I know SOME of you would, you sexually depraved bastards.
But I mean if you were stranded like in that air crash movie “Alive” or what ever the name of it was…and others had already died and were perserved in the snow, would you partake of a little human flesh to stay alive? If so, what if any moral complications would you have with eating another human being?
Me? Of course one is never sure what one would do until that moment, but it’s for sure that I wouldn’t want to die. The moral implications would have to wait until later.
Sooo I guess for myself it would be “pass me a leg.”
I agree. Survival would be the top of my list.
Hell, if it helped me survive till rescued I could always use the royalties from the story to pay for therapy if I needed it after the fact.
I have to agree with you aha . While it wouldn’t be my preferred food , if my life depended on it and there was some fresh meat available from a dead person I would eat it . I would have to live with the stigma and guilt after the fact but at the time I am sure I would partake(sp.?) .
To stay alive of course I would. I would also hope that if I was one who had died that someone would munch me to stay alive. I think, however, after being found I would have a great deal of sorrow and regret over what I had to do. I guess meat is meat… no matter what animal it comes from… especially if your on the verge of starvation.
What part would I start on? I guess the thigh…?
I think the real question would be…would you kill someone for food if on the brink of starvation? What if the person was sick or injured?
I remember once in highschool my teacher was talking about the real “Alive” and how the people said that the rear end was the best part. I guess if I was starving I would say past the salt and chow down too.
Why would you eat a sick person anyway? I mean, does cooking really kill everything? How about viruses? I’d think twice about eating a drug user, even if he was clean for the moment. About killing someone to eat them: I believe that’s called homicide, no matter how you cut it (pun intended after the fact). In all cases where someone’s actually gotten away with cannibalism, the eaten has been dead of other causes. Perhaps you could avoid the chair if you could prove extenuating circumstances, but 25 years goes slowly in a Federal ass-rape prison.
Yeah, I agree, but most people won’t come to terms with the fact.
I’ve had this discussion before, and someone said that
“I could never eat another person. I couldn’t even bring myself to eat my guinea pigs, they’re so cute–I’d rather die first.” (paraphrase. I’m not exaggerating)
I don’t think it’s very easy for us Americans to understand real starvation, desperate hunger.
I think, placed in that situation, everyone would do what they could to survive, so long as it didn’t involve actually killing off living people to eat. And I think that would happen, too.
It’s a short story by Stephen King. A guy gets stranded on a completely barren island, and resorts to eating parts of HIMSELF to stay alive. Fricking horrifying.
When you’re dead, you’re just so much protein and gravy.
Even if you believe in a soul, it’s not in the body.
(We were talking about dead people, right, not just “getting a little extra in bed”)
I think most people, when just asked the question, don’t like the idea of eating another human being, but if they were put into the situation, most would resort to cannibalism to survive. Even though moral/societal questions would always arise in this kind of situation, the human animal will still do what it needs to do to survive.
Would I do it? With reluctance, and after all other options have been researched, I would. Scary part about it, though, is with my training, I’d be able to break down a body for proper cooking, and know the best ways to cook different parts (it was a running joke during the butchering/meat cooking classes). Best parts would be the muscles around the lower spine & hips–they would be the most tender (these would also be known as tenderloins in other animals).
burblooks around …you mean for survival only??? …damnit I hate it when fingernails get stuck between my teeth. I just love fingers in bbq sauce, taste just like buffalo wings. I mean, who could resist? when you cook them the fingers even curl as if to say “come here… eat me.”
I’ve heard it said that humans taste like pork. I would think thats a good guess as we are both omnivores.
I’ve also heard many people say," I would never kill/eat people/bambi/dog/pig." But if your remember the USA didn’t start a food stamp program until the later 1960s. I live in an area of the country where there were many very poor people before the welfare state. (my mother was the child of sharecroppers) Try going without food for a few days, or even without meat for a month then answer the question.
My uncle once told me a story from his childhood. The family hadn’t had any meat for many days, and he complained to his father (my grandfather) about it. My grandfather said, “See that rabbit hole over there. Kill that rabbit, and we will have meat for supper tonite.” My uncle said he started to cry…three days later rabbit stew.
I posed a similar question to my friends a few months ago while we were eating lunch. I asked, “If you were stranded on a mountain/desert island/whatever with your pet cat and your best friend and no other source of food, which would you kill and eat first?”
They all gave me a funny look and claimed they’d kill neither, they’d rather starve. Fools.
The tough part for me would be deciding between my beloved kitty cat and my best friend. I really love my cat, damn it.
