Documentary film 'In  the Beginning, There Was Light' gave her the idea

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Published: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 3:30 PM

  Updated: Wednesday, April 25, 2012,

The prosecutors' office in the Swiss canton (state) of Aargau confirmed  Wednesday that the woman died in the town of Wolfhalden in eastern Switzerland.

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.

Tages-Anzeiger says there have been similar cases of self-starvation in  Germany, Britain and Australia.

The prosecutors' office in the Swiss canton (state) of Aargau confirmed  Wednesday that the woman died in January 2011 in the town of Wolfhalden in  eastern Switzerland.

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