General Chat

Sorry gotta go and pick up my step son from school...... cya later

I love life too, I have a wonderful life, but at the expence of my sanity and soul!!!NO WAY!lol

I'd feel extramly guilty if I had to, but under extrame conditions you always do what you have to to live, self presivation and the survival of the fittest.

As a Veggie I don't think I could eat human flesh as I can't eat Animal flesh now I cannot see myself being able to eat a fellow human being under any circumstances. Ideally I would want to wait as long as possible to be rescued & before it gets too bad get someone to kill me rather than suffer a very painful slow death of starvation, the meat eaters would be welcome to chew on my little bits of flesh and grizzle. It's a very difficult question to answer, I was asked the same question at the time when news came of the crash & what had happened. my answer was the same then as it is now. NO. Pat x

Lynda, It was called'alive' and I also watched the film, it made me feel very sick, I have to say!!

just a quick point how many bite your fingernails and eat them and the skin around them as well? I do So long as the skin had no visible long hairs on I think I'd give it a go, thats if I were to survive the accident or event that left me without natural food. wendy the flesheater

Wouldnt by choice, but you can never tell how things will turn out, even the mildest person can turn, if it ment survival I probably would but only in the most extreme situation and only if the victim hadnt been eating garlic, I hate the muck, it permeates everything it touches. A French Marshall once said after ther Russian debacle, 'Buttock of Corporal stewed tender with an onion an a few carrots is delicious'. Well that lets me out, I was a Senior NCO!!!!!lol Len

Roxanne, hope this does not shock you. Years ago I had a discussion about this subject with my son. I told him that I would eat him if he died first, as the survival instinct is so strong, and I hoped that he would eat me if I died first. I am hopeful it will never happen, but it was an interesting ethical dilemma, as is this one... BC

Fred...*thoughtfully.....think some finger food first? BC

Ohhh Len - ypou must be looking forward to dong that - you got so excited you added it twice !!! lol I better keep out of your way ;-)

P.S. The first film version of this tragic event was called 'Survive' in 1976. I remember because me and my family were flying out to Austria for Christmas the next day after we had been to see it at the pictures (good choice of flick NOT) and Mum packed loads of chocolate. I was 15 at the time and only a little bit nervous - lol Gaynor ps - just gave my age away!

If you survive through eating the flesh of a human being you were not meant to survive, and Yes Lynda, it did make me sick to think that people could resort to such barbaric and unnatural way!Sorry but thats my thoughts on the matter:-))))

Fred Id start with the chipolata sausage and boiled eyes... Elaine x :o))

Well firstly every religion , but if your not religious your own morals surely, did you also read that the people that had survived through eating human flesh had huge mental problems after, at the time its a matter of survival its only later that they thought about what they had done. also alot died in that crash because of their refusal to eat human flesh.

I'm not sure I could but until you're put in such a position, I don't think you know what you're capable of. Debby

Just remember to never get on a plane with Lynda LOL! Debby

If I was in such a position, morals would be the last thing on my mind. ...so would be religion...but then religion would most likely comfort the few as they die a slow and painfull death. But having never starved to death before I believe, in the end, the instinct to survive would most probably take over. And eating a dead human peice of flesh would most probably...even though its an unbearable thought, be far bearable than the pain of starving to death. Elaine x ps...how many chops can we make out of all those who prefer to die ?? (only joking folks) Elaine x :o))

or Elaine LOL! Debby

Another interesting thread and quite emphatic answers on both sides of the coin. Good healthy debate. Personally I dont think I could eat another person but like everyone else wouldnt know unless I was in a desperate position. I do wonder though whether the climatic conditions at the time of the plane crash had a bearing on the subject - do I remember this right? the plane crashed on snow and ice? (if its not correct I must be thinking of another occasion). Well, my rambling point is............I thought that the body could survive with WATER for longer than food (of any description) and I therefore imagine that the cold made the hunger worse than the starvation which drove the individuals to taking the extreme action they did. Does that sound logical? Therefore, if you were stranded in the hot wet steamy jungle for instance but had water, could you survive without food for a greater period of time? Jacqui

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