Death
Mourning the death of his wife and the decline of his church, Klassen committed suicide late on August 6 or early on August 7, 1993 by consuming four bottles of sleeping pills.
Church members were notified on August 12, 1993, in a letter from McCarty stating:
In the early morning of Sunday, August the 8th our beloved founder and friend Mr. Ben Klassen passed away. I learned this from Klassen's daughter Monday morning. She told me that his last thoughts were about you. How important and significant each one of you are in the survival of our race and religion. The faith he has in each of you to continue with the courage you have always shown. To make a stand and not to back down. To take up the banner of the COTC and to carry it to victory.
Klassen was buried on his North Carolina property in an area designated "Ben Klassen Memorial Park".
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