Sweat Lodge Deaths

1980 Death in California in Archie Fire Lame Deer's 'Vision Quest'

Diabetic Dies During Indian Rite

1993 Death in Texas

1996 Death in the United Kingdom

2002: Deaths in Redding, California

Skeptics Dictionary: 2 people die trying to purify themselves

Cause of Woman’s Death in Sweat Lodge Sought Redding.com June 26, 2002

2 Seeking Spiritual Enlightenment Die in New-Age Sweat Lodge from the San FranciscoChronicle Staff Writers Thursday, June 27, 2002

Spiritual Path Leads To Tragedy

San Francisco ChronicleTwo Die in Sweat Lodge

2003: Death in New South Wales

2004: Deaths in Australia

De-Tox in Sweat Lodge Kills 37 year old (S.C.A.M.) Fighting Spurious Complementary and Alternative Medicine This is not the first time a sweat lodge has killed an Australian

Melbourn Man Dies in Sweat Lodge RitualReligion News Blog November 4, 2004

Man Dies During Sweat Lodge Ritual ABC Online November 5, 2004

Tragic End to Secred Ritual The Age November 5, 2004

Bore Water Possible Cause in Sweat Lodge Death

To Sweat Or Not To Sweat: A Look at the Latest Tragedy> ABC North and West SA

Man Dies During Native American Ritual Independent Online November 4, 2004

Sweat Lodge Man’s Condition Improves ABC Online Australia November 4, 2004

Coroner to Investigate Sweat Lodge Death ABC online News November 4, 2004

Survivor Zoned Out During Ritual The Townsville Bulletin November 4, 2004

2008 Death in Wilderness Rite's 'Vision Quest'

Reverend Karen Blomberg dies in Fraudulent Vision Quest She died July 21, 2008 of asphyxiation due to a pulmonary embolism while on a spiritual retreat near the Sierra Nevada mountains in California.

2009: First Recorded Death of an Indigenous Person

Lawrence Catholiquea 52-year-old First Nation's man froma remote fly-in Chipewyan community was found dead in his sweat lodge on February 9, 2009