Would you eat a dead human as a last resort?

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

It's not survival. It's just prolonging the inevitable.

Not necessarily. There's always a chance you could be rescued...the trick is to stay alive long enough for that to happen.

[WernerCD]

Hypothetical situation incoming:

Say you are stranded on a desert island with little to no resources, and you're quickly running out of food. There is another person on the island with you who died of dehydration. Would you eat that person to increase your own chances of surviving? He's already dead; you did not/ do not need to kill him.

Died of dehydration? Would need some way to tenderize the meat... sounds kind of dried out...

[GarGar]

Really hard to say what someone would theoretically do in extreme situations. I don't have experience starving to death but I imagine it makes people do things they wouldn't normally do, including considering cannibalism. No idea what I'd do really.

As for the question of could I live with myself having eaten a dead person...

Well I'd be alive, wouldn't I?

[derpkitteh]

no, i wouldn't. i could live off coconuts well enough. water + food in one.

i mean, the idea of it is just... idk. not something i'd do irl, ever.

i honestly couldn't even bring myself to start cutting pieces off of them. i'd get sick and probably throw up, which wouldn't help anything.

[Shadowferal]

Not necessarily. There's always a chance you could be rescued...the trick is to stay alive long enough for that to happen.

No water means your dead anyway.

Or is this the part where people start adding stuff beyond the OP? Like other animals on the island and edible plants...?

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

no, i wouldn't. i could live off coconuts well enough. water + food in one.

i mean, the idea of it is just... idk. not something i'd do irl, ever.

Easy to say that sitting in comfort...not knowing what it feels like to be dying of starvation.

Get hungry enough...and you'll eat just about anything.

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No water means your dead anyway.

Or is this the part where people start adding stuff beyond the OP? Like other animals on the island and edible plants...?

No, this is the part where I repeat:

Don't worry too much about the situation itself...the question is, if you had to eat a person in order to survive...would you?

[Dartz1979]

Why does it have to be a "he"?

I only eat girls. If you knoooooooooow what I mean.

lol i see what you did there.. hehehe <.<

[Blueobelisk]

Definitely. I don't think it'd even be a "last resort." It's probably more efficient to eat the meat as fresh as possible, so even waiting and living off fresh creatures (which will probably be in limited supply) is a bad idea. I'd eat the person ASAP. It's the only logical thing to do.

[Deleted]

If I'm going to die anyway I'd rather not prolong it.

Id push it in to the sea to force my own hand so I couldn't change my mind later when I started losing my mind.

[BannedForViews]

I would use the dead human as fishing bate and eat the live fish I caught with it. Human flesh isn't very nutritious, especially as the flesh dries out.

[minteK917]

Why not, human is simply pork meat and im not a muslim. If i cant bring myself to do that to live, means i should be the dead one.

[Crillam]

Yeah, ofc like why would you not?

[Skalm]

Hypothetical situation incoming:

Say you are stranded on a desert island with little to no resources, and you're quickly running out of food. There is another person on the island with you who died of dehydration. Would you eat that person to increase your own chances of surviving? He's already dead; you did not/ do not need to kill him.

I would make fish hooks out of their bones, and use their meat as bait to go fishing.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

I would use the dead human as fishing bate and eat the live fish I caught with it. Human flesh isn't very nutritious, especially as the flesh dries out.

Why wouldnt you just cut chunks of him up to use a bait to spearfish if your on an island?

Can't I just use the blood to attract sharks and then make shark tacos?

I'd use his corpse to lure scavenger animals and eat them.

If you're doing that then it isn't a last resort. Let's just assume that everything you've tried has failed and now you're only remaining option is to eat the dead man.

[izayoi80]

A normal size person could easily go without food for weeks and weeks.

No water and you'll be dead before the end of the week. In other words, if you're stuck on a desert island... eating your friend won't save you.

[Deleted]

Yes, and at that point wouldn't just be limited to using the flesh for food (bones, sinew for materials). No eating organs though, because of disruptive potential.

[derpkitteh]

Easy to say that sitting in comfort...not knowing what it feels like to be dying of starvation.

Get hungry enough...and you'll eat just about anything.

it's also easy to realize i can't even kill a spider without feeling guilt and remorse for hours afterwards.

i'd drag them into the water and leave for the other side of the island, i can't handle that shit.

[Wyrt]

If you're doing that then it isn't a last resort. Let's just assume that everything you've tried has failed and now you're only remaining option is to eat the dead man.

But I would have used up all his meat catching sharks for tacos.

[BannedForViews]

If you're doing that then it isn't a last resort. Let's just assume that everything you've tried has failed and now you're only remaining option is to eat the dead man.

Then no, I doubt I would, because what's the point.

If your question were phrased differently though then it would be a yes. For example, imagine you were in a plane crash in the Andes (right??) If someone were dead and I were stuck on a mountain in the stone, yes I would eat them. I will try to stay alive as long as there is hope of remaining alive, but in the situation you are trying to propose, there seems to be no actual future beyond the few extra moments eating a dead person would give me.

[frogger237]

If you're doing that then it isn't a last resort. Let's just assume that everything you've tried has failed and now you're only remaining option is to eat the dead man.

Then no I wouldn't eat him. that way no matter how shitty I have been in my life, people at my funeral can say "well at least he wasn't a cannibal."