This all stems from a discussion I had a long time ago with some friends where the idea met with interest.
Lets say that to give others the chance to taste human flesh, someone would volunteer their corpse before death like organ donation. They could specify who gets to eat parts of them etc. Would there be legal obstacles to this?
It just seems like such a shame that no one gets to eat human flesh without murdering people, or unethically stealing parts of a corpse.
backs away slowly
You would need some way of being very, very certain that all people involved were consenting and of sound mind, and that all deaths were due to causes completely unrelated to the other cannibals.
The bit about proving everyone was of sound mind would be especially difficult, given that most people would regard the desire to eat human flesh as itself evidence of an unsound mind.
Well only because it involves killing someone first, if the flesh was donated it stops being so crazy. I would be cool with donating my own body for such, but I’d worry about relatives attempting to interfere.
Let’s discuss this over dinner. At my house. Come alone.
Kuru disease.
Did you see The Book of Eli? Consume at your own risk.
I must say that having heard of what 's involved with raising Kobe beef that my carcass, and certainly those of many others, would enjoy such a designation.
See, I feel this way about Brussels sprouts and haggis.
Flesh is not brain.
I must be strange in that I love Brussels sprouts and Haggis, (espicially authentic Haggis which includes lung, which I believe is totally off the menu in the US)
But what I do balk at is uncastrated boar’s meat! Actually, it doesn’t matter whether it is pig, ram or any other protein, if it is flavoured with testosterone, am not partial.
So we talking about eating women here?
I’ve eaten placenta
The thing many people don’t realize is the meat we eat comes from really young animals - about teenagers. Meat from people who participated in this is likely to be tough and chewy.
Don’t eat me, eat Dredd! He works out!
There are so many things in life that are a shame. It’s a shame that foods that taste good are fattening. It’s a shame that work lasts five days and the weekend only lasts two. It’s a shame that my allergies always kick in when the weather is nice.
But the unavailability of human flesh never . . . never even once . . . struck me as a “shame”!
what if you had a gammy leg?
If we get to the point where we can 3D-print or otherwise synthesize accurate replicas of human meat, without any actual humans involved as sources, will it still be wrong?
Stepping back a little, if we can take a sample of flesh from an existing human volunteer, and put it in a vat and cause it to grow and be harvested, is that wrong?
Stepping hack a little more, what if the source donated a limb or a kidney, but was otherwise alive and healthy? Is that wrong? If so, how does that differ from, say, biting one’s nails?
You don’t have to kill anyone to enter the ethical swamp of cannibalism.
Soylent Green is tasty!
The first thought that came to my mind was that John Prine song, “Please Don’t Bury Me.”
Then I remembered “Stranger in a Strange Land” and I guess the OP just wants to be grokked in all his fullness.
I just checked Mark Biittman’s cookbook on how to cook Everything. He has no recipes for Long Pig, but I’m sure that haggis and brussel sprouts would be awful.
I suggest a nice Chianti with fava beans.
I knew a philapino man who was a young child when the Japanese had invaded the Philipines. He told me that on more than one occassion when they were able to kill a Japanese soldier they prepared and ate him just as they would have done a pig. He claimed that human meat was the best of all meats. I can’t say I believe this guy as he did have some pretty wild stories but he may have been telling the truth. I would much rather see scavengers eat my corpse than other humans.