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Old Apr 25, 2012, 02:45 PM   #1
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GENEVA—Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger reports that a woman starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off sunlight alone.

The Zurich newspaper reported Wednesday that the unnamed Swiss woman in her fifties decided to follow the radical fast in 2010 after viewing an Austrian documentary about an Indian guru who claims to have lived this way for 70 years.

Tages-Anzeiger says there have been similar cases of self-starvation in Germany, Britain and Australia.

The prosecutors’ office in the Swiss canton (state) of Aargau confirmed Wednesday that the woman died in January 2011 in the town of Wolfhalden in eastern Switzerland.

Spokeswoman Jennifer Rissi says prosecutors haven’t opened a criminal investigation over the woman’s death.
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 02:58 PM   #3
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Aaaaahhh the ole Vitamin D diet? It doesn't work on mortals.
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 03:56 PM   #4
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Apparently, she wasn't a Plant.
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 03:59 PM   #5
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This has been going on for a long time. More than a few people have died from it.

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Old Apr 25, 2012, 04:00 PM   #6
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 04:27 PM   #7
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This has been going on for a long time. More than a few people have died from it.

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Well, you have to admit, if you die, you truly do overcome hunger, physical illness, mental illness and spiritual ignorance
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 04:49 PM   #8
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 05:21 PM   #9
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I laughed out loud!
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 05:32 PM   #10
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One does not simply stop eating. That's just stupid. You need to slowly wean yourself off of food. Everyone knows that.
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 06:45 PM   #11
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She didnt die, she's just in hibernation flux until the sun comes back....because its winter and there is no sun.....
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Old Apr 25, 2012, 11:45 PM   #12
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Old Apr 26, 2012, 12:19 AM   #13
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She might have been a plant, did anyone actually try to put here in potting soil and water her? No they did not.
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Old Apr 26, 2012, 12:22 AM   #14
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She might have been a plant, did anyone actually try to put here in potting soil and water her? No they did not.
Well shes in the soil now.

Sad, sad, sad.
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Old Apr 26, 2012, 01:32 AM   #16
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I wonder if she forgot to send 5 magic rings to 5 special young people?
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Maybe Geneva is just too far north for this to work? India gets more direct sunlight. Maybe she was a tropical plant trying to feed in a temperate zone?
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Well, you have to admit, if you die, you truly do overcome hunger, physical illness, mental illness and spiritual ignorance
After starving for a while, your body just gives up and you don't even feel hunger anymore. And you start having illusions and can't think properly. That's why people can literally starve to death, even if there is food right in the next room.
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How long did she live on this diet?

If she lasted more than a few days without water, she may have stumbled on something...
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I read this article about this scientist that wanted to prove that the need to eat was just in the mind, and that we didn't need to actually eat. Just when he was going to prove it, he had to stop, because his donkey died
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I read this article about this scientist that wanted to prove that the need to eat was just in the mind, and that we didn't need to actually eat. Just when he was going to prove it, he had to stop, because his donkey died
What?
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He stopped because his sense came to right after the donkey satiated his hunger.
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he was not feeding his donkey, thus it died.
Oh, so the donkey was the experiment. I knew that. I was think the same thing.
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