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Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight
nydailynews.com ^ | 04/26/2012 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 04/26/2012 7:29:15 AM PDT by massmike

Edited on 04/26/2012 7:34:25 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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.


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To: magellan

” Darwin, you magnificent bastard”

Well... almost, she was 50 so whatever damage she was going to inflict on the gene pool had already been accomplished.


41 posted on 04/26/2012 8:17:01 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: massmike

I don’t think she was really Swiss, she sounds more like a plant...


42 posted on 04/26/2012 8:18:39 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1192 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: massmike

Sunshine by day and moonshine by night is a much more harmonious life sustaining balance IMO, eheheheh!


43 posted on 04/26/2012 8:19:18 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: massmike

Try putting a plant in the sun without water and it will die also.


44 posted on 04/26/2012 8:21:05 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: massmike

Can we now call her Mello Yello or Sunny?

How do we know she didn’t OD on Vitamin D???

Did she use the Sun to try and make her own ‘light’ beer?

That 1980s pop-synth band, A-ha, did create a very popular song called, “The Sun Always Shines On TV.” Maybe she should have been on TV.

Was she a blonde by any chance? If so, here’s a joke.

A Russian, an American, and a Blonde were talking one day. The Russian said, “We were the first in space!”
The American said, “We were the first on the moon!”
The Blonde said, “So what, we’re going to be the first on the sun!”
The Russian and the American looked at each other and shook their heads. “You can’t land on the sun, you idiot! You’ll burn up!” said the Russian.
To which the Blonde replied, “We’re not stupid, you know. we’re going at night!”


45 posted on 04/26/2012 8:22:08 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: massmike

When stupid die. It makes me giggle.


46 posted on 04/26/2012 8:23:17 AM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: denydenydeny
Oh, that's the problem. If she'd done it in a sunnier area she'd be doing fine.
47 posted on 04/26/2012 8:29:49 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: massmike

I bet her favorite song was, “Blinded By The Light” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. All we need now are a good set of parody lyrics just for her!

Will she be still voting for Obama this November?


48 posted on 04/26/2012 8:31:18 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Or Smashmouth’s “Walking On the Sun.”


49 posted on 04/26/2012 8:31:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: massmike

Photosynthesis does work for humans, no matter how “green” you think you are.


50 posted on 04/26/2012 8:32:14 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: massmike

Related news article:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/065njdoe.asp
The Silent Scream of the Asparagus
Get ready for ‘plant rights.’

You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the “dignity” of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called “plant rights” is being seriously debated.


51 posted on 04/26/2012 8:33:43 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: massmike; mikrofon; Charles Henrickson; Slings and Arrows; SunkenCiv
Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight

COOL STORY,

BROMELIAD

52 posted on 04/26/2012 8:34:54 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Ich bin ein Suntanner)
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To: Charles Henrickson

I bet another favorite song of hers was, “You Light Up My Life” by Debbie Boone!


53 posted on 04/26/2012 8:36:35 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: massmike

If she was married to an Egyptian man the clock is ticking for his final coitus.


54 posted on 04/26/2012 8:46:21 AM PDT by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson

Confucius say: “Swiss who depend only on sun likely get Bern’d.”


55 posted on 04/26/2012 9:11:55 AM PDT by mikrofon (Sol-searching gone awryÂ…)
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To: massmike
an Indian guru who claims to have lived this way for 70 years

Yeah, the operative word here is "claims". Its surprising that someone as stupid as this woman could actually live to be in her fifties in the first place...

56 posted on 04/26/2012 9:42:09 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: massmike
They have plenty of sunlight in Africa...and yet...

That could have been a clue for her...

57 posted on 04/26/2012 9:42:29 AM PDT by Moltke (Always retaliate first.)
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To: massmike

Regardless the discussion, an eating disorder is just that. Those who have them are very good at excuses and cover stories.


58 posted on 04/26/2012 10:01:46 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Sicon
Yeah, the operative word here is "claims". Its surprising that someone as stupid as this woman could actually live to be in her fifties in the first place...

I knew someone who claimed to be a vegetarian, but managed to sneak in the occasional hamburger.

59 posted on 04/26/2012 10:02:53 AM PDT by Third Person
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