I always felt the fact that 900 and more people who drank cynics laced kool-aid and then fell forward, everyone of them, seemed against the odds that would happen that way. I’ve always thought that some of them were turned face down by the first people there to investigate, knowing the photos would be taken and that it would be too horrible to see their faces and also the privacy issue.
Whenever I mention this to anyone I always get a negative reaction but does that not seem a reasonable assumption?
I don't know. There's a few photos of bodies lying face up but not many.
It would've seemed a huge task for the few security people who killed themselves last to reposition the bodies, particularly with all the chaos going on.
From what I've read, it took the adults about 20-30 minutes to die. Their children died quicker, so many parents watched their own kids die first. Many people were forcibly injected with the drug cocktail, of which cyanide was just one part. There's also speculation that the lunch they ate earlier was laced with sedatives.
There were "dry runs" previously where people drank what they thought was poison and waited to die, only to be told later that it wasn't poison, just practice. Some people thought this was another dry run, until people around them started dropping dead.
Really, a crazy story and I'd like to learn more about now that I'm older. I was nine years old when it happened and still remember it pretty well, particularly the photos taken from the air of all the bodies lying everywhere.