John Travolta's son dies in Bahamas

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I found this on an interweb search-

Poor Jett, but it serves John right for believeing in the Scientology nonsense.

Yes, we just don't know and probably won't ever know. I do have a friend who has seizures DESPITE her medication and attention to her environment. So, blaming a boy's death on presumed lack of medical intervention is just mean and petty.
Yeah, I find the death suspicious but not enough to actually say that it "serves John right". yikes.

You can pretty much guarantee that he had a problem that gave him seizures, and it was not being medicated. Even if a Scientologist wants to take medication or give medication to their children, they will be threatened with shunning from the organization (that is, if they can't handle him through auditing and such), and many times, even blackmailed. So, they will either deny medicating him based on their beliefs, or face the consequences.

A Scientologist's greatest fear is being declared a "suppressive person". Even though their original definition of such may differ from the organization's, they will feel bad about themselves if declared and SP, and feel like they deserve it. If John were to give helpful drugs to his child, he may be declared a "suppressive person", in which his wife will be forced to disconnect from him and take the child with her.

Am I still lacking "facts", or what?

people can just die from seizures, sudden unexplained death is what they call it, and the falls can be nasty from even normal seizures , You can be on meds and still have them I still have breakthrough seizures, despite my meds, and currently have a big lump on the side of my head from the last fall. I am personally against the concept of Scientology but it is still sad for the parents to lose a son.

My uncle dropped dead at 47 or so. His heart just stopped. No history. It happens.

A brother of my friend was a football player. He died too (around age 17?) or was it 22? but he had an unknown heart problem despite his great health and active life. It happens.

Okay, so TMZ has reported that Jett was on a drug that "lost effectiveness over time", according to his parents. So, when the seizures continued, they stopped giving him the drug. But instead of researching into other possible treatments, they just let it be, assuming that the tech would not fail them. But hey, he died. Now what are they going to say, that the psychs killed him for profit?

I guess they must not have given him a proper "silent birth", and passed on too many thetans, which according to Scientology, they would have "pulled this in".

F*** Scientology.

Then again, they kind of DID pull this in by giving up on his treatment.

Here's an old article from 2006 about Jett's autism and how it was ignored: http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/arc ... eart.phtml

And another one from a year later: http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com/arc ... ment.phtml (This is the one with the interview with John's neighbor, who also has an autistic son)

Ummm, excuse me, anyone else see something worrying here? QUOTE

John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, died in the Bahamas after apparently suffering a seizure and hitting his head at his family’s vacation home, authorities said Friday. A house caretaker found Jett, 16, unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning . He was taken by ambulance to a Freeport hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Police Superintendent Basil Rahming said in a statement.

The teenager had last been seen entering the bathroom on Thursday and had a history of seizures, according to the statement. An autopsy is planned. [...]

AND NO ONE THOUGHT TO ASK IF HE WAS OK??? 18 - 24HRS IN A BATHROOM???

http://glosslip.com/2009/01/02/jett-tra ... n-bahamas/

I trust CNN over a site called "Gosslip". CNN says he had the seizure at 10am in the morning, not the previous night.

FOX are reporting possible discrepancies still
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475724,00.html

Conflicting reports have emerged over the timeline of events leading up to the death of actor John Travolta’s 16-year-old son Jett.

Police forces in the Bahamas say that Jett was left unattended for more than 10 hours — a claim which the Travolta camp is vehemently denying — according to TMZ.com.

Jett, who suffered from seizures due to Kawasaki Syndrome, reportedly fell in his hotel bathroom and hit his head sometime between Jan. 1 and 2 while on vacation with his family.

Though the cause of death has yet to be determined, it is widely suspected that the head trauma suffered in the fall killed him.

Jett, his family, and two nannies took a boating trip before returning to the hotel around 6 p.m. on Jan. 1. After the outing, Jett reportedly went to his bedroom to sleep. Police said that he was last seen at around 11:30 p.m. on the night of Jan. 1.

His body was later discovered by the caretaker, Jeff Michael Kathrein, at 10 a.m. on Jan. 2.

According to Michael McDermott, John Travolta’s lawyer and close friend, Jett often slept for 12 — sometimes 16 — hours a day. McDermott said Jett's absence from the family's activity was therefore not unusual, TMZ reported.

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John Travolta's 16-Year Old Son Dies McDermott also said that a nanny or caretaker may have entered the bathroom during the middle of the night, possibly making the time frame even smaller.

The Travolta camp has claimed that few minutes passed between the time Jett hit his head and the time of his death, according to TMZ. McDermott also said that there were attempts to revive Jett at the scene.

"With lots of emotion that goes through a family in a time like this, it's understandable to come to your own ideas or terms, but we have an obligation to assure and convey with our public that the information we give is solid. The investigation is ongoing, but we stand by what we have said," police in the Bahamas told TMZ on Sunday.

There have also been several reports that suggest Travolta, a scientologist, refused to give his son anti-seizure medication.

But Travolta reportedly gave his son Depakote — an anti-seizure medication — for years, TMZ reported. The family eventually stopped administering the drug after it lost its effectiveness, cause Jett “serious physical damage,” McDermott told TMZ.

The grand mal seizures from which Jett suffered were as frequent as once every four days and were considered “extremely serious.”

Travolta, 54, and his wife, actress Kelly Preston, 46, also have an 8-year-old daughter, Ella Bleu. The family had arrived in the Bahamas on a private plane Tuesday and was vacationing at their home in the Old Bahama Bay resort community.

Travolta, who gained fame as Vinnie Barbarino on the 1970s television show "Welcome Back, Kotter" and the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever," went on to become one of Hollywood's biggest names. He married Preston in 1991.

A television actress, Preston appeared with Travolta in the 2000 film "Battlefield Earth," based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

In a statement posted on Preston's Web site, the family thanked fans and friends for sending their love and condolences.

Calling Jett "the most wonderful son that two parents could ever ask for," Preston and Travolta said they were "heartbroken that our time with him was so brief. We will cherish the time we had with him for the rest of our lives."