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Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight
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| 04/26/2012
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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.
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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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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Religion; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: napl; wenttoogreen
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Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight; Woman gave up food and water on spiritual journey
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:29:27 AM PDT
by
massmike
To: massmike
She almost made it, but died shortly before achieving her goal!
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:30:54 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: massmike
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:31:00 AM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(Somebody was going to say it anyway.)
To: massmike
More food for the rest of us.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:31:29 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: massmike
Sounds like she was as successful as Solyndra.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:31:38 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: NicknamedBob; Anoreth; Darksheare; fanfan; Monkey Face
Could this be the May Undead Thread? Seriesly crazy!
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:32:03 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Ten the hard way. (Day 14, -10 lbs.))
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.
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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)
To: massmike
Darwin, you magnificent bastard!
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:32:09 AM PDT
by
magellan
To: massmike
Presume she died with a nice tan anyway.
To: massmike
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:32:31 AM PDT
by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: massmike
Didn’t she have a map? Switzerland does not get anywhere near the amount of sunlight that India does.
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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)
To: massmike
Look at the bright side, being a pallbearer at her funeral should be easy duty.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:33:13 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: massmike
The Solyndra diet. Solyndra died too.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:33:28 AM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class!)
To: Charles Henrickson
she was a light eaterLOL... beat me to it.
To: massmike; mikrofon; martin_fierro
Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight Although sometimes she would cheat by eating the holes in Swiss cheese.
To: reg45
Obama wants us all to live on sunlight.
To: massmike
Runner up for Darwin Awards?
Who is front runner?
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:35:01 AM PDT
by
trotskylvalia
(where nose meets the grindstone)
To: massmike
Sounds like the model for the currant administrations energy policy.
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posted on
04/26/2012 7:35:01 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: massmike
Wonder how long she lasted?
As far as I can tell it wasn’t very long.
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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?)
To: massmike
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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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