I know urine is generally sterile and won’t cause problems if ingested. If someone literally eats shit, will they die??
It’s actually a simple and effective treatment for some with lower intestinal issues, as a means of providing necessary digestive flora, or fauna. If you’re really interested I can look for more information.
The material is ingested as a pellet, and is effective in a very short period of time, apparently.
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I am not a doctor, but I would guess that it would be non-lethal the vast, vast majority of the time. (Since you asked about dying.) It would most likely make you sick or feel intensely sick, though.
And of course you’ll get a new nickname.
There’s a damn good reason we treat public water and why raw sewage is considered a serious health risk. There are all kinds of nasty pathogens in fecal matter from E. Coli and salmonella to rotovirus and norovirus. Ingestion of human feces pathogenic organisms are responsible for very serious infectious diseases such as cholera and dysentery, both of which kill many people every year. Don’t eat shit. It’s bad for you.
Not such a great idea. The poo pellets they give folks with bowel issues are specially treated and prepared from special poop donors.
“Duncan the bridgebuilder!”
ATTENTION: Are you currently donating sperm, but looking for an even easier way to earn beer money?
Are laxatives deductible as a business expense?
One of my favorite weird books is Dan Sabbath and Mandel Hall’s End Product: The First Taboo, because it’s – as far as I know – the first non-technical, non-specialist book on this deeply verboten topic. Their verdict is that no, you won’t die from this, and they cite cases. You don’t even necessarily get sick, although feces do contain bacteria.
There’s also the charming topic of coprophagia – which includes those who do this as a sexual kink. The less I know about this, the better. But presumably practitioners don’t die of it.
This. If the…donor is free of infectious diseases, then you aren’t going to catch any of those diseases.
Contrast this with exposure to raw sewage generated by a large population containing unknown disease vectors, and you’re much more likely to get sick.
I saw them perform live at the sewage treatment plant.
They were crappy.
It’s a mystery why coprophagia isn’t more popular as an alternative health practice, seeing how many people go in for urine-drinking. Maybe the breath mint expenses are too high.
Cecil writes about everything. (When searching for this, I got ad links to “Coprophagia 25% off” and “Get coprophagia now.” :rolleyes: )
For a real like practitioner, google G.G. Allin. I will NOT provide a link, but a warning: Prepare to be totally grossed out on the highest level possible.
It depends on whether the donor is an employee or self-employed.
The new tax bill eliminated all employee business expense deductions, so the answer is “no” if the donor is an employee (as of 2018).
I would say “yes” if the donor is self-employed. I base this on the findings of the Tax Court in Green v Commissioner 74 T.C. 1229 (1980).
Margaret Green had a rare blood type and frequently sold her plasma. On her 1976 tax return “Petitioner claimed as business-expense deductions amounts allegedly spent for medical insurance premiums, special drugs, high protein diet foods, and transportation to and from the laboratory where petitioner donated her plasma. Petitioner also claimed as a business deduction a depletion allowance for certain minerals and antibodies in her blood.”
The Tax Court denied the deduction for health insurance and the depletion allowance as business expenses (but it did allow the normal itemized deduction for health insurance). It allowed all the other deductions, except that it allowed a reduced deduction for the special foods.
The Wikipedia account of his death and funeral is fascinating. There are many strange people in the world
Since the main concern would be the spread of infectious diseases would it be safe to eat your own, under the assumption that any microbes in there would already be part of your gut fauna? Don’t worry I have no intention/desire to try this.
You know who else had coprophagia?
Not sure of the name, but they were always grinning.