[NotTheGuyYouKill]

As in a diet of sunlight only.

http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8458...ve-on-sunlight

Swiss authorities have confirmed a woman starved to death after she embarked on a "spiritual diet" and tried to survive on sunlight alone. The woman, aged in her fifties, is reported to have stopped eating and drinking in 2010 after watching a documentary about an Indian guru who claimed to have lived that way for 70 years. She prepared for the diet by reading a book by Australian "breatharian" Ellen Greve, who goes by the name Jasmuheen. As directed, in the first week the Swiss woman did not eat or drink anything — even spitting out her saliva — before resuming drinking for occasional periods. She told her children she would stop fasting if it became dangerous but Swiss authorities confirmed this week the woman died in January 2011 in the town of Wolfhalden in eastern Switzerland. A spokeswoman for local prosecutors said no criminal investigation had begun into the woman's death. It is the fourth death linked to breatharianism since the practice emerged in the 1990s.

It's weird that it's announced over a year later.

But that is seriously stupid.

[macuser1of5]

i blame the clouds

[Zoramon089]

There's really nothing to say about this that wouldn't come off as offensive so I'll just keep my mouth shut

[Prost]

It is said that the Dragon Warrior can survive for months at a time on nothing but the dew of a single Ginko leaf and the energy of the universe.

[SoulPlaya]

You can't just drastically change your diet like that after so many years.

[Soka]

I'm just going to say it before someone else does.

RIP.

[catfish]

for articles like this, I really think they should be more merciless with the headlines. Something like

'dumb bitch dies'

because what the fuck.

[speculawyer]

i blame the clouds

[Tunavi]

youdontsay.jpg

[LeadProtagonist]

Ugh, when I worked in a bookstore I actually had to sell people books about this kind of thing without being allowed to tell them how dangerous these courses of action would be.

Nine times out of ten when someone asked for help finding something in the natural medicine section it would be a generally sad affair.

[Volimar]

I didn't like the Twilight movies either, but this is going a bit too far...

[Raxus]

Look at the bright side.

She lost all that weight.

[Izick]

Yikes. I feel sorry, but if she fell for that...well, she likely had some bad things coming.

[Orayn]

I don't find this the least bit funny - Lots of people are killed, injured or sickened on a routine basis by believing in this garbage. If we had better science education and taught people the basic critical thinking skills needed to realize when something is garbage, we'd be better equipped to fight back.

[macuser1of5]

You can't just drastically change your diet like that after so many years.

this is why i'm raising my toddler son on uv lamps and rice. hope to phase the rice out of the diet by age three but that might be difficult.

[DiscoJer]

I don't find this the least bit funny - Lots of people are killed, injured or sickened on a routine basis by believing in this garbage. If we had better science education and taught people the basic critical thinking skills needed to realize when something is garbage, we'd be better equipped to fight back.

4 deaths since the 1990s...that's not exactly a lot in a planet of what, 7 billion people?

I think the bigger problem is the people who are dying because they don't have proper food or water to eat and drink.

[manipulate]

OK - I admit it. I cracked up when I read that headline.

[Prost]

I don't find this the least bit funny - Lots of people are killed, injured or sickened on a routine basis by believing in this garbage. If we had better science education and taught people the basic critical thinking skills needed to realize when something is garbage, we'd be better equipped to fight back.

Who are you talking to? This lady was living in one the best countries for public education. All the critical thinking in the world wasn't going to save her, she was just plain crazy/stupid.

[Speevy]

[Rygar 8 Bit]

[IrrelevantNotch]

A shining example to society

[Hero_of_the_Day]

I hope she and the 8 liters of coke a day lady are chilling out in the afterlife.

[LeadProtagonist]

4 deaths since the 1990s...that's not exactly a lot in a planet of what, 7 billion people?

I'm pretty sure he's talking about the more broad spectrum of alternative medicine, which tells people such things as "if you have cancer you can cure yourself with just water, don't bother with a doctor" or in this case "you can live healthier by just absorbing sunlight and not eating anything".

There's a lot of terrible misinformation that's published and sold without any warning on it, for the express purpose of profit at what will surely be the expense of another. Possibly even, as in this circumstance, their life.

[RiccochetJ]

So how exactly was she going to get water into her system? Osmosis? Hell she was even spitting out her saliva!

[Bitmap Frogs]

And the criminals who promote this shit in order to get rich off people selling books or teaching at seminars walk free.

This world...

[Izick]

I don't find this the least bit funny - Lots of people are killed, injured or sickened on a routine basis by believing in this garbage. If we had better science education and taught people the basic critical thinking skills needed to realize when something is garbage, we'd be better equipped to fight back.

Yeah, it's a shame, but there's always going to be somebody out there who wants to believe in this kind of bullshit no matter what. You can teach them all you want, but there will still be people that will try things that we all know are just plain idiotic.

I'm not saying you're wrong though, teaching more would definitely help tons more people in the long run, but if this woman honestly didn't start to think something was up when she was near starvation, then there may have been something mentally wrong on a different level. Obviously she said that she'd stop if it became dangerous, but she didn't even know when to do that.

Who I really feel bad for are her kids. They're going to have to live without a mother because some asshole that wanted to make a quick buck of a book or class told her that she'd be fine without eating or drinking anything. Fuck, that makes me sick.

[catfish]

I don't find this the least bit funny - Lots of people are killed, injured or sickened on a routine basis by believing in this garbage. If we had better science education and taught people the basic critical thinking skills needed to realize when something is garbage, we'd be better equipped to fight back.

well that's the thing, do we need all these dumb people? I would wager that the answer is 'probably not'.

Also, think of all the sunlight she was using to get her calories, it's a limited resource probably some others had to go without while she was using all theirs.

Also, I just learned that a 'breatharian' exists.

Breatharians believe that a person can give up food and water altogether and live purely off prana, which they also call "living on light" or "living on air." Foremost Breatharian, Jasmuheen, formerly Ellen Greve, is credited with starting today's Breatharian movement. Her Prana Program advises followers to convert to Breatharianism gradually: Become a vegetarian; become a vegan; move to raw foods, then fruits, then liquids and finally prana. You replace physical food with air and light as well as metaphysical nourishment.

[Zoramon089]

I . . . she wasn't from some 3rd world country where she didn't have access to information. She really has no excuse

[RiccochetJ]

I want a camera on this Jasmuheen 24/7. She can never be alone. Even when taking a shit. Actually, would she ever have to?

[apana]

It's possible to do meditation and be open to the concept of prana without being crazy, but I admit there are a lot of charlatans out there looking to make a quick buck or feel important.

[Raxus]

Who are you talking to? This lady was living in one the best countries for public education. All the critical thinking in the world wasn't going to save her, she was just plain crazy/stupid.

Steve Jobs delayed treatment for prostate cancer in order to go on an all vegan diet hoping that would treat it. He delayed a treatment of an early diagnosis by nine months.

Source

Yet to the horror of the tiny circle of intimates in whom he'd confided, Jobs was considering not having the surgery at all. A Buddhist and vegetarian, the Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) CEO was skeptical of mainstream medicine. Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid the operation through a special diet - a course of action that hasn't been disclosed until now.

Needless to say, if it sounds too good to be true it usually is. Please eat healthy.

[dankir]

FUCKIN' BEATEN!

[Gospel]

Sunlight doesn't even taste good, what was she thinking?

[catfish]

Steve Jobs delayed treatment for prostate cancer in order to go on an all vegan diet hoping that would treat it. He delayed a treatment of an early diagnosis by nine months. Source Needless to say, if it sounds too good to be true it usually is. Please eat healthy.

pancreatic. He was also one of the lucky few that get diagnosed with pancreatic cancer to have a treatable form if caught early (which it was). As I understand it, normally pancreatic cancer is 'that's it you're fucked' but his type was not like that. Until he 'treated it' by using moonbeams and rainbows and it spread into the 'you're fucked' kind.

[maxxpower]

Look at the bright side. She lost all that weight.

Not really, if you don't eat your metabolism slows the fuck down.

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

You can't just drastically change your diet like that after so many years.

I hope this post was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

[Raxus]

Not really, if you don't eat your metabolism slows the fuck down.

If you die all that heavy skin just sloughs right off eventually.

[Prost]

Steve Jobs delayed treatment for prostate cancer in order to go on an all vegan diet hoping that would treat it. He delayed a treatment of an early diagnosis by nine months. Source Needless to say, if it sounds too good to be true it usually is. Please eat healthy.

Crazy doesn't discriminate.

[onemic]

This entire time I thought the OP said that she died due to living off of nothing but Sunny Delight. What a way to go if that would have been the case.

[macuser1of5]

This entire time I thought the OP said that she died due to living off of nothing but Sunny Delight. What a way to go if that would have been the case.

the shits you would take ... ugh no thanks.

[Count Dookkake]

I guess you could say she was a light eater.

[Izick]

This entire time I thought the OP said that she died due to living off of nothing but Sunny Delight. What a way to go if that would have been the case.

I want that purple stuff.

[onemic]

the shits you would take ... ugh no thanks.

She would die looking orange. I wanna go out like that.........nah

[macuser1of5]

She would die looking orange. I wanna go out like that.........nah

she could eat silver too and well, i don't really know what that would look like.

[Cloudius12]

'..If only I could be so grossly incandescent...'

[Ghost_Protocol]

As I was scrolling down the thread I thought to myself, "There's no fucking way I'm gonna have to be the first person to do this. Just no way."

[Orayn]

I . . . she wasn't from some 3rd world country where she didn't have access to information. She really has no excuse

I blame the purple promoting this crap. Syne people have a want/need to believe in stuff like this, and serving them the wrong kind of nonsense basically guarantees their death.

[Staccat0]

But how did she die??????

[onemic]

As I was scrolling down the thread I thought to myself, "There's no fucking way I'm gonna have to be the first person to do this. Just no way."

GREATNESS

[Izick]

But how did she die??????

Starvation, exhaustion, dehydration? All guesses though.