Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight

nydailynews.com ^ | 04/26/2012 | ASSOCIATED PRESS

[massmike]

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.

[21twelve]

I’m thinking she DID reach her goal - living the rest of her life on sunlight. And I heard it wasn’t starvation that did her in - but a Vitamin D overdose. ;)

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Interesting...sign me up!

[Tax-chick]

The Undead are largely unconstrained, except by the bonds of amity. The Undead Thread is a peripatetic social event, to which all are invited. There are rules, which can be summarized as “Be fun, or sad, or completely off your rocker, but don’t be obnoxious.”

[Tax-chick]

I’ll ping you to the current Undead Thread.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Thanks. I’ll try not to be obnoxious, but I can’t help it if I’m a bit gassy.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, that’s so common as to be unremarkable.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

I usually blame it on the horse...

[combat_boots]

“Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy.....”

[ThomasThomas]

There isn’t enough sunlight that far north, everybody should know that this only works between the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn. That far north the diet must be supplemented by chewing on whale blubber.

[Tax-chick]

It works for the Queen, they say.

[SunkenCiv]

This is one good reason not to name one’s daughter “Sunny Rae”.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I know....but I’m mum..

2006 is the key.....to WHAT, I have no idea.

[NicknamedBob]

"2006 is the key.....to WHAT, I have no idea."

Pandora's Box, most likely.

Either that, or Pelosi's Botox, maybe. How else could she have said all that stuff with a straight face?

[mtg]

...Indian guru who claims to have lived this way for 70 years.

Yeah, right. I'd like to see the documentation that validates that.

[stephenjohnbanker]

sincere.....L O L

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

rofl