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Brother wants answers on Scientologist's suicide

Title: Brother wants answers on Scientologist's suicide
Date: Monday, 23 November 2009
Publisher: Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Author: Emma Rodgers
Main source: abc.net.au

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A man whose Scientologist brother committed suicide has urged Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to allow a parliamentary inquiry into the controversial church. Thirty-year-old Edward McBride killed himself in the Brisbane suburb of Everton Park in February 2007. Mr McBride had been a member of the Church of Scientology for about two years and had paid $25,000 for various courses. A coroner's inquiry into his death heard evidence that members of the church had contacted him 19 times in the days before ... [Read the rest at abc.net.au]