This is a very sad story indeed, an acquaintance of mine (a woman) died after a 21 days dry fasting. This woman in her forties had not been able to give birth after a failed marriage. In order solve this problem in her second marriage, went for this fasting program organized by a church (not her church). After the fast she became so weak that she couldn't muster any strength, she died afterwards. Pls be careful when it comes to dry fasting, 21 days without food and water is not adviceable. May her soul RIP.

Who force her to fast? Don't she have a guardians that will admonish and brings her to the solution of the problems? Anyway rip!

Those guardians, I bet, were the same people asking her why she had not given birth and I'm sure they are already advising the man to move on as he is not getting younger!

RIP. Can this be seen as suicide?

Suicide is voluntary! This is just a fasting gone bad!

Fasting is also voluntary even if it goes bad.

thats sad

Religion is an insult to human dignity, poor woman, what a shame. that reminds me of a drama read below,

school boy: "Sir, If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
priest: "No, not if you did not know."
school boy: "Then why did you tell me?"

This is sad and unfortunate but it happens more often than we know. Many people refuse to give their children medicine or seek treatment when they are sick because they believe their prayers will heal them. In the end the children wind up dying and the parents end up in prison. All very unfortunate.

She wasn't well instructed. If you do a long fast, you ought to take water. It help expel poison from the body, the body needs liquid. Lack of food would not have killed her, it's lack of water.

she fast because she was desperate and would do anything to have a child. the people we should be blaming is the church she put her trust in.

Joagbaje:

She wasn't well instructed. If you do a long fast, you ought to take water. It help expel poison from the body, the body needs liquid. Lack of food would not have killed her, it's lack of water.

God bless you sir. Fasting is one of the ancient foundational practice, it enables us to be a better christian, remember Jesus said, this kind goeth not out except by fasting and prayer, it is a pity the woman died. May her soul rest in peace. God2man.

error code 67: brainwashing gone wrong!

she was only a victim of false hopes. I can bet the same church advised her not to seek medical solutions to her inability to conceive, but have "faith" and fast.

people desperately need to understand that it does not work like that.

oluwabamis:

This is a very sad story indeed, an acquaintance of mine (a woman) died after a 21 days dry fasting. This woman in her forties had not been able to give birth after a failed marriage. In order solve this problem in her second marriage, went for this fasting program organized by a church (not her church). After the fast she became so weak that she couldn't muster any strength, she died afterwards. Pls be careful when it comes to dry fasting, 21 days without food and water is not adviceable. May her soul RIP.

Without food and water she lasted 21 days? Hmm that sounds like a miracle in the making.
Anyway, why didn't she or any of her relatives go to a hospital to at least try and find out if there was a problem? What were the people in the church doing when they noticed the excessive weakness knowing she had been fasting?

This is basically due to ignorance.

Buddha said that the cause of suffering is Avidya, also known in english as ignorance.

When is one wrapped up in & covered by blind Ignorance?

Once a certain not very well-known Bhikkhu asked the Blessed Buddha:
Venerable Sir, ignorance, ignorance, is it said! What is ignorance?
Venerable Sir, in what way is one wrapped up in ignorance?
The Blessed Gotama Buddha then pointed out:
Not Knowing Suffering is ignorance;
Not Knowing The Cause of Suffering is ignorance;
Not Knowing The End of Suffering is ignorance;
Not Knowing The Way to end Suffering is ignorance,
All this absence of understanding is ignorance & it is by that blindness,
that dark state of blocked insight, that one is wrapped up in ignorance!
Therefore, Bhikkhu, an effort should be made much of to understand:
Such is Suffering; an effort should be made much of to comprehend:
Such is the Cause of Suffering; an effort should be made so to realize:
Such is the End of Suffering; An effort should be made to penetrate,
recognize, & develop, Such is the Way leading to the End of Suffering,

http://what-buddha-said.net/drops/IV/Ignorance.htm


If the members of her church were not ignorant they would have advised her to pray and then go and do a consultation for IVF.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_fertilisation

The notion that we please God by self imposed renunciation like fasting and similar things is wrong in my perception. God wills that all his creations should bubble with life and supreme joy. Suffering is not the will of God and it is antithetical to the LOVE that is in God and that is GOD. God did not create or will suffering into his creations. In heaven, the spiritual kingdom of God where the will of God reigns, suffering is non-existent. Suffering is present only in material creations including our earth and suffering came into existence as a result of the misapplication of the power of God. Man or rather the spirit that is man has the ability to draw the power of God and use it. He can use the power of God to raise himself to luminous realms of pure joy or he can can apply the power to dig his own grave. The ascent to heaven or the decent to hell lies on how we use the power that God lent to us. Simply put, suffering is a consequence of sin and sin is simply a misapplication of the power of God. The power of God can be likened to the power entrapped in the nucleus of an atom (crude analogy). The atomic power can be used to give millions electricity but it can also be used to produce nuclear bombs.

We suffer because of our own actions or inaction. Sin also encompasses our inability to to listen to the voice of our spirit. Many a suffering including natural disasters can be avoided if we listen to the several warnings that physically invincible servants of God impress on us. Most of us have become spiritual dense that even the severest warnings makes no impression in our day consciousness. In the course of our existence spanning several incarnations on earth and in other material planes, we have misapplied the power of God so much that the fruits of our seeds bring suffering and despair instead of radiant joy. Most people cannot see beyond the present earth-life, hence we ask such questions like "why does God allow bad things to happen to good people", why do some evil men proper? Why are children borne with hereditary diseases? Why is Africa so poor and plagued with HIV, malaria, etc? Why does God allow infectious diseases and cancers to torment his creatures? and many similar questions. It will take several books to answer these questions. The underlying point is that diseases, evil, suffering etc are simply a misapplication of the laws of God in different planes of material creations.

The laws of God are not a set of rules as many think but are the intrinsic properties that is inherent in any creature, specie, creation of God. There is nothing anybody can do to change or annul these intrinsic properties. What we can do is to understand them and use them for the purpose for which the creator designed them for. In this instance we will have a harmonious union of the radiations of God which can only result in joy, inner peace and supreme happiness. If the intrinsic properties of the powers of God are misapplied, the consequence is wrongful and destructive union of radiations that can only result in disease, suffering, evil, etc. If we eat, drink, act, talk and perceive according to the intentions of God, then suffering, diseases and evil will depart from us and this earth will then be a reflection of the spiritual kingdom of God. A healthy body does not need drugs, but an unhealthy body may require drugs to forcibly restore it to health. In a similar vein, it is only a body that has become dense that occasionally requires fasting to restore balance. But the right endeavor should be not to allow the body to become dense in the first place. Eat and drink in moderation and only take from the table of God that which God imbued with the power to nourish our bodies. All excess with food and drink must be avoided. Even in a physical sense, if we eat and drink in moderation and nourish the body with the right mixture of food and drink, the body will become the way God designed it and many an illness will be averted. Fasting brings no spiritual benefit. It is just that in bodies that have become dense, abstinence from food for a short time will give some refinement to the body, permitting it to be more susceptible to the promptings of the spirit. Continuous abstinence will be dangerous because the weakening of the body will also result in weakened emanation from the body making it very possible for such a physical body to be subject to alien influences. In such a state it is very easy to be demonically influenced or be subject to possession by an alien disembodied spirit. Best Wishes.

@OP, sorry about your friend. Have to say though that the act was extreme nonsense upon rubbish. Nobody needs to fast for 21days to get a child(well not from God, perhaps from some idol but not God). You don't even need to fast one day to get a child from God, that's a waste of fast. Fasting is spiritual activity, for spiritual requests. Why use a nuclear bomb to open your car, you end up blowing up your car, yourself and the city.

Too bad,
people should know their limith and not push it to the extreme

This is a lesson for all. Let God direct you not so called MOG to impose somethings on you. Know God and av close relationship with him not your pastors

This is just like the story i read about the woman who fasted dry fasting for 7 days. She was pregnant and had 5 boys and wanted a girl. How did she think the fasting WHILE she was already pregnant would change d sex of the baby? She died sadly.

Joagbaje:

She wasn't well instructed. If you do a long fast, you ought to take water. It help expel poison from the body, the body needs liquid. Lack of food would not have killed her, it's lack of water.

Nice one these. I dont know her financial capabilities but her problem is nothing a good gynecologist cant solve

[color=#000099][/color]RIP, but that was a stupid thing to do 21days SMH!!!! the thing wey religion dey cause for naija nor be small thing!!!!

my problem wit africa, children children children, and if they dnt get it,they wana die havin it, smetimes wen we hav tryin circumstances God can give us d strength to endure, he can (1), either solve d problem, (2), give us d strength to endure it no matter what right down to d end,
D problem wit many in 9ja is that they feel God must solve there temporary problems all d time, if that is d case then why do we still need heavenif God wil always miraculously & instanteneously solve our predicaments when ever we want him to, no matter how we look @ it d life we live now in this present world is temporary, we cn never hav it all health wise,financial wise,and what have u, we cnt hav unlimited breakthroughs in this short lived world, even d apostles had to cope wit certain ailments until they died as matrys, and most times we allow our problems overwhelm us that we forget dat we still hav enough to share in Gods work, we get overly anxious,which Jesus never encouraged, if d apostles continued preachin with sicknesses & defects what stops us from doin d same in these end times filled wit uncertainties, nigerians dont mistake God for a magician or a gini, many hav misplaced faith and thoughts, now d woman is dead just tryin to get a child, who wuld we blameGod or d woman, make ona dey hear word oooo,

God bless you sir. Fasting is one of the ancient foundational practice, it enables us to be a better christian, remember Jesus said, this kind goeth not out except by fasting and prayer, it is a pity the woman died. May her soul rest in peace. God2man.

While you can pray to God for a child , fasting  like she did, is technically the wrong approach to solving fertility problems. Starvation (and tht was the case for this lady) , induces the body to conserve whatever little energy there is and to avoid burdens such as pregnancy. Ovulation and menstruation stop with starvation, women have a temporary menopause to preserve the body and pregnany is aborted.

Please consider other forrms of worship when faced with such issues- how about feeding the poor or just asking God sincerely and also seing a Doctor?

God bless you sir. Fasting is one of the ancient foundational practice, it enables us to be a better christian, remember Jesus said, this kind goeth not out except by fasting and prayer, it is a pity the woman died. May her soul rest in peace. God2man.

While you can pray to God for a child , fasting  like she did, is technically the wrong approach to solving fertility problems. Starvation (and that was the cause of death for this lady) , induces the body to conserve whatever little energy there is and to avoid burdens such as pregnancy. Ovulation and menstruation stop with starvation, women have a temporary menopause to preserve the body and any pregnany is aborted.

Please consider other forrms of worship when faced with such issues- how about feeding the poor or just asking God sincerely and also seing a Doctor?

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This is just like the story i read about the woman who fasted dry fasting for 7 days. She was pregnant and had 5 boys and wanted a girl. How did she think the fasting WHILE she was already pregnant would change d sex of the baby? She died sadly.

SMH. this one even had 5 and was still bent on literally killing herself? guess she got what she wanted.

Pretty sad.

why is it that this society pressurizes our women into doing strange things.
God is the only giver of good gifts and no amount of pressuring oneself can change WHAT GOD HAS MADE UP HIS MIND TO DO!

story so fake as the poster

Poor thing.
God will reward her.
After all. . . . in her father's house, there are many mansions of fruits of the womb dia.

Ile Baba E, Lo Keeeeeee!!!!!