The New York Post, April 1, 1997:

Rev. Chris Korda and his bizarre Church of Euthanasia are heartily applauding the mass suicide of the Heaven's Gate cultists. The "church"—which advocates cannibalism, abortion, and suicide to reduce population and restore the earth's ecology—will honor the 39 dead on April 13 on the Boston Common. At the service, the Heaven's Gate victims will be made honorary members of the self-styled church and Korda ... will release 39 earthworms into the grass to commemorate them. The male Heaven's Gaters will receive special honors for having undergone surgical castration to avoid procreation.

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