Twenty-nine years ago today: The final hours of Lisa McPherson’s Scientology life

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TONY ORTEGA
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We want to warn you the story we’re reprinting today is very disturbing and contains graphic descriptions that some may find difficult to deal with. Nine years ago we marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Lisa McPherson by recording, in real time, the final weeks of her life. Today marks the 29th anniversary of her final day on earth, and we are reproducing the culminating piece of our series which we published nine years ago.

It’s a harrowing account of Lisa’s final hours, and not for the squeamish. If you are not familiar with her story, you might go back to the beginning of our series (links are provided below) about this lovely woman whose mental breakdown was treated by Scientology with a grim enforced seclusion at their holiest place, the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida. By this point, she was on her 17th day of isolation, with her caretakers not saying a word to her as dictated by the policies of L. Ron Hubbard.


What Laura Arrunada, Lisa McPherson’s final caretaker, saw in Room 174 of the Fort Harrison Hotel in the last three days of Lisa’s life was so upsetting, Marty Rathbun made her reports disappear.

Laura had trained to be a doctor in Mexico, and had completed her coursework and a two-year residency, but had stopped short of taking the board exam to become a physician. Ten years later, she was working in the Sea Org at Scientology’s Flag Land Base in its medical liaison office. She had first been asked to work a shift with Lisa McPherson on the day after Thanksgiving.

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Twenty-nine years ago today: The final hours of Lisa McPherson’s Scientology life

We want to warn you the story we’re reprinting today is very disturbing and contains graphic descriptions that some may find difficult to deal with.

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Here's how this ends:

It just wasn’t the case. The truth was bad enough. Scientologists, robotically following the dictates of a man who had been dead for almost a decade, L. Ron Hubbard, had dealt with Lisa’s madness by forcing herbal supplements and inappropriate liquids into her by holding her down and using a syringe, by confining her to a hotel room day after day, and expecting that she’d “calm down” and become ready for auditing. She did calm down. She became limp. She was dehydrated and had lost weight to the point that she was skeletal. She could no longer stand and had become incontinent. And they watched. They watched as she died in front of them.​

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That was bad enough. And because of the church’s millions, and because even the state of Florida was so intimidated by Scientology, the people responsible were never charged and never faced justice.​

That's Scientology. People programed into stimulus-response robots on Hubbard's "tech". Hubbard - if he didn't know it it wasn't worth knowing. This is how the asbestos debacle of the Freewinds took place - because Ron never wrote a single thing about asbestos. That means that if he didn't know about it it wasn't worth knowing.

People will sit and watch and allow the most heinous activity play out without doing a thing about it or lifting a finger other than to read a reference and then do what that states. If there's no reference they do nothing. No independent thought or volition - it's all "other determinism" from the whatever the ideologically possessed considers "source".

It reminds me of Claudine Gay and the other college leaders that sat and watched when action was necessary.

Cults