Dying at a spiritual retreat

Three people died recently and 19 others were hospitalized because they took part in a Native American-inspired "holistic" retreat in Arizona. As part of their spiritual quest, the unfortunate participants were left in a sweatbox, presumably to purify their spirit and achieve a higher level of consciousness. It didn't work.

Here is un update from the New York Times. The bastard who ran the retreat charged $9,695 for a weekend experience as a "spiritual warrior," and one of his lackeys had the temerity of saying of the three people who died really "had left their bodies in the sweat lodge and chosen not to come back because they were having so much fun.” Just simply unbelievable.