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

Would you eat your deceased best friend to survive?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 76.5%

  • No

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Total voters
    17
I'd rather die not having eaten my friends carcass, than die having eaten it.
I know it's just meat, and not really my friend anymore... but that just seems wrong to the core to me.
 
No, that would be idiotic. Our bodies can not consume raw meat and put it too good use. Eating your friend would probably just make you sick as hell, throw up every were and dehydrate faster.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
No, that would be idiotic. Our bodies can not consume raw meat and put it too good use. Eating your friend would probably just make you sick as hell, throw up every were and dehydrate faster.
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True, starving to death and not giving it a fighter's chance is a much better option.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
No, that would be idiotic. Our bodies can not consume raw meat and put it too good use. Eating your friend would probably just make you sick as hell, throw up every were and dehydrate faster.
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I'd make fillets and lay them out on rocks so the sun could cook them. While I was waiting for that I'd search the area for plants I could use as seasoning and evaporate some sea water so I could salt it down. Then I'd light some candles (in my brain) and sit down to the feast.
 
The last time I was in this position, I killed my best friend and ate him. I'd gladly do it again. Oddly, no one wants to be my best friend anymore.
 
Gameface said:
I'd make fillets and lay them out on rocks so the sun could cook them. While I was waiting for that I'd search the area for plants I could use as seasoning and evaporate some sea water so I could salt it down. Then I'd light some candles (in my brain) and sit down to the feast.
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I guess that could theoretically work if it was hot enough? Also, Im guessing there are no plants around because if their were there would probably also be trees, which then could be used to make actual fire with.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
By not attempting to eat your friend you would survive longer. Surviving longer = more time for someone to find you.
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It felt to me that it was implied that you'd been there a while, say two weeks, with no hope in sight, nor much vegetation on which to survive. Otherwise your friend would likely not be dead and you'd likely not be starving.
 
SalmonHobo said:
It felt to me that it was implied that you'd been there a while, say two weeks, with no hope in sight, nor much vegetation on which to survive. Otherwise your friend would likely not be dead and you'd likely not be starving.
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Well the friend could have died on the safety raft floating to the deserted Island (most common way these things happen I presume).

Nonetheless, eating your friend is still a terrible idea if the meat is not cooked properly. It will only make dying that much more unpleasant and painful.
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
Well the friend could have died on the safety raft floating to the deserted Island (most common way these things happen I presume).

Nonetheless, eating your friend is still a terrible idea if the meat is not cooked properly. It will only make dying that much more unpleasant and painful.
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Well have fun dying. I'll eat that **** and have a puncher's chance. Not a fighter's chance. I made that phrase up.
 
Well there isn't a single thing I WOULDN'T do for life. Life is precious, it revolves around a single key: that we fight to survive. If I have to eat another human being to do it, so be it. If I have to murder, brush the dust off my enemies' sachel, so be it. I'm ready for the consequences. I'm ready for what the glory be, glory be is like when it happens from above t
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
No, that would be idiotic. Our bodies can not consume raw meat and put it too good use. Eating your friend would probably just make you sick as hell, throw up every were and dehydrate faster.
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Such as sushi, rare beef, oysters, carpaccio, tartare, etc. Raw meat would be fine in limited amounts to keep you alive for quite a while. That said, who said you couldn't dry the meat in the sun then eat it.

I say, eat him.
 
It's really hard to put yourself in a position so horrific, but I like to think I could/would.
 
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.
 
Yes, because if they were my best friend they would want me to eat them in order to save myself.
 
One of my areas on my mission was Curico, Chile. It was about 30 miles from where the plane crashed that they eventually made the film "Alive" about. I would like to think I'm a survivor and I would eat my friend to stay alive. Better to do something gross and live than not and die. I'm sure my family would be thankful for it.
 
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