Swiss Woman Dies After Giving Up Food, Water and Trying to Live Off… Sunlight
- Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:27am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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GENEVA (AP) — 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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Comments (69)
Epic Fail
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:31amAnother Darwin award earned…
Report Post »lbyrd26
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:05amDidn’t I see her in one of those OWS videos.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:28amAh… the Ultimate Green Life Style… !
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:29amYes , natural selection at work. I hope the sunlight gene was not passed on to her offspring………….
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:38pmMust have watched too much of their version of the SyFi channel.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:32am.
Report Post »Even Al Gore didn’t fall for that crap.
Secret Squirrel
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:33am.
Okay, who closed the drapes?
At least we know she wasn’t a vampire.
Report Post »Reavin
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:23amHow dumb can somebody be? Everybody knows you can’t live off Switzerland sunshine. Only pure grade A sunshine from India works. Duhh.
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:28amStupid is as stupid does….and this is news??
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:17amAwesome plan! Let’s volunteer Pelosi, Reid, Sharpton, The Obamas, Jackson, Farrakhan, Weiner, oooo and anyone that supports them Van Jones, Wasserman-Schultz, Waters, I could go on and on to be next in line for this one.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:08amA cousin of wasserman test slutz…I’m sure there are plenty like her who embrace OWS and herr president.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:03amI bet she voted socialist in Switzerland.
Report Post »krispy01
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:00amWay to go Sunshine !
Report Post »G-WHIZ
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:32amOne soooooooo stupid she…. thought(?)…and the light shall destroy the false-hoodies.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:57am….and yet, in this country…we allow them to vote. No wonder we’re in such trouble.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:45amDid she die at night?
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:17pmAhhhh, if it were only that easy.
Report Post »AzSage
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:45amWhat a moron. Got what she deserved.
Report Post »cranberry
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:34amWonder how she got so mixed up. We aren’t plants. Its common sense. But common sense ain’t so common apparently! Sad.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:38amDarwinian.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:11amPlants need more than sunlight- that’s why they have roots and leaves.
Report Post »4truth2all
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:38amI have pity on someone like this who follows the lying Indian guru ( I remember the story).
This is one experimant you better get right cause you only get one attempt at it.
Report Post »HaroldHeard
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:20amOkay last I check mankind was not yet able to process sunlight via Photosynthesis.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:09amStupidity has no geographical boundries. I thought it was just America that was stupid for voting for a prez just b/c he’s black!
Report Post »Madmilo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:57amNow thats really stupid.
Report Post »RxForDeath
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:47amI think she might be on to something here… The Occupoopers should try this out
Report Post »tzion
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:33amConsidering that not even plants can survive without water indefinitely, this was just plain stupid. Survival of the fittest certainly fits here.
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:51amand plants need carbon dioxide to photosynthisize…. so even plants need organic material to create glucose, their food… plants need more than just sun
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:18amShe did a kangaroo on a not-so-true news-crew, that did a story
Report Post »On a voodoo-guru that had a fu-man-Chu with a new-view.
Now she’s doing.. The peek-a-boo ..with the worms.
biohazard23
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:05amLooks like someone just gave the gene pool a necessary shock treatment……
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:51amToo bad more on the left don’t follow her lead.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:03amAnother solar power failure.
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:22amMaybe she was trying to get money from Obama for going green….
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:48am.
I sure hope this becomes a trend among the Man Made Global Warming people……..
How much ya’ll wanna bet her name was Moonbeam………….
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:14amI do to- look at all the trees they could save by not breathing
Report Post »9111315
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:21pmBreathing feeds the trees.
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:43amWow! Sunlight more deadly than eating red meat or second hand smoke….
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:49amHa! No, I‘d rather believe it’s the lying gurus…and the fools who believe them…
Report Post »conservativejon
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:42ambut, but, global warming! Why didnt it work!?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:39amThe gene pool got stronger +++++++++++++++++
Report Post »SageInWaiting
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:44amI think this qualifies for a Darwin Award – maybe not as spectacular and instantaneous as some, but this gal showed dedication to the cause. Thumbs up!
Report Post »KrebsCyclist
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:35amKinda hard to live off the energy of the sun without chloroplasts.
Idiot.
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:32amWell, that was pretty stupid now, wasn’t it?
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:31amWhat, she thought she was a plant? Guess she is now. This is what tree huggers and greenies would have us all do, to, you know, save the planet.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:36amD.amn! You beat me to it.
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