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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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Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight; Woman gave up food and water on spiritual journey

1 posted on 04/26/2012 7:29:27 AM PDT by massmike
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To: massmike

She almost made it, but died shortly before achieving her goal!


2 posted on 04/26/2012 7:30:54 AM PDT by cartan
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To: massmike

She was a light eater.


3 posted on 04/26/2012 7:31:00 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Somebody was going to say it anyway.)
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To: massmike

More food for the rest of us.


4 posted on 04/26/2012 7:31:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: massmike

Sounds like she was as successful as Solyndra.


5 posted on 04/26/2012 7:31:38 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: NicknamedBob; Anoreth; Darksheare; fanfan; Monkey Face

Could this be the May Undead Thread? Seriesly crazy!


6 posted on 04/26/2012 7:32:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Ten the hard way. (Day 14, -10 lbs.))
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To: massmike

Come on now. She should have known that you need water for photosynthesis...

and chlorophyl and CO2, of course, but I assume she’d taken care of that first.


7 posted on 04/26/2012 7:32:03 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: massmike

Darwin, you magnificent bastard!


8 posted on 04/26/2012 7:32:09 AM PDT by magellan
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To: massmike

Presume she died with a nice tan anyway.


9 posted on 04/26/2012 7:32:25 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: massmike

Darwin at work.


10 posted on 04/26/2012 7:32:31 AM PDT by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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Didn’t she have a map? Switzerland does not get anywhere near the amount of sunlight that India does.


11 posted on 04/26/2012 7:32:36 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: massmike

Look at the bright side, being a pallbearer at her funeral should be easy duty.


12 posted on 04/26/2012 7:33:13 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: massmike

The Solyndra diet. Solyndra died too.


13 posted on 04/26/2012 7:33:28 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
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To: Charles Henrickson
she was a light eater

LOL... beat me to it.

14 posted on 04/26/2012 7:34:28 AM PDT by Third Person
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Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight

Although sometimes she would cheat by eating the holes in Swiss cheese.

15 posted on 04/26/2012 7:34:43 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Hole food diet.)
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To: reg45

Obama wants us all to live on sunlight.


16 posted on 04/26/2012 7:34:43 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: massmike

Runner up for Darwin Awards?

Who is front runner?


17 posted on 04/26/2012 7:35:01 AM PDT by trotskylvalia (where nose meets the grindstone)
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To: massmike
Sounds like the model for the currant administrations energy policy.
18 posted on 04/26/2012 7:35:01 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: massmike

Wonder how long she lasted?

As far as I can tell it wasn’t very long.


19 posted on 04/26/2012 7:35:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: massmike

Her mother was a plant.


20 posted on 04/26/2012 7:35:59 AM PDT by bmwcyle (I am ready to serve Jesus on Earth because the GOP failed again)
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