to bring any babies into the 
world. They kill every child that comes into the world. 
Because they don't want to live in this kind of a 
world."

Christine Miller: "Well, I don't see it like that. I 
mean, I feel like that--as long as there's life, 
there's hope. That's my faith."

hope runs out because everybody dies. I haven't seen 
anybody yet didn't die. And I'd like to choose my own 
kind of death for a change. I'm tired of being 
tormented to hell, that's what I'm tired of. Tired of 
it."

Jim Jones: "Please. For God's sake, let's get on with 
it. We've lived--we've lived as no other people lived 
and loved. We've had as much of this world as you're 
gonna get. Let's just be done with it. Let's be done 
with the agony of it."

Jim Jones: "I made my manifestation, and the world was 
ready, not ready for me. Paul said, "I was a man born 
out of due season." I've been born out of due season, 
just like all we are, and the best testimony we can 
make is to leave this goddamn world."