TRAGIC: Clearwater OT 8 Scientologist, 40, set fire to herself before shooting herself dead
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It's the first time I can’t find any material on internet.
I recall such topic had been discussed on the original ESMB.
However, I myself recall, +or- 1990 era, a few OT's were demanded to administer a sort of end of life process to a few late stage end of life cancer sufferers OT's,
( It's shamefully undignified
to say the following )
Who took too long to drop their body
I clearly recall the upset people because of the time and money the "degraded downstat being was draining“
There was 0 love, 0 compassion , 0 comforting, to the opposite, family members, especially spouse and kids, were pushed to stay away and get on course in order to remain up tone.
It really consisted to lead them with commands to leave their body and, if memory serves, to find a new one ( go around the maternity dept or hijack or stick to a pregnant woman you know) but tbe goal was ti make it happened ASAP!
I've seen such thing in my org, but can't speak how it went in other orgs.
It's the first time I can’t find any material on internet.
I recall such topic had been discussed on the original ESMB.
However, I myself recall, +or- 1990 era, a few OT's were demanded to administer a sort of end of life process to a few late stage end of life cancer sufferers OT's,
( It's shamefully undignified
to say the following )Who took too long to drop their body
I clearly recall the upset people because of the time and money the "degraded downstat being was draining“
There was 0 love, 0 compassion , 0 comforting, to the opposite, family members, especially spouse and kids, were pushed to stay away and get on course in order to remain up tone.
It really consisted to lead them with commands to leave their body and, if memory serves, to find a new one ( go around the maternity dept or hijack or stick to a pregnant woman you know) but tbe goal was ti make it happened ASAP!
I've seen such thing in my org, but can't speak how it went in other orgs.
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Karen#1
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The description of End of Life assists starts at 15:45 in above video
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onceuponatime
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I'm not doubting you, but it isn't a thing/reference I'm familiar with. Perhaps it was done away with at some point in time.
The stuff I'm talking about is usually done once the person is almost on deaths door, there's no way they are getting in session at that point.
Yeah, I remember that, but was there an actual reference/issue that was used? Pat said a lot of things in that event...
onceuponatime
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I agree, but from a PR standpoint they are always going to say they are against it. What they think privately could be something else. As you said, the main priority is not having the person in/near the org.
Enthetan
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That's Scientology.Who took too long to drop the body
I clearly recall the upset people because of the time and money the "degraded downstat being was draining“
There was 0 love, 0 compassion , 0 comforting, to the opposite, family members, especially spouse and kids, were pushed to stay away and get on course in order to remain up tone.
Anything which distracts from "getting the stats up", and ESPECIALLY anything which diverts cash away from going uplines, is to be ruthlessly suppressed.
Once you are no longer useful, you are to be "disposed of quietly and without sorrow".
Enthetan
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I'm going to guess the auditor treats the dying person as being the last BT to be removed from the body.
Enthetan
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This is very true. I had forgotten about this.
The moment you are diagnosed by a doctor as having a terminal illness, you become an illegal pc. This is another reason why many Scientologists don't go to doctors.
it would also be an incentive to commit suicide, so you could quickly pick up a new body after getting rid of your now-worthless body.
XenuHimself
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This one hits hard for some reason. Such a lovely lady in the prime of life. The threads of her life so easily found with a few google searches. She was a real person. As a never-in, perhaps I just can't understand. What would cause anyone, even suicidal, even sick, even depressed, to set themselves on fire? Someone needs to get to the bottom of this. Of course OT IIX is nonsense, but we already knew that. What the hell happened?
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This is a good video from Aaron based in part on what he has been told by someone in the CoS.
My gut feeling is that CoS is responsible for this women's death, that it was known she was suicidal and they didn't handle her properly.
As Aaron pointed out in the video her suicide was very shortly after some auditing she got at Flag. I wouldn't be surprised if that was a contributing factor to putting her in such a state. It wouldn't be the first time something like that happened.
SuperstarNeilC
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Maybe her “babysitters” shot her in the head and set fire to her afterwards.
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Or, they might have set fire to her first *then* shot her.
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Or, they might have set fire to her first *then* shot her.
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Enthetan
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Aaron makes an important point at the 11:00 mark of his video.
The mother had possession of Whitney's phone at the time the police had to forcibly enter the home. Why? When did mom come into possession of the phone, and how? Was it given to her, or did she take it from Whitney? Was the phone's contents inspected and "sanitized" by OSA? I think a digital forensics investigator should take a deep look at that phone.
The mother had possession of Whitney's phone at the time the police had to forcibly enter the home. Why? When did mom come into possession of the phone, and how? Was it given to her, or did she take it from Whitney? Was the phone's contents inspected and "sanitized" by OSA? I think a digital forensics investigator should take a deep look at that phone.
Lee #28
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Yes....many aspects should be investigated....
Yes....very weird as to why the mother had her phone. That opens up a lot of questions.
Did "babysitters" actually live with her? Where....?
I'd like to know about her finances..... What amount of debt did she have. Who did she owe money to? Did she use the Chase Wave?
As she had a business......did she apply for a Govt. Covid Grant.....and if so how much?
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Enthetan
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Charitable donations (with some exceptions) made within 2 years of declaring bankruptcy may be subject to "clawback" by the bankruptcy trustee.
I wonder how much she donated to Scientology in her last two years?
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mimsey borogrove
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Very devastating take down of Dr. David Minkoff, flag, clearwater pd, and Whitney's handlers ( baby watch), parallels to Lisa Mcpherson
Kimberly PruittIn 2001, the Florida Board of Medicine fined David I. Minkoff, M.D., $10,000 and suspended his license for one year, to be followed by two years of probation.
Kimberly PruittIn 2001, the Florida Board of Medicine fined David I. Minkoff, M.D., $10,000 and suspended his license for one year, to be followed by two years of probation.
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Lee #28
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Made the front page of the Daily Mail......
I was thinking....if she was wearing some sort of alcohol based hair product.....and then shot herself in the head area.....that might have caught her hair on fire.... Of course that is just speculation....no info really...
www.dailymail.co.uk
I was thinking....if she was wearing some sort of alcohol based hair product.....and then shot herself in the head area.....that might have caught her hair on fire.... Of course that is just speculation....no info really...
Scientologist real estate agent set fire then shot herself dead
Whitney Mills, 40, a Clearwater, Florida estate agent who was deeply involved with Scientology shot herself on May 12 and later died. Mills had reached the highest level in Scientology.
TONY ORTEGA
Excerpt:
[Whitney Mills]
After we reported on the death of Kirstie Alley, an OT 8 Scientologist who had died of cancer in Tampa, we heard from a reader who wanted us to know about another OT 8 Scientologist who had died in the same area this past May.
The reader told us this was not only a Scientologist, but that Scientology had been involved in some way with her death. We began looking into this matter, making some calls, and learned that the Clearwater Police Department had investigated this woman’s death. Yesterday, the department sent us its report of that investigation.
Whitney Mills was 40 when she shot herself on May 12 and then died days later at Morton Plant hospital. We want to warn you that the details are very disturbing, and they do bring up questions about her involvement in Scientology.
Mills was not only a deeply involved Scientologist, she was a real estate agent in Clearwater, and you can still find her agent pages online, as well as photos such as the one you see above.
In 2019, Mills reached the highest point on Scientology’s “Bridge to Total Freedom” when she completed “Operating Thetan Level Eight” or “OT 8” on Scientology’s cruise ship, the Freewinds.
[Whitney’s OT 8 completion, announced in a 2019 ‘Freewinds’ magazine]
As we discussed after Kirstie Alley’s death, when Scientologists achieve OT 8, they believe they will be granted “cause over matter, energy, space, and time.” In other words, the gamut of superhuman abilities that they have been pursuing for years and after parting with large amounts of money. Finally, they will have raised IQ, total recall, perfect eyesight, the ability to leave their bodies and travel as incorporeal spirits called “thetans” with full perception. And, of course, they believe they will be impervious to disease.
Cancer in particular is supposed to have been “handled” at OT 5, and not an issue after a Scientologist reaches OT 8. For that reason, Mike Rinder and Leah Remini explained after Alley’s death, high-ranking Scientologists will often turn to Scientology answers and delay seeing a doctor about serious matters so that something that might be caught early and treated, like Alley’s colon cancer, will be dealt with only after it has become very serious.
In 2022, Whitney Mills was facing some serious health issues of her own, according to the people who knew her and were interviewed by the Clearwater Police Department. One woman who had recently gotten to know Whitney told police that she had been diagnosed with Lyme disease as well as a mass on one of her ovaries, which “she was refusing to remove,” the friend said.
A family member said Whitney had been diagnosed with depression along with the Lyme disease. And there were at least three women who said they were caretakers for Whitney, helping her with shopping and cooking as she dealt with her health issues.
One of the caretakers told police that Whitney “was supposed to have surgery in a couple of weeks to determine what the mass was, but it was looking like she has cancer, but it was still unconfirmed.”
On the afternoon of May 12, one of the caretakers said that Whitney had gone to see a friend. Later that evening, her brother and mother asked Whitney if she wanted to go to a restaurant with them, but she said she wasn’t feeling well. She also turned down an offer to bring her food from the restaurant.
Later in the evening, Mills wasn’t answering her phone. A welfare check was requested from police, but a female officer had not been able to get inside the apartment. The brother then arrived, obtained some tools from a neighbor, and damaged the electronic lock on the door to get inside. He then found his sister with a gunshot wound to her head. She was still breathing.
Other officers who responded to the scene reported a burning smell and seeing burnt hair around the apartment. It became clear that Whitney had initially set herself on fire before shooting herself. After being taken to Morton Plant hospital, she died about a day and a half later.
Following up on the investigation, a Clearwater detective named Selena Hyppolite contacted family members trying to find Whitney’s phone. It turned out Whitney’s mother had it, and she agreed to meet the detective to give it to her. According to Det. Hyppolite, Whitney’s mother then told her something odd.
The mother said she had looked through the phone, and “Whitney advised she was going to ask the ‘D of P’ for an assist reference suicide,” the detective wrote in her report.
Det. Hyppolite then took the phone to have its data extracted, and reported that it showed…
The detective also referred to a conversation in the phone (in texts, apparently) with Whitney telling a caretaker, Albertina, that she wanted to commit suicide, and the caretaker…
Det. Hyppolite then contacted the Church of Scientology (she didn’t indicate which facility), which explained that “D of P” referred to “Director of Processing,” that an “assist” was a Scientology method of healing that was “not physical,” and when the detective asked if Scientology would assist with a suicide, was told “absolutely not.”
Sunny Pereira, an expert on Scientology’s “technology” and former Sea Org official at the Hollywood Celebrity Centre, tells us that a Director of Processing is a “mid-level position” in each Scientology org, senior to all auditors, running their schedules and the day to day production. “Their main statistic relies on the number of total hours the auditors spend in (counseling) session,” Sunny says.
“The D of P is the go-to person for anyone who is getting auditing sessions,” Sunny added. “In this case, it looks like they were asking what type of ‘assist’ they could do for someone with suicidal intentions.”
Sunny says that when she was working at the Flag Land Base in Clearwater, no Scientologist with suicidal thoughts would be allowed on the premises. She suggests that the references to calling the D of P would be Whitney asking for some kind of instruction about how to deal with her feelings at home.
Sunny suggests that one kind of “assist” that might be recommended by the D of P would have been known as a “locational.”
“It would be having someone walk around with her to point out items in the area and to draw attention away from her thoughts. ‘Look at that tree, look at that car,’ etcetera,” Sunny says.
Another “assist” the D of P might suggest would be something called the “PAB 6.”
“It was written around 1954. It’s the prequel to Introspection Rundown,” Sunny says, referring to the infamous handling for psychotics that L. Ron Hubbard developed in the 1970s that was used on Lisa McPherson, a parishioner who died after being subjected to the Introspection Rundown for 17 days at the Fort Harrison Hotel in 1995.
The PAB 6 is a less harrowing handling, Sunny says. “Basically anyone feeling overwhelmed, especially highly upset, is advised to do the steps covered there.
We call it PAB 6 for ‘Professional Auditors Bulletin,’ but the real title is ‘Case Opening.’ It gives steps such as getting proper food and sleep, daily walks, listing out all of your incomplete situations and then methodically completing them. It includes a vitamin regimen too.”
Sunny says it was clear that Det. Hyppolite, hearing the words “assist” and “suicide” in close proximity from Whitney’s mother, wondered if this was a reference to “assisted suicide,” which is a very different concept and not one that the church would engage in.
“To be clear, Scientology wouldn’t assist a suicide,” Sunny says.
Depressed about her Lyme disease diagnosis and the pain she was feeling from the mass on her ovary, Whitney was apparently looking to a Scientology official for help.
As an OT 8 Scientologist, the last thing Whitney could do was to turn to actual mental health professionals for help: Scientology demonizes the mental health field, and considers psychiatry to be the most evil force in the universe.
Without the option of proper mental health care, Whitney turned instead to heartbreaking suicidal plans, researching how to set herself on fire and shoot herself.
After she died, an autopsy was performed on May 14.
It found that the mass on her ovary was benign.
Whitney Mills did not have cancer.
We left a message for Whitney’s mother, hoping to ask her about the reference to the ‘D of P’ that she told Det. Hyppolite, and about what her daughter had been going through before her suicide. The next time we tried to call, we received a notification that our number had been blocked.
The Clearwater Police Department noted that it had also given a copy of the investigative report to the Tampa Bay Times, and we are looking forward to what that publication can do on this story to give us more answers about what Whitney Mills faced, and why she didn’t get the treatment that might have lessened her physical and mental pain.
Continuing our year in review: The stories of August 2022
While Scientology was trying to stop a major new labor trafficking lawsuit in Tampa, the plaintiffs doubled down with an amended complaint with many more horrific details about what it was like to be Sea Org workers on the cruise ship Freewinds.
A big exclusive for us: We learned that the reason Danny Masterson’s attorney Shawn Holley was asking for a delay in the case was that she was involved with secret proceedings involving an appeal by Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer in Washington DC. Jane Doe 1, one of Masterson’s accusers, made a rare public statement, asking the court not to allow a baseball player’s arbitration to take precedent over allegations of violent, serial rape. Judge Charlaine Olmedo denied the request for a delay.
In a podcast episode, Geoff Levin went over some of our Scientology celebrity predictions for who would defect and who would stay.
Also in August, we started a special limited podcast series about a TV show about Scientology that never aired, and we interviewed Phil Jones to kick it off, and Derek Bloch, Carol Nyburg, Katrina Reyes, and in September, Jamie DeWolf, who would have been the show’s presenter.
Bruce Hines told us about the time he got to visit the super-secret Scientology compound that, years later, would become the place where Shelly Miscavige would be stashed away.
Scientology claimed that Elisabeth Moss had turned down the request by Valerie Haney to be an arbitrator in her case. (Sure, sure.) She then nominated Tom Cruise and, if he was busy, Shelly Miscavige!
Andreas Heldal-Lund, founder of Operation Clambake and an old friend, learned that he has an aggressive cancer, and he was preparing for an end to his life with equanimity and integrity.
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I did not know that. I have personal certainty that eterioration can lead to body death. The body is programed to die if the spirit leaves. Most non Scientologists who exterorize do so when the physical body is asleep to avoid that stimulus/response mechanism and it is the only wat that they can create a separation from the body.
The spiritual Being becomes disoriented at body death because of past implants consisting of the electronic dissolution of memory and chaotic energies that overwhelm conscious awareness from between-life programed electronic personalities and destines that go into restimnulation. If these energies are not handled properly when exteriorized then true self is overwhelmed and disoriented by these unrecognizable unconscious energies they have sway over one's existence. Conscious awareness vibrates in unison with the physical body and non physical body and is the effect of both of nor operating at cause.
Scientology standard policy is to get mediacal treatment if one had a physical illness before they can have processing. People posting otherwise of healing with intention aloone are spreading disinformation. There is enough not to like about the Scientology organization without making things up.
SuperstarNeilC
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When you type “Whitney Mills Scientology” into google a strange disclaimer appears at top of page. - This doesn’t happen on any other search.
Karen#1
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I typed in Whitney Mills suicide and got this
www.dailymail.co.uk
Scientologist real estate agent set fire then shot herself dead
Whitney Mills, 40, a Clearwater, Florida estate agent who was deeply involved with Scientology shot herself on May 12 and later died. Mills had reached the highest level in Scientology.
Type4_PTS
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I did a Google search using those search terms and got the same result you did
I never saw that before...but don't use Google frequently these days. I use other search engines mostly.
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