Death
At the end of 1974, the Source Family sold their restaurant and moved to Hawaii. On August 25, 1975, despite having no previous hang-gliding experience, YaHoWha used a hang glider to leap off a 1300-foot cliff on the eastern shore of Oahu. He successfully flew his kite but crash-landed on the beach and died nine hours later. After three days of vigil, YaHoWha was cremated.
In 2006, Source Family members, Isis Aquarian and Electricity Aquarian, wrote the history of the religious group. A revised version of the book titled The Source: The Untold Story of Father Yod, Ya Ho Wa 13 and The Source Family was released in 2007, and included a CD with Ya Ho Wa 13 live performances, radio interviews, and Family recordings. Isis Aquarian was one of Yahowha's more than 12 'wives'. Isis recently found unreleased music from the Family days, it is now being remastered and released through Drag City Records, out of Chicago. Isis and Electricity have set up a Source Foundation, which includes some of the old Source Family members.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“It is not love you will find:
You have no limbs
Crying for stillness, you have no mind
Trembling with seraphim,
You have no death to come.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“For in the word death
There is nothing to grasp; nothing to catch or claim;
Nothing to adapt the skill of the heart to, skill
In surviving, for death it cannot survive,
Only resign the irrecoverable keys.
The wave falters and drowns. The coulter of joy
Breaks. The harrow of death
Depends. And there are thrown up waves.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours away and here we are talking about the brain size of birds and bloodhounds and hunting in the woods. You can only attend to death for so long before the life force sucks you right in again.”
—Helen Prejean (b. 1940)