A difficult choice---what would you do to survive?

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I am watching the movie "Alive" about the Chile Rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes leaving them stranded for 72 days. The resorted to canabalizing their dead to survive. I had forgotten the moral dilemma they faced, and the prayer and agony they went through before making the choice. I do remember the awful things some did to them after their return because of what they did.
What would YOU do to survive? Could you do what they did? How would your faith play into the decision? I know an argument some made was when you die, the soul leaves the body, and what is left is the vessel.
I think it would be a hard choice for me to make, but if it meant survival until rescue then I would make the choice.


 

I would not eat another human's flesh. Right now I am trying to be more vegetarian. If my life depended on it I would die rather than eat a human.
 
These things are tough.

If I was alone I would probably find another way to survive or die.

If it was a group decision I would probably participate.

Strange huh!
 
I recall from history that basically the same thing happened back in the winter of 1846-47 in California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party

Hopefully none of us here will ever have to make that decision but if faced with either starving to death or eating human flesh there is no doubt that I'd resort to cannibalization.......it's all about surviving.
 
I agree, that's something where you'd have to be living the experience in real time to know what you would do, most of us have a strong will to survive.
 
jujube said:
I have no idea what I'd do in that case. I don't think anyone knows until they are faced with a circumstance like this (or the Donner Expedition, for instance).

I guess a lot depends on how strong is your will to live and what you have to live for.
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I agree that most of us don't REALLY know what we'd do in an awful situation like that.
 
Did you hear about the cannibal who arrived late for a dinner party?

He got the cold shoulder.

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What did the cannibal give his wife for Valentine's Day?

A box of Farmer's Fannies.

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Two cannibals are eating a clown. One looks up and asks, "Hey, does this guy taste funny to you?"

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A cannibal says to his wife, "You know, I really hate your mother!"

His wife says, "That's OK, dear.....just eat the rice."
 
Hi , given a choice I would choose to die rather than do it. The choice would be easy. I would however pray for the strength needed not to do it and would hope it would be one prayer that would be answered so I guess I would be praying for God to give me the strength needed to die. I do believe though that this is a choice each of us must make and one should not be punished either emotionally or physically for one's choice as it would be incredibly difficult.
 
I don't believe in the existence of a god. But supposing you did and then believed that when you died, your soul left your body - leaving an empty shell. Surely in that case, you are not eating a person ?

Consider also those who donate organs from their body when they die, so that others can live. Is this so much different from being eaten?

Debodun is correct... "You'd be surprised what you could eat if you were starving to death."
 
Captain Lightning that is how I feel about a dead body. As the remains of a human being it is to be respected but it is just an empty shell as far as I am concerned.

That said it would be very difficult for me to partake of human flesh, even to save my life but paradoxically I would urge someone who really needed the nourishment to eat but only as the very last resort.

My own body? I absolve anyone in extreme need to save themselves by partaking of my body as long as they do it with respect and gratitude.
 
There are several references in the Bible to cannibalism but none actually say you cannot eat it. It is considered such an evil thing to do that it is used as a curse eg if you do something so wrong the curse may be that your children may be consumed. and by using the curse such a fashion only enforces the evilness of the act. God also instructed us that we are distinct from all the animals Add to that the instruction from God that we should not shed human blood one can see how the devout Catholics in the Andes would feel . I would chose death as did some of survivors of the plane crash.
 
In the case of the Andes survivors, the then Pope granted them dispensation and absolved them from all guilt.
It is a very different scenario to one where one member of the group is killed by the others so that he may be consumed.
There have been any number of these cases recorded over the years.
The sin here is the murder, not the cannibalism although the two are pretty much inseparable.
 
In many places one may be surprised to find it is not illegal to eat human flesh, it is o course illegao to murder to get the body to eat but the act itself is not illegal in many countries, I believe England is one and I am fairly certain t is the same insome parts of the US. You may be charged with desecrating a corpse though
 

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