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Swiss woman dies following Indian guru’s `sunlight only` diet | A Swiss woman starved to death after embarking on a spiritual journey which involved giving up food and water and attempting to exist on nothing but sunlight. The woman, who was in her fifties, apparently got the idea after watching
the documentary film ‘In the Beginning, There Was Light’ which features an Indian
guru who claims to not have eaten anything in 70 years. According to the Zurich
newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, the unnamed woman decided to follow the radical fast
in 2010. The woman died in January 2011 in the town of Wolfhalden in eastern Switzerland
, the prosecutors’ office in the Swiss canton of Aargau confirmed on Wednesday.
Spokeswoman Jennifer Rissi said prosecutors haven’t opened a criminal investigation
over the woman’s death, The Daily Mail reported. Followers of the cult Breatharianism
believe that the energy they save on digesting food and drink can be transformed
into physical, emotional and spiritual energy. The paper claimed there have been
similar cases of self-starvation in Germany , Britain and Australia . In 1999,
Australian-born Verity Linn, 49, was found dead in a remote part of the Scottish
Highlands after attempting a 21-day fast. Excerpts from her diary showed she was
refusing to eat or drink in the belief it would ‘spiritually cleanse’ her body
and ‘recharge her both physically and mentally.’ In a separate incident a woman
died in an Australian hospital after attempting a 21-day fast.
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