Woman on sunlight diet dies - read here!

mfp_junkie
mfp_junkie Posts: 359
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I kid you not, this was at www.canoe.ca, a news site. Link and story below.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2012/04/25/19677331.html

A Swiss woman is dead after trying to live on sunlight alone.

It was part of a spiritual journey for the woman, identified in the story with the fake name Anna Good, who was reportedly inspired by a 2010 documentary In the Beginning There Was Light. The film tells the story of people who follow a concept called breatharianism and they claim to survive without eating or drinking anything for weeks, years or even decades.

Good saw the movie in 2010, the Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger reports. She started on the diet, going so far as to spit out her saliva.

In early 2011, after her children hadn't heard from Good, they went to her home and found her body.

Police conducted an investigation and on Wednesday, district attorney Thomas Burgi told the newspaper the case was closed because there was no evidence of "foreign influence" in Good's death.
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  • angieleighbyrd
    angieleighbyrd Posts: 989 Member
    Are you surprised?
  • aweightymatter
    aweightymatter Posts: 222
    Darwin award!
  • cwilli36
    cwilli36 Posts: 45 Member
    Wow.. I don't even know what to say to something like that!
  • DaBossLady24
    DaBossLady24 Posts: 556 Member
    New episode on 1,000 ways to die? :noway:
  • AnninStPaul
    AnninStPaul Posts: 1,372 Member
    Darwin award!

    ^^YES!!
  • hiker282
    hiker282 Posts: 983 Member
    This is what happens when everybody tells you that you are a special little flower and you start to believe it.
  • JupitersGhost
    JupitersGhost Posts: 64 Member
    As much as I love the sun, I love food more.

    Such a pity people fall for such codswallop.
  • TK266
    TK266 Posts: 3,638 Member
    and this is why you always uses sunscreen!!!!
  • ZebraHead
    ZebraHead Posts: 15,207 Member
    < is a special little flower DAMN-IT!! :angry:
  • nabauer86
    nabauer86 Posts: 39
    Wow. We're humans, not plants. *sigh*
  • ShanR77
    ShanR77 Posts: 287 Member
    New episode on 1,000 ways to die? :noway:

    Oh wow can't wait to see that episode.....:noway:
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    What a complete dumbass. Now she is a shriveld up raisin and should be easy to carry in her box. Well at least we all know that diet doesnt work.
  • BeautifulScarsWECHANGED
    BeautifulScarsWECHANGED Posts: 749 Member
    What the....whaaaat?
  • TheReese1206
    TheReese1206 Posts: 238
    This is so sad. I honestly can't believe she did that.
  • MeredithRN
    MeredithRN Posts: 119 Member
    Wow... yes, sort of In the Beginning There was Light...

    and then if you keep reading....

    God made trees bearing fruit. For a reason.

    How sad.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    There are people known as Breatharians who really believe they don't need food just air and sun.
    http://breatharian.info/
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    This makes me want a cheeseburger.
  • Anayalata
    Anayalata Posts: 391 Member
    Wow. We're humans, not plants. *sigh*

    lol Couldn't have put it better myself.
  • Mads1997
    Mads1997 Posts: 1,494 Member
    *Shakes Head* Some people!!
  • gracefulotus
    gracefulotus Posts: 42
    I met someone who had transitioned from eating food to fruit (fruitarian), and who was aiming to live off the energy of the universe.... and he was a nurse.
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    But she know her body and who are we to judge we just do not understand and there is the spirituality aspect and Jesus did it


    Did I cover every everything?

    :sick:
  • lickmybaconcakes
    lickmybaconcakes Posts: 1,063 Member
    Surely she knew humans do not photosynthesis...
  • ZebraHead
    ZebraHead Posts: 15,207 Member
    Well I guess we have now "jumped the shark" on this thread....

    Time to mosey on over to the "Don't wipe my butt in front of my spouse" thread
  • MeredithRN
    MeredithRN Posts: 119 Member
    But she know her body and who are we to judge we just do not understand and there is the spirituality aspect and Jesus did it


    Did I cover every everything?

    :sick:


    Jesus is Jesus- he survived the fasting- (and later beat death). She was ill. Not comparable.

    It is very unfortunate. :frown:
  • Jorra
    Jorra Posts: 3,338 Member
    and I thought a 7 day water fast was f***ing stupid...
  • Lissakaye81
    Lissakaye81 Posts: 224 Member
    Darwin award!
    I 2nd the Vote! She already pro-created though.
  • trinitrate
    trinitrate Posts: 219 Member
    What a complete dumbass. Now she is a shriveld up raisin and should be easy to carry in her box. Well at least we all know that diet doesnt work.



    What are you talking about? I'm sure she died thinner and lighter than she was when she started....
  • Thomasm198
    Thomasm198 Posts: 3,189 Member
    I thought I had heard all levels of craziness on the forums. Now I have. :noway:
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,996 Member
    She was shooting for more Vitamin D. Too bad "ead" followed it.


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  • Nopedotjpeg
    Nopedotjpeg Posts: 1,805 Member
    The gene pool just got a little cleaner.

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