That freaks me out.
Wasn't room 174 the place where they starved and tortured that woman to death because she was gonna leave their "church"?
I recall reading something like that in the St Petersburg Tribune a few years back.
Partially correct. Lisa McPherson was starved and dehydrated to death after she suffered an emotional breakdown at the age of 36.
In Scientology, when a person falls to 2 or below on the Emotional Tone Scale devised by L. Ron Hubbard, they cease to be worthy human beings. Scientology preaches the utopian notion of a fit, healthy, able-bodied and perfect society. Mentally and physically disabled persons are afforded no rights in The Church of Scientology. They're seen as a burden on society ("useless eaters", if you will), and hence, they must be destroyed.
It's the same type of totalitarian self-help/only-the-strong-survive philosohy that the nazis use to take Europe, only its been modified for modern western culture.
It's just Lucifer, wearing a different mask and using the different tools at his disposal.