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    Woman on sunlight diet dies - read here!

    Posts: 359
    edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
    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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    • Posts: 989 Member
      Are you surprised?
    • Posts: 222
      Darwin award!
    • Posts: 45 Member
      Wow.. I don't even know what to say to something like that!
    • Posts: 556 Member
      New episode on 1,000 ways to die? :noway:
    • Posts: 1,372 Member
      Darwin award!

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

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

      Oh wow can't wait to see that episode.....:noway:
    • 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.
    • Posts: 749 Member
      What the....whaaaat?
    • Posts: 238
      This is so sad. I honestly can't believe she did that.
    • 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.
    • 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/
    • Posts: 1,816 Member
      This makes me want a cheeseburger.
    • Posts: 391 Member
      Wow. We're humans, not plants. *sigh*

      lol Couldn't have put it better myself.
    • Posts: 1,494 Member
      *Shakes Head* Some people!!
    • 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.
    • 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:
    • Posts: 1,063 Member
      Surely she knew humans do not photosynthesis...
    • 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
    • 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:
    • Posts: 3,338 Member
      and I thought a 7 day water fast was f***ing stupid...
    • Posts: 224 Member
      Darwin award!
      I 2nd the Vote! She already pro-created though.
    • 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....
    • Posts: 3,189 Member
      I thought I had heard all levels of craziness on the forums. Now I have. :noway:
    • Posts: 49,169 Member
      She was shooting for more Vitamin D. Too bad "ead" followed it.


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