A Swiss woman who
attempted to live off of an unusual diet of only air and sunlight, in a quest
for spiritual awakening, has died.
The woman had
starved herself to death by taking part in a spiritual diet in which she was
unable to consume any food or drink -- attempting to subside only off of the
sun.
The woman, who was
said to have been in her 50s, decided to undertake the extreme diet after
having watched a controversial Australian documentary on breatharianism. The
2010 documentary, "In the Beginning There Was Light," told the story
of an Indian guru who claimed to have lived off sunlight and without food or
water for 70 years.
The unidentified
woman spent an entire week eating and drinking nothing. According to the
report, she stopped the diet for several weeks but eventually resumed the diet
and lost her life. She was found dead in Jan. 2011 in her home in the eastern
Swiss town of Wolfhalden.
It is unclear why
the paper waited over a year to report the news of the unusual death but Swiss
prosecutors have not opened an investigation into the death and the cause of
death has been ruled as starvation.
Similar cases have
been reported in Austria, Germany, and the U.K.
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