http://www.tvguide.com/News/Jett-Travolta-dies-1001235.aspx?rss=breakingnews&partnerid=imdb&profileid=01
It's pretty straight forward.
It's pretty straight forward.
Though in the past there have been reports that Jett was autistic, Travolta instead said that his son suffered from Kawasaki Syndrome, a disease characterized by high fever, skin rash and swelling of the lymph nodes. Travolta is a follower of Scientology, which does not recognize autism.
http://www.torontomike.com/2009/01/scientology_autism_and_the_dea.htmlaccording to the incontrovertible doctrine of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard - he be labeled a "degraded being" that brought his affliction onto himself.
Deci said:So it's highly likely he had autism and never received any treatment for it.
Most patients with Kawasaki syndrome will recover completely, but about 1-2% will die as a result of blood clots forming in the coronary arteries or as a result of a heart attack. Deaths are sudden and unpredictable. Almost 95% of fatalities occur within six months of infection, but some have been reported as long as 10 years afterward. Long-term follow-up of patients with aneurysms indicates that about half show some healing of the aneurysm. The remaining half has a high risk of heart complications in later life.
Vampire_Hunter_Bob said:Anyways, my guess is his son died from Kawasaki Syndrome or an illness caused from the syndrome.
Well to be fair the news doesn't understand autism either. There are sever types of autism depending on it's severity. If you'd like to learn more I suggest either of these two links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism and http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htmDeci said:All I said was it's fucked up that it was even possible, I don't write the news articles. It seems they changed the article to exclude the quote I used saying that Jett most likely had autism. I don't fully understand autism, but I'd say at this point it didn't have anything to do with his death.
Scientology is still pretty hilarious though.
NASSAU, Bahamas - Authorities in the Bahamas have charged an island lawmaker and detained two other people in an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son, police said Friday.
Two of the suspects ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne and former tourism minister Obie Wilchcombe were detained on Friday. Earlier, several tabloids quoted Lightbourne describing efforts to revive the celebrity's chronically ill son, Jett, who died of a seizure this month at their family vacation home on Grand Bahama.
Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, an attorney from Grand Bahama, was arrested on Thursday. She was charged with abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort and released Friday on $40,000 bail, according to Assistant Superintendent of Police Loretta Mackey.
Authorities said Travolta filed a complaint of attempted extortion but they did not reveal what the allegations involved. The actor and his wife Kelly Preston returned home to Florida with the ashes of their 16-year-old son, and Travolta's publicist Paul Bloch said Friday that he has no comment.
Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Marvin Dames said Lightbourne the ambulance driver was detained after police issued an alert that he was wanted for attempted extortion, was "considered dangerous and should be approached with caution."
Lightbourne remained in police custody late Friday and was assisting police, according to a police statement.
Wilchcombe a member of the Bahamas parliament and an ex-tourism minister was arrested Friday in connection with the complaint, questioned by police and released "pending further investigations," Mackey said.
Wilchcombe has described himself as a friend of Travolta who was with the actor shortly after his son died.