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I would have to say no. You probably couldn't even bring yourself to eat someone until you've been hungry for a very very long time. Either way it is not ok. There is no way of knowing that you wouldn't have been rescued before he would have died. Even if he did die; there is no way of knowing that the two survivors would have been rescued after eating him. Or worse, having eaten him you just prolong your own death and you don't get rescued. Worse than that, you could eat him, only to choke to death on a piece of his flesh.


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I say no. The law would more likely put you in jail for murder. Also If ate him after he died you would more likely be murder charges away. They would saw that you are not a doctor and can not judge he was dead.
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No. For so many reasons they'll have to be counted after I finish listing them.

1) It's imoral to eat *any* animal while still alive.

Those guys who think it's funny to spoon the brains out of a living monkey are just sick...

There's people in south-east asia who like to catch monekys, then stick their head up through a hole in the middle of a table, and slice off the skull cap, and then they smile while they spoon little bites of the screaming monkey's brain out to eat it raw.

They deserve what they're likely to get... which is to get even more sick from prion infection for not having cooked it, which leads us to prions, which cause alzheimer's disease, because prions are to be found in great abundance in raw primate brains (and raw deer brains, and raw squirel brains...)

2) It's unhealthy. If canibalism were legal, human flesh would never pass the scrutiny of heath safety inspectors. We're too high up the food chain, and our tissue is too loaded with heavy metals and dioxins and everything else like that to be safe to eat.

Have you ever wonderd why carnivours like bears and tigers only eat humans as a last resort? It's because they have very good senses of smell, and to them, we smell like we can only smell each other when someone hasn't had a bath in a week, plus they can smell the poisons in our tissue from all the industrial food we eat combined with being at the top of a food chain.

We are just *not* a tasty species. Even vultures gag when faced with a human corpse.

Let me make it more plain... the difference in quality between human flesh compared to that of beef is the same as the quality of difference between human feces and cow manure.

In any case, even if one were to choose to eat human flesh, you're still insane unless you can cook it, which guys in a life raft probably cannot.

3) It's illegal to eat humans, so if you survive, and it's figured out how you survived, then you're going to jail. Period.

But then they'll plead "need to survive", and here's where it shows you just how idiotically stupid those guys were if that one fellow figured he had to sacrifice himelf to be eaten and the others did it:

4) You can use human flesh as fish bait, and you can use the bones as spears and hooks, you can make fishing line out of stretched, dried gut, and you can make hooks out of the teeth.

Raw fish are safer to eat, they definitly taste better than raw mammal, and you can wring slightly salty but potable water that will keep you alive from salt-water fish-flesh wrung out in a rag, made from something like from your t-shirt.

If I was in a boat with some other people at sea, and I knew I was going to die, I'd explain to them how to remove the teeth and turn them into hooks, and how to stretch out and dry the gut to turn it into fishing line, and how to form the bones into speers and fishing poles for holding the lines made from dried gut with hooks made from teeth baited with a piece of the tongue.

After all, that's all *I* was using that body for... something to move around in and use as a vessel for survival. I used the bones and muscles in the arm to kill and eat game, so go ahead and let it continue to be used that way.

I would just ask them to save the skull, and don't do anything weird with the brains.

Wrap the brains in something, like my underwear... you're not going to want to keep my underwear... then let go of it gently into the water, and let it sink away...

... there *might* be some soul-spirit kind'a essense still connected to the brain in some metaphysical way, and I don't want it being shattered and broken apart by you guys hacking it up for bait!

As for the skull... that's for my relatives, so they can have something to do their ceremony around, however they want (bury it, cremate it, I don't care... it's for them).

The rest of that corpus was a biological machine with tools like arms and fingers for survival, so go ahead and use it as biological machinery and tools for survival.
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