Cancer and stress in Scientology

[Karakorum]

Aaron made a vid "Why so many Scientologists die of cancer" (link here) and weirdly enough, that is something I noticed myself. I was in fact thinking about it today when I was cutting grass on my property... only late rI saw Aaron's vid.

• An HCO director I recall died of cancer at a relatively young age.
• Ann Tidman died of cancer.
• Karen black died of cancer
• Robert Vaughn Young died of cancer.
• Phil Bruemmer's wife died of cancer.
• My sister died of cancer.
• My girlfriend died of cancer in her 20s (though she was already out of scn for several years at that point).
• Her mom died of cancer.
• One of my supervisors had cancer (looked bad, told me he was very ill), was taken off his post. I have found no records of him both inside or outside, I have no reason to believe anything other than that he died.

Now I know, in the modern world cancer is one of the most common causes of death. A lot of people in scn smoke, that's also true.

So admittedly, it might all be confirmation bias.

Yet out of scientologists whose cause of death I know, three died of something else: My grandfather, L.McPherson and LRH. Almost everyone else I know died of cancer.

 

[programmer_guy]

For his comments on pain-killers:

In general, aspirin was allowed but was not allowed for something like 2 days before an auditing session.
There was a time limit before auditing.

(Maybe another ex who was a staff auditor or C/S will remember better than me.)