http://slate.com/id/2122835/


"On or around Jan. 17, 1986, Hubbard suffered a catastrophic stroke on 
a secluded ranch near Big Sur, Calif. A week later he was dead. 
Scientology attorneys arrived to recover his body, which they sought to 
have cremated immediately. They were blocked by a county coroner, who, 
according to Scientology critics, did an autopsy that revealed high 
levels of a psychiatric drug. That would seem like an embarrassment 
given the church's hostility to such medications (witness Tom Cruise's 
recent feud with Brooke Shields), but it didn't stop the church from 
summoning thousands of followers to the Hollywood Palladium days after 
Hubbard's death. There they were told that Hubbard "willingly discarded 
the body after it was no longer useful to him," and that this 
signified "his ultimate success: the conquest of life that he embarked 
upon half a century ago." Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that 
Hubbard's ultimate success lay in convincing millions of people he was 
something other than a nut." 






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