Editing Jasmuheen (section)

=== Deaths of followers ===
{{asof|2012}}, five deaths had been directly linked to breatharianism and Jasmuheen's publications.<ref name="3Deaths">{{cite news | first = Tom | last = Walker |author2=Judith O'Reilly | title = Three deaths linked to 'living on air' cult | work=[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]] | publisher = (London) | date = 26 September 1999 }}</ref><ref name="heraldsun.com.au">{{cite news |title=Swiss woman starves to death on daylight diet |url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/swiss-woman-starved-to-death-on-daylight-diet/story-e6frf7lf-1226339082591 |newspaper=[[Herald Sun]] |date=26 April 2012 |access-date=26 April 2012}} "This was the fourth known death linked to breatharianism and Jasmuheen's books since the practice emerged in the early 90s."</ref> Jasmuheen has denied any responsibility for the deaths.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medicalexposedownloads.com/PDF/breatharian.pdf|title=Breatharians|website=medicalexposedownloads.com|access-date=27 June 2018|archive-date=27 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627090819/https://medicalexposedownloads.com/PDF/breatharian.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Lani Marcia Roslyn Morris, a 53-year-old [[Melbourne]] resident, died in 1999 while attempting the breatharian "diet" advocated by Jasmuheen. Jim Vadim Pesnak, 63, and his wife Eugenia, 60, were jailed for six years and two years, respectively, on charges of manslaughter for their involvement in the death of Morris. Pesnak had delayed seeking medical attention.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sands|first=Judy|title=Prison for air cult disciples|newspaper=The Courier-Mail|date=27 November 1999}}</ref> Referring to this case, Jasmuheen commented that Morris's practice of inedia perhaps was "not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation".<ref name="3Deaths"/>

Jasmuheen offered similar defence in response to the death of Verity Linn, who died of [[hypothermia]] and [[dehydration]] with lack of nutrition while practising inedia in [[Scotland]], her diary mentioning Jasmuheen's teachings. Linn's body was found in a [[tent]].<ref name="The Herald">{{cite news | url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12248399.Cult_woman_did_not_starve_to_death/ | title="Cult woman did not starve to death" | work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]|location=Glasgow |date=23 September 1999 | access-date=7 February 2018}}</ref><ref name="bbc">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/453661.stm | title=Scotland: "woman starved herself to death" | publisher=[[BBC]] |date=6 April 2000 | access-date =10 October 2008}}</ref> In 2012, it was reported that a [[Swiss people|Swiss]] woman died of starvation after having attempted to survive purely on light, as taught in one of Jasmuheen's books.<ref name="heraldsun.com.au"/> In 2017, a [[Dutch people|Dutch]] woman living in a household of four practitioners of breatharianism inspired by Jasmuheen<ref name="contactmuziek">{{cite web | url=http://www.contactmuziek.nl/lichtvoeding.html | title=Contact & Muziek: Lichtvoeding | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612223030/http://www.contactmuziek.nl/lichtvoeding.html | archive-date=12 June 2017 | access-date=13 June 2017 | url-status=dead }}</ref> died under mysterious circumstances. The three remaining members of the household are suspected of withholding the malnourished woman adequate medical care.<ref name="NRC">{{cite news | url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/06/12/om-onderzoekt-sterfgeval-in-woongroep-die-voeding-afzweert-a1562695 | title=OM onderzoekt sterfgeval in woongroep die voeding afzweert | newspaper = NRC Handelsblad | location = Amsterdam | last = van der Veen | first = Casper | date=12 June 2017 | access-date=13 June 2017}}</ref>

In 1999, Michelle Shirley, spokeswoman for the [[Cult Information Centre]], told the BBC that the centre had been contacted five times in the previous 12 months by concerned friends and family members of Breatharians and that "although Breatharianism is not strictly a cult, the centre has been monitoring its activities". She added, "We are particularly concerned about any implication that if it doesn't work, it is the person's fault. That implies there is nothing wrong with the Breatharians' teachings."<ref name="BBC 1999"/>

In the end of 2017, 22-year-old [[Germans|German]] citizen Finn Bogumil died on the [[Caribbean]] island of [[Dominica]], reportedly of fasting. According to witnesses, he was not eating or drinking for several days ahead of his death, and had told friends and family members of his plans to only live off of sunlight.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.focus.de/gesundheit/news/lichtnahrung-22-jaehriger-deutscher-stirbt-wegen-esoterischer-lebensweise_id_10446534.html|title=Deutscher wollte sich offenbar von Licht ernähren – jetzt ist er tot|date=2019-03-15|website=FOCUS Online|language=de|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref> German news station [[Norddeutscher Rundfunk|NDR]] also released a documentary about this case in March 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama_die_reporter/Die-Lichtnahrung,panorama8792.html|title=Die Lichtnahrung|date=2019-03-12|work=Panorama – die Reporter|access-date=2019-05-17}}</ref>

Jasmuheen has written that "If you haven't found the light that will nourish you, you may have the intention to become a breatharian, but in fact you may be putting yourself through food deprivation. There is one known case where a person died when trying to become a breatharian."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/stars3/breathe_light/warnings.html|title = Warnings – when to cancel!}}</ref>