You're on a desert island, starving, & your best friend lies dead but not diseased.

[Duck Rodgers]

My belief in God affords me the ability to not really go over the top in preventing my own death, so I personally wouldn't do that. I'd just say take me big fella, help me find another route to sustain myself, or send help. At least that is how I feel right now. Maybe after I'm married and have kids or something, I'll have an attachment here that I desperately at all costs would render me in panic survival mode.

 

[YB85]

I would definitely struggle with it and by the time I decided what to do, the corpse would not be edible. Eating your friend does not guarantee long term survival.

For those of you survivalists who said yes, ratchet up the dilemma: It's not your best friend, it's your spouse/significant other. Now what?

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I would definitely struggle with it and by the time I decided what to do, the corpse would not be edible. Eating your friend does not guarantee long term survival.

For those of you survivalists who said yes, ratchet up the dilemma: It's not your best friend, it's your spouse/significant other. Now what?

Even better. Ms Serp's stacked so her meat would be much tastier.

 

[sirkickyass]

I'd definitely kill myself before I ever got that hungry.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I'd definitely kill myself before I ever got that hungry.

There's gotta be a good lawyer joke in here somewhere.

 

[LogGrad98]

I would definitely struggle with it and by the time I decided what to do, the corpse would not be edible. Eating your friend does not guarantee long term survival.

For those of you survivalists who said yes, ratchet up the dilemma: It's not your best friend, it's your spouse/significant other. Now what?

That is a good twist. Really I think you would have to be fairly certain of some kind of rescue at some point. If there was simply no hope, or you deemed the likelihood of rescue to be very slim, then it would probably change the way this question is answered.

If I thought there was a solid likelihood of rescue within a few weeks, I think I would be able to eat either one. My spouse would want me to so our kids did not have to lose both parents, as I would wish of her. My best friend would also, I would think, want me to use his body for survival if it meant that only one of our families had to lose a loved one, rather than both just because the means of survival was unpalatable. That would be my wish too, if I were the one who had died. At that point it is no longer a friend or loved one, it is a carcass.

If it means the possibility that the survivors back on the mainland or whatever did not have to suffer twice the loss then I think it would have to be considered a viable option. Imo at least.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

^

Would you tell your kids and the media how you were able to stay alive and what happened to mommy?

 

[LogGrad98]

^

Would you tell your kids and the media how you were able to stay alive and what happened to mommy?

I think I would. Would it be better for the kids to go parentless entirely than to live with the understanding that daddy or mommy ate the other one to survive so they could be there to raise the kids?

 

[bigb]

That is a good twist. Really I think you would have to be fairly certain of some kind of rescue at some point. If there was simply no hope, or you deemed the likelihood of rescue to be very slim, then it would probably change the way this question is answered.

If I thought there was a solid likelihood of rescue within a few weeks, I think I would be able to eat either one. My spouse would want me to so our kids did not have to lose both parents, as I would wish of her. My best friend would also, I would think, want me to use his body for survival if it meant that only one of our families had to lose a loved one, rather than both just because the means of survival was unpalatable. That would be my wish too, if I were the one who had died. At that point it is no longer a friend or loved one, it is a carcass.

If it means the possibility that the survivors back on the mainland or whatever did not have to suffer twice the loss then I think it would have to be considered a viable option. Imo at least.

That's pretty much the way I feel. Eating another human is deplorable, but I think all of us have such a survival instinct we would practically have to do it. Just ask the Donnor Party. If I were in this situation (with either a friend or my wife) and I died first, I would want to be eaten. Anything I could do to give my loved one a chance is good by me. Like log said here, if fewer people have to suffer the heartache, why not give it a shot?

^

Would you tell your kids and the media how you were able to stay alive and what happened to mommy?

That's a tough one. If you tell the media, your kids will find out. I think it would depend on the kids. Personally, I wouldn't tell my kids at this stage of the game. My oldest is 7 and she just simply wouldn't understand. If they were older, I would have to reevaluate and think about them and their personalities, etc.

 

[jazz_fanatic]

Hehehe

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I think I would. Would it be better for the kids to go parentless entirely than to live with the understanding that daddy or mommy ate the other one to survive so they could be there to raise the kids?

Or you could eat mommy and lie to them?

 

[GVC]

Hehehe

Ann would gobble up the still-warm body without thinking twice. This much is clear.

 

[Jazz Spazz]

I would make a raft out of my friend and try to float to safety. Also, I would kill him long before we started starving. Probably on the first day, so he wouldn't have a chance to get the idea of killing me.

Even better. Ms Serp's stacked so her meat would be much tastier.

If we are going to continue on this unlikely idea, this could be a viable option.

If we combine these two options it just might work. If she's "stacked", they probably aren't real and will give the raft idea a fighting chance of success.

 

[Scat]

Soak the Homosteaks in the ocean for a bit so that they are well salted and then hang them to dry in the sun. The salt in the ocean is the best preservative you have.

 

[TroutBum]

Soak the Homosteaks in the ocean for a bit so that they are well salted and then hang them to dry in the sun. The salt in the ocean is the best preservative you have.

Do I dare ask what a "****steak" is?

FWIW, I would totally eat my wife/friend/dog/neighbor/boss. I wouldn't really even need an excuse. I mean really, how many people can actually brag about eating someone else?

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

Do I dare ask what a "****steak" is?

FWIW, I would totally eat my wife/friend/dog/neighbor/boss. I wouldn't really even need an excuse. I mean really, how many people can actually brag about eating someone else?

Future Councilman Dave Ballou everyone.

 

[LogGrad98]

Future Councilman Dave Ballou everyone.

Hey the dude has solutions at least. And is decisive.

 

[Archie Moses]

Do I dare ask what a "****steak" is?

FWIW, I would totally eat my wife/friend/dog/neighbor/boss. I wouldn't really even need an excuse. I mean really, how many people can actually brag about eating someone else?

1. Jeffrey Dohmmer.
2. Hannibal
3. The Donner Party
4. The Uruguay soccer team.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

1. Jeffrey Dohmmer

Way to butcher his name worse than he did his victims.

 

[Scat]

Do I dare ask what a "****steak" is?

Homosteak as in a cut of meat from a Homo sapiens... Geez, let your mind come up for air from the sewer occasionally. I hate to see what you'd do with Homo erectus...