Swiss woman dies from ill-conceived Sunlight Diet

[mydeathspace]

A Swiss woman who attempted to live off of an unusual diet of only air and sunlight, in a quest for spiritual awakening, has died.

The Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reported on Wednesday that the woman had starved herself to death by taking part in a spiritual diet in which she was unable to consume any food or drink -- attempting to subside only off of the sun.

The woman, who was said to have been in her 50s, decided to undertake the extreme diet after having watched a controversial Australian documentary on breatharianism. The 2010 documentary, "In the Beginning There Was Light," told the story of an Indian guru who claimed to have lived off sunlight and without food or water for 70 years.

The unidentified woman spent an entire week eating and drinking nothing. According to the report, she stopped the diet for several weeks but eventually resumed the diet and lost her life. She was found dead in Jan. 2011 in her home in the eastern Swiss town of Wolfhalden.

It is unclear why the paper waited over a year to report the news of the unusual death but Swiss prosecutors have not opened an investigation into the death and the cause of death has been ruled as starvation.

Similar cases have been reported in Austria, Germany, and the U.K., according to the Zurich-based Tages-Anzeiger.

http://global.christianpost.com/news...ht-diet-73972/

[Ron_NYC]

[Ron_NYC]

[ZoMyGoddess!]

what an asshole. even fucking plants need water. i wish she would have taken my bio class.

"who's hungry"
*children raise their hands
"ok have a seat near the window, have some yummy sunlight"
"we cant eat sunlight"...
"why not"..... i keep asking until one smartypants answers that "we dont have chloroplasts filled with chlorophyll"

[neenerneener]

what a fucking dumbass.

[jessielee]

Im going to eat the suuuuuuuunnnnnn

[FloobaToob]

Heeeyyy, she may have found some serious spiritual enlightenment! But wow, people get stupider.

[Monter]

Mental illness is a bitch

[White trash bitchy blonde]

I was expecting this to be about one of the women who participated in the 'Wife Swap' TV show. The one woman did the whole sinlight diet thing, she was a nutter.

Really, Im not sure why people think that this would work. Our bodies need actual nourishment.

Also, how do they 'sneak' little treats while on their diets? Do they hide pictures of the moon under their bed and wank off to them? Moon porn...heh.

[neenerneener]

Mental illness is a bitch

I didn't see anything in the article that pointed to an extreme mental illness or anything. Just stupidity.

[Monter]

Starvation is not A quick or easy way to die ( which you know, obviously lol). Anyone that can fly in the face of reality to the point they wither and die from it has some kind of mental illness going on. Flying in the face of logic to where it slowly kills you is delusional.

[kevansvault]

"Sometimmees All I need is the air that I breathe"....BULLSHIT that's all you need! You're FIFTY years old and you haven't figured it out yet? DAMN! And you stick to the crap you were told about some Indian guru who lived off sunlight for 70 years? Jeezus lady! You're not full of chlorophyll! Repeat after me: "I am not a plant." Oh wait, you can't because you're dead. Good grief.

[neenerneener]

Starvation is not A quick or easy way to die ( which you know, obviously lol). Anyone that can fly in the face of reality to the point they wither and die from it has some kind of mental illness going on. Flying in the face of logic to where it slowly kills you is delusional.

But then does that mean that people who won't give their kids traditional medicine, or people who refuse things like blood transfusions (for religious reasons) even though their lives depend on it, are mentally ill? I mean, where do we draw the line between mental illness and stupidity here?

[Monter]

But then does that mean that people who won't give their kids traditional medicine, or people who refuse things like blood transfusions (for religious reasons) even though their lives depend on it, are mentally ill? I mean, where do we draw the line between mental illness and stupidity here?

Honestly I think most things are a continuum. People can believe anything they want and it doesnt necessarily indicate a mental illness. However, denial of very obvious reality based things is by definition a mental illness. Humans cannot survive without some form of sustenance mthat is a basic fact of reality that cannot be mitigated by a belief system. The "logic" even behind crazyness is judged qualitatively.
A schizophrenic who goes off there meds because they believe they are too toxic has a case- there is something at least remotely reality based in that assertion. People are allowed to refuse treatment for disease for a myriad of reasons, including flat out denial, because in reality we have no GUARANTEE that the cure will not be worse than the disease. There has to be some basic semblance of reality based logic , or at the least, the recognition of the symptoms that "this shit aint working".

[Ron_NYC]

But then does that mean that people who won't give their kids traditional medicine, or people who refuse things like blood transfusions (for religious reasons) even though their lives depend on it, are mentally ill? I mean, where do we draw the line between mental illness and stupidity here?

Yes.

[Yomalex3]

Well we have Darwin Awards for a reason and thanks to people like her we will continue to have them.

[PunkerDuckie]

Crazy doesn't always have to mean have a mental condition. It is possible she was just stupid at first, but then as her body began to shut down it made her delusional and she continued. Instability in your basic homeostasis can cause spontaneous "craziness". I've seen normal people become total nutters just because they didn't have enough oxygen going to their brains, or because their blood sugar was out of whack. She had to be all kinds of fucked up on the inside from lacking basic nutrients and such before it killed her.