Friends tell Russian media Samsonova had not consumed any water for six years before her death, and was refusing to get medical help after she was bedbound.
    • czech@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      that was made worse by her restrictive diet.

      Would it have killed her if:

      One friend told 116.ru: "Ms Samsonova’s idle starvation was causing her to melt before our eyes, but she believed everything was fine.

      Seems similar to dying in a car crash because you didn’t wear seat-belt. By not taking basic precautions her body wasn’t prepared to survive something that many others can. To be fair- the survival rate for untreated cholera is only around 40% I just don’t think her starting point of “slow starvation” was doing her any favors.