Once upon a time, there was this nutball,
.
Thirty-nine took their own lives because of him.
They thought that they were going to heaven,
on the back of a comet.
Hale-bop to be precise.
They were a UFO cult.
I say were.
Because now they are all dead!
They didn’t live,
happy or otherwise.
The End!
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/heavensgate_mirror/index.html
Heaven’s Gate memorial. This is the way their web page looked on the day of their suicide.
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/heavensgate_mirror/book/book.htm
THE book.